Rewards

joolsmd
joolsmd Posts: 375 Member
edited November 13 in Motivation and Support
What non-food rewards do you give yourselves (if you do!) for scale victories and non scale victories.

I'm planning on getting some new workout leggings for my next one. Proper ones that won't bag and knee!

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  • pippacain74
    pippacain74 Posts: 11
    Clothes clothes clothes !
  • Train4Foodz
    Train4Foodz Posts: 4,298 Member
    I'm currently designing a new tattoo (well, having one designed for me), this was always planned as my reward from day one for reaching the goals I originally set out to reach.
    Although I'm still reaching new goals, I've reached all my original ones and as such. As soon as it's designed I'm having it inked!
  • joolsmd
    joolsmd Posts: 375 Member
    I do like tattoos but I think I'll save that as a reward for a big loss! :D
  • karen_fitzgibbon
    karen_fitzgibbon Posts: 736 Member
    edited February 2015
    I've got a 3/4 sleeve tattoo design waiting for me. As soon as I lose 10kgs I'm going in to get it done.
    With each goal I reach, I'll get another one :smiley:
  • SeriouslySta
    SeriouslySta Posts: 458 Member
    I do lots of small goals, and small rewards for reaching them.
    I have goals for steps, weight loss, fitness/exercise, etc. Usually the rewards really are small - a bottle of nail polish, new workout socks - but for some things (ones that really seem like a reach) the rewards are larger. Oh! and sometimes it might be as simple as taking the time to make a little something special - like a bag to carry my healthy snacks in, when I am on the road.

    I try to make the rewards at least somewhat related to how I earned them (or at least appropriately motivating).
    So, for a fitness reward, I might have some thing for dance class, or new equipment (leash for the dog?), or something.
    For steps, it's foot-related (and I promise, it totally is motivating to use new workout socks, or running shoes - or to look down at freshly painted toenails!)
    For weight loss goals, I might have a small clothing accessory or something.

    It's silly, I suppose, but it totally works for me.

    For each of the little goals, I have the date started (or if it 'activates' after something else - like "10,000 steps for 31 days straight" came into effect after "10,000 steps for two weeks straight").
    Then there's the goal itself.
    Then a strategy I will try, to help me achieve the goal.
    A reward.
    A follow-on action.

    When I achieve the goal, I note that date, then also note the date when I did the reward (I try to do them asap, so that they don't just become another chore!) I also comment on the strategy: Whether it worked, what I might try some other time, whatever.

    So, that 10,000 steps for two weeks straight was a biggie for me!
    Here is what that goal might have looked like:
    1.29.15 (start: after 7500 steps 5 times in a row)
    10,000 steps, 14 days in a row
    Try for 2000 steps before 9:30!
    New walking shoes
    Put together a playlist for walking at the lake

    So, yeah.
    A purse-sized journal/calendar, new tape measure, workout socks, a new bottle of ugly nail polish... Loving them all!
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    I only have ultimate goal related rewards. One is a tattoo. It's Harry Potter related - the word Always. It'll have a lightning bolt drawn by my 7 year old and glasses drawn by my 9 year old, so it'll be unique and special to me. It'll also be my first tattoo :)

    The other thing I'm "rewarding" myself with is the jeans in my avatar (smaller size, of course). They're stupid expensive, but I feel like after 85 pounds, I can justify it.
  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,741 Member
    I've rewarded myself over the years with many new workout clothes. I bargain shop, so it's not like I spend a fortune or anything, but after reading the "confessions" thread about people not washing their workout clothes either because they don't have enough or they just don't want the extra laundry makes me glad I have a whole drawer full of full outfits (bras and socks included). I have way more than I need for every day of the week.
  • rhileyschubbygranny
    rhileyschubbygranny Posts: 145 Member
    I am rewarding my self with a quick four day trip to Florida with a friend in a coupleof weeks from now. Being out of the snow and back on the beach for a couple of days ought to inspire me to keep on with the dieting/exercising once I have to parade around the beach looking like a whale in my bathing suit. That should motivate me for an additional couple of months after returning from the trip.
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