What were your rewards for reaching mini goals?

Just feeling healthy and more fit is a reward in itself.

Every 25lbs, I order a little 25lb weight plate charm for my keys. I have 3 now and hope to get 1 more.

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.

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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.

I lost over 100# and rewarded myself every 25#. Yes, feeling better about myself and getting healthier was a huge rewards, but it was nice to buy myself some things. 1st 25# was some new gym clothes, 50# new gym shoes, 75# was a much needed massage and 100# was a new BBQ grill. Then it got really hard to lose weight and I started buying myself a new song for my ipod for every pound

Not being as fat.

a pat on the back....?

I'm actually deliberately NOT "rewarding" myself at weight goals. I have had problems with linking my self-worth to things like my weight, job or relationships. My weight is a number and it actually doesn't mean very much. I am the same person whether I'm 160 or 260 lbs, and if I can't see that I don't know how to expect anyone else in the world to see it.

The changes I've made in my life reflect me conquering the challenges of an autoimmune disease and a couple very bad injuries. Every time I take my dogs out and hike on a trail, I'm amazed because a year ago I was bedridden thanks to a heart infection. Seeing the countryside again is a phenomenal gift, not because of my weight loss, but because I've been given the opportunity to heal, and to make choices that could help if (more likely when) I face a recurrence.

So I buy clothes as I need to replace clothing (worn/just does not fit at all). I do the things I enjoy regardless of my weight, with how they fit into my finances. If a tool will help me become more able to attain my goals, I'll purchase it when I an afford it. In the end, no matter what that number on the scale is, I need to act with love toward this amazing life I've been given and that includes my body.

I'm consciously attempting to decouple "rewards" from "making healthy decisions." I'm doing what I can do to give myself the best chance over the coming years to enjoy my life.