Mini incentives

I lost all my weight and have maintained using the mini goal idea. My mini goals have included exercise (started with 15min three days a week..easy to meet and go over), log as well as I can for one meal, tai chi (one routine) three days a week, stretch, weights, limit wine etc . Each week I evaluate and each month adjust to a new harder goal. See...I started very very easy and now it is easy to do more. My present routine is exercise 30min 5 days a week, some weights 3 days a week, plan and log a week in advance, expanded tai chi 5 days or more, yoga most days. I still evaluate every month to add a minor challenge but I have kept the weight off for about two years and at 75 am healthy and on no meds. I now look back and am amazed at how easy it was. Just make your goals reasonable. True confession, for me the hardest was to limit my evening wine, my first goals were "cut out wine except once a week" and when I didn't meet it all bets were off. Now I have the goal of wine when the dinner is wine worthy, so you may have to adjust goals along the way.
For me this was a great way to get healthy.

So i did not have these for weight goals but I had a goal of not eating junk food. Every week I would grant myself a reward. New shoes, new jacket, new plants, tickets to a movie. It was hard to find things at first but it works better if you also set financial goals like not spending above x amount or not buying anything outside the needs sort of thing, the rewards really do feel like treats hope it helps

I use clothes I can't fit into. I find the least most tight clothing item I want to wear again. I hang that on the wall or mirror .. and I try it on each week until it fits.. Then I hang the next least most tight nothing in its place. Eventually.. I get into the smallest most tight piece of clothing I want to wear again. This insanity works for me.

@elisa123gal I love your idea! My husband and I each had some ‘fantasy’ clothes…nothing naughty(!), just clothes that we could only fantasize fitting back into. I have long fit back into most of them, but there are still a few. I’ve folded them in order of snug to tight some time ago, but haven’t pulled them out in awhile. I’ll dig them out and try them on, leaving one out to look at each day. For the record, I would guess my husband has since got back into his.

I’m restarting after regaining and need external accountability to meet my weight loss goals. So I’ve joined one of the monthly challenges where you report in weekly, to get started. When I hit that goal at the end of the month I’ll buy myself a book - I’ve wish-listed a bunch. I’m hoping to just keep repeating that process for a few months until I go away on vacation. I then hope to be wearing my smaller, newer jeans!