What were your rewards for reaching mini goals?

Auntiezozo81
Auntiezozo81 Posts: 87 Member
edited November 24 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi
I'm just about to take my first step on my ever lasting weight loss journey.
My first mini goal us to lose 7lbs. Once reached I would to reward myself like a new top or something. What were your mini goal rewards?
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  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    edited September 2015
    Ever lasting weight loss journey? Does it not stop some where? Are you just going to lose until you're a skeleton? Lol.

    I didn't have one.
  • Samm471
    Samm471 Posts: 432 Member
    IsaackGMOON wrote: »
    Ever lasting weight loss journey? Does it not stop some where? Are you just going to lose until you're a skeleton? Lol.

    I didn't have one.

    lmao!!!
  • vgnfarmer
    vgnfarmer Posts: 108 Member
    Mani/pedi, new shirt or pants, special (tracked) dessert or meal. Good luck!
  • Cahgetsfit
    Cahgetsfit Posts: 1,912 Member
    I only just managed to change my mindset of using food as rewards. Every time I hit a weight goal I'd go "yeah I got this weight loss thing woot check me out" and reach for the ice-cream or cake or whatever. Needless to say, up went the weight again. The last time I did that I stopped and went "WTF am I doing????" So instead, I have purchased a new gym t-shirt with a picture of Elsa on it flexing her guns saying "let it grow". It will take two weeks to arrive from the US. Until the. I will drop back to my mini goal of 62 kilos within that timeframe and stay there! I'm 200 grams away so yeah... From now on, clothes, massages, mani pedis...
  • Azuriaz
    Azuriaz Posts: 785 Member
    camilacreme wrote: »
    I only just managed to change my mindset of using food as rewards. Every time I hit a weight goal I'd go "yeah I got this weight loss thing woot check me out" and reach for the ice-cream or cake or whatever. Needless to say, up went the weight again. The last time I did that I stopped and went "WTF am I doing????" So instead, I have purchased a new gym t-shirt with a picture of Elsa on it flexing her guns saying "let it grow". It will take two weeks to arrive from the US. Until the. I will drop back to my mini goal of 62 kilos within that timeframe and stay there! I'm 200 grams away so yeah... From now on, clothes, massages, mani pedis...

    Yep, that's definitely one way to make it a never ending weight loss journey. Done it so many times now I can't count.

    There is however a Mongolian restaurant around here. Thinking next time I want to go all food reward, I'll go for a huge platter of meat. Cooked, though!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I personally never did the reward thing
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    I suck at rewards. If I want something I'm going to buy it anyway. I have a fitbook though and it has a space for rewards so I try and think of them even though I think it is stupid. Maybe that's my issue and why I can't lose weight - I don't care enough about the reward (or know I'll buy it anyway if I really want it)! I usually do fitness stuff - funny socks, a new workout tank, a new color of handwraps for boxing, new headband, things like that.
  • JessicaB523
    JessicaB523 Posts: 70 Member
    Tattoos and some fitness related stuff (new bike, etc).
  • chulipa
    chulipa Posts: 650 Member
    I would like to buy things yo make my ford explorer look nice it a 1996 and It is new to me as of today and maybe something for my dog chulipa
  • plyadnov
    plyadnov Posts: 16 Member
    My reward is health, feeling better today than I did a month ago, being able to run 10 minutes at a faster pace than before, looking in the mirror and seeing progress, this list goes on. I tend not to "reward" myself with food or things. Do this weight loss for yourself. The new you is the reward...satisfaction won't disappear like it would with a new piece of clothing or a plate of special food. Take it 1lb at a time.
  • VykkDraygoVPR
    VykkDraygoVPR Posts: 465 Member
    Clothes! But my goal is always to be a size smaller, so it's not so much the reward, as the entire point. :)
  • LaceyBirds
    LaceyBirds Posts: 451 Member
    Some ideas in this recent thread: community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10257408/non-food-treats-after-goals-ideas#latest
  • KateTii
    KateTii Posts: 886 Member
    My reward was that I had lost the weight. I don't see the need to reward myself for hitting goals - but then again I didn't have much to lose in the beginning & motivation to keep going hasn't been an issue.
  • cnbbnc
    cnbbnc Posts: 1,267 Member
    I bought some new clothes for the gym which made me feel good. Make up or a new nail polish. Little things to make me feel good.
  • cupcakesplz
    cupcakesplz Posts: 237 Member
    I buy dresses that are one size too small.
    Sure I can't wear them out (being that they look too small on me)
    , but it becomes my next goal!rqwfml3i7o3p.jpg
    Another 5 more kg's should do it
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    For me, the weight loss is it's own reward. It sounds silly, but it's true. :)
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    I never set any goal rewards.
  • Lynzdee18
    Lynzdee18 Posts: 500 Member
    I went shopping today as a treat. Found myself a most wondefully fitted pair of designer jeans that I paid way too much for. But my rear view looked so fine! It hasn't looked like that since I was in my 20's. B)
  • misskarne
    misskarne Posts: 1,765 Member
    I have every-five-kilo rewards. Bought a sports jacket at my first five kgs. Lining up a haircut for my next one - fingers crossed it should be next weekend!
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    Personal satisfaction
  • TeenageMutantNinjaMike
    TeenageMutantNinjaMike Posts: 97 Member
    I agree on the personal satisfaction, but a little pat on the back never hurts either. I have been trying to come up with a good goal for myself but nothing really appeals. I think this is where I crave help from others, maybe their praise should be a good enough goal / reward.
  • beverlyjlarson
    beverlyjlarson Posts: 104 Member
    Just feeling healthy and more fit is a reward in itself.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    For me, the goal IS the reward. Way more important to me than anything I could buy for myself!
  • tracie_minus100
    tracie_minus100 Posts: 465 Member
    Every 25lbs, I order a little 25lb weight plate charm for my keys. I have 3 now and hope to get 1 more.
  • DeterminedFee201426
    DeterminedFee201426 Posts: 859 Member
    edited September 2015
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    I personally never did the reward thing
    kimny72 wrote: »
    For me, the goal IS the reward. Way more important to me than anything I could buy for myself!

    my thoughts as well haha
    beverlyjlarson wrote: »
    Just feeling healthy and more fit is a reward in itself.
    Kalikel wrote: »
    For me, the weight loss is it's own reward. It sounds silly, but it's true. :)

    Same here
  • Auntiezozo81
    Auntiezozo81 Posts: 87 Member
    Fab!! Thanks all
  • VykkDraygoVPR
    VykkDraygoVPR Posts: 465 Member
    misskarne wrote: »
    I have every-five-kilo rewards. Bought a sports jacket at my first five kgs. Lining up a haircut for my next one - fingers crossed it should be next weekend!

    Haircuts are a necessary, and distasteful chore, not a treat! Even thinking about it makes me itchy! XD
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,694 Member
    Auntiezozo81 wrote: »
    Hi
    I'm just about to take my first step on my ever lasting weight loss journey.
    My first mini goal us to lose 7lbs. Once reached I would to reward myself like a new top or something. What were your mini goal rewards?

    1) My "weight loss journey" is not ever lasting. It will be coming to an end quite soon, thank goodness.

    2) During the last 7 months of losing weight, I didn't do the reward thing for "mini goals".

    When I reached my first main goal, where I thought I might stop, my husband and I took a trip to Canada and I stopped logging for a month. But that wasn't a reward, it was more of a co-incidence that I reached the goal right before we left.

    I should be at my next goal, where I want to stop, sometime in October.

    The only sort of reward-ish thing I'm planning to do is to go through all my clothes and figure out what actually fits me. I have clothes in about 3 different sizes because I've ranged between small, medium, and large over the last decade.

  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    My reward was the satisfaction of a job well done.
  • misskarne
    misskarne Posts: 1,765 Member
    VykkDraygoVPR wrote: »
    misskarne wrote: »
    I have every-five-kilo rewards. Bought a sports jacket at my first five kgs. Lining up a haircut for my next one - fingers crossed it should be next weekend!

    Haircuts are a necessary, and distasteful chore, not a treat! Even thinking about it makes me itchy! XD

    I get the works done, a full shampoo/condition, cut, and blow dry. My hair is getting pretty shaggy at the moment so it's overdue for a cut, actually.
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