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How to Stay Motivated

“you cannot ‘find’ motivation, you must create it!”

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Take it One Day at a Time
Don’t worry about tomorrow, focus on today. Focus on eating right for today, make it your goal for the day, and repeat it tomorrow, and the day after that and the day after that. 

Surround Yourself with Positivity
“Change your thoughts, and you change your world”, it’s really true. Think you can, and you can do anything. Think positive, breathe positive, live positive, be positive as much as possible. Focus on the solution, rather than the problem. Surround yourself with good people, good food (food that’s good for you), and good thoughts.

Create a Dream Board
Bring your dreams to life. Look at them every day. Never lose sight of what you want. Fill it with your favourite quotes and pictures to inspire you. 

How to Make a Dream Board
Digital Dream Board
Create a Dream Board

Visualize Accomplishing your Goals
If your goal is to lose weight, create a mental picture of yourself having already achieved it. What will you look like, feel like, and move like when you have accomplished that goal? Living as if you are already there makes realizing your vision something you focus on daily. 

Make Realistic Goals
Ask yourself what you want. What do you want from life? Who do you want to be? Where do you want to be? And make realistic goals. Now that doesn’t mean you can’t have your dream body, it just means realizing that it won’t happened overnight. Make S.M.A.R.T goals. Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, & Time-bound goals. 

SMART Criteria
Example of SMART goal

Reward Yourself, Be Kind to Yourself & Recognize your Progress
When you know you have been good to your body, treat yourself! Find a reward that inspires you- a new pair of sneakers or workout outfit, a new music CD for your walk or pamper your feet with a pedicure for all of your efforts. Give yourself a hug once in awhile! Train hard, eat right, sleep well, but once a week, allow yourself an indulgence. Enjoy your favorite dessert, get a massage, or simply take some time for yourself to relax.

It’s Okay to Cheat!
Once in a while, cheating will keep you on track! Planning a cheat, whether it’s a snack, a meal, a weekend or a week vacation, can make all the difference in the world. Allowing yourself a little “controlled” wiggle room, you can avoid falling off the wagon. And once your “cheat” is done, go right back to your plan.

Forget about the Scale 
Focus on how you’re life is changing, on how you feel. Focus on how you’ve changed. Focus on the inches lost, the muscle gained. Focus on how much better you’re becoming and how much you’re gaining. Alternatively, weigh yourself once a week, or even once a month. Measure your entire body monthly as well. Take one picture of yourself daily in the same outfit for the duration of your journey. 

Don’t Compare Yourself to Others
Focus on yourself, on creating the best you possible. Remember that everyone is different, everyone has their own experiences, and their own unique imperfections. Different people are at different stages at different times. Comparing yourself to others can lead to bitterness, anger, jealousy, envy and even unhealthy competition.

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Before and During :]

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Just like the workout plans for August and September, Back On Pointe brings you workout plans for the month of October! However, unlike the past two months, October includes three different workout plans: a basic one like August and September’s, a student-focused one that asks for more workouts on the class-free weekends, and a beginner plan that follows a 3 days on/1 day off method.

Whatever plan you choose, and feel free to change whenever you’d like, the directions are simple: find the current date on the calendar, see what workout(s) it asks for, and pick one from each section listed for that date to do. For example, if today is says “Arms” and “General,” I’d find an arm workout and a general workout to do today.

If you’d like to write about your experiences during the month or see how others are doing, please use the tag BoP: October. By all using this tag, we can see what others are doing during the month and send others encouragement along the way.

During the month, remember that you should take as many rest days as you need, modify any workouts that you cannot do, stay hydrated, get more low-intensity cardio, and eat well.

Have fun!

Arms

• Lean Arms Workout v.1
• Lean Arms Workout v.2
• Tone Those Triceps!
• Weight-Free Arms
• Arms Workout
• All About Arms
• Dumbbells, Smart Arms
• Beginner Arms

Legs

• Inner Thigh Toner
• Tame Those Thighs
• Kill Those Legs!
• Your Best Butt
• Thigh Toner
• Dancer’s Legs Workout
• Legs Workout
• 5 Minute Butt Blaster
• Legs For Days
• Shapely Squats

Abs

• All-Over Abs
• 1-2-3 Ab Workout
• Quick Challenge
• I Seek Obliques
• Abs Challenge
• Intense Abs
• Waist Trimmer
• Ballet Abs
• Flat Abs Workout
• Lower Ab Attack

General

• Full Body Meltdown
• Absolute Beginner Workout
• Fat Blaster
• Quiet Workout
• Coffee Break Workout
• All-Over Workout
• Whole Body Workout
• Morning Angel Workout
• No Space? No Problem!
• Basic Dumbbell Workout
• Full Body Workout
• One-Song Workouts
• 50 Up, 50 Down
• Morning Workouts
• Leveled Workouts
• Count Up, Count Down
• Strength and Cardio
• Water Bottle Workout
• Workout Challenge for the Absolute Beginner

Challenges

• Weather Workout
• Quick Workout
• Digital Clock Workout
• Challenge
• Challenge
• Challenge
• Challenge
• Challenge

Cardio

• Leveled Cardio
• One-Room Cardio
• All-Cardio Challenge
• Cardio Circuit
• Killer Kardio
• Beginner Cardio
• Kick-It Cardio!
• Basic Cardio

I’m sure going to make it.

Starting tomorrow! Who’s in?

WOOOOO!!!!!

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Nice curves

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his face says it all

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Not smarter. Not nicer. Not better people. Not a scientist or an engineer or a teacher or a mother. Just thinner.

We as a society have to remember that when we see ads on TV saying ‘LOSE 10 LBS N 10 DAYS!’ ‘GET RID OF THAT UGLY FAT!’ ‘TAKE THESE DIET PILLS!’, our children are seeing them too.

When you’re complaining about how ‘fat’ you look in the mirror, your little sister or brother, your son or daughter, your cousin, the child you babysit, sees it. And they internalize it. It starts them on a LIFETIME of being obsessed with body image. They’re actually MORE likely to become obese because of hyper-awareness of body image and constantly feeling like they’re not good enough. They’re MORE likely to end up with an eating disorder.

It has to stop.

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