Celebrate Your Fat Loss Victories January 17
January 17th, 2010
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by Scott Tousignant · Filed Under: Fat Loss Motivation
I’m sure that you’ve been working hard at following through with your fat loss goals this week. It’s time to recognize your efforts and achievements by celebrating even the smallest of victories.
This is something that we will be doing every Sunday here at the Unstoppable Fat Loss blog and I believe it’s one of the key ingredients of a successful fat loss program, which is often over looked and neglected.

Celebrating your small victories often is one of the best strategies for overcoming self doubt when you experience a setback or get slightly off track. Sure you may have had a bad day of eating, but look at all the incredible accomplishments that you experienced throughout the week.
Learn from the setback. Celebrate the fact that you are more prepared to handle this obstacle in the future. Continue your journey of self growth.
I chose this picture because I believe it’s a very suitable representation of a typical fat loss journey. There is no straight path for achieving your goals. Even when it may appear that you are ‘off track’ you are actually still “ON TRACK”.
Even though you may face obstacles that you have to go around and over, you can still reach your final destination. I believe that it’s these “DETOURS” that make this lifelong journey worth while.
An analogy would be a recent trip that Angie and I went on. We could have easily taken the straight forward route to our vacation spot and arrive there within 3 hours, but instead we decided to take the back roads and pass through small towns that we had heard of yet never took the time to pass through.
Although this added about 6 hours to our trip it was the most memorable and magical time spent during our vacation and now we have new destinations that we would love to visit in the future.
One thing that amazes me is how you can focus a great deal of attention on what you’ve done wrong, how you always seem to sabotage yourself, and how you’ll never achieve the body that you desire… yet you spend very little time acknowledging your achievements.
This is all about to change for you. The Unstoppable Fat Loss blog is now a place where you can voice your successes and give them room to flourish. Bring life to your journey.
I guarantee that your successes greatly outweigh your setbacks. It’s time to prove to yourself just how great you’ve been doing.
I’ll begin by celebrating my small victories and I look forward to sharing in your celebration in the comment box below.
Scott’s Small Victories This Week:
Well that certainly felt great. I really did have an awesome week now that I look back on my achievements.
Now it’s time for you to set aside some well deserved time to celebrate your victories and share them with us here. After you share your victories let me know how you feel afterward.
What a great way to wrap up the week and look forward to the incredible week ahead of us.
Keeping It Real,

Scott Tousignant










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I did all 3 sets of the bodyweight exercises each day and 30 minutes of something gun on the other days. I fasted twice instead of once, and it was hard, but made it. I haven’t lost too much weight, and I feel better than I have in awhile. My biggest victory this week–I refuse to be discouraged!
Scott,
It is so true about forgetting to celebrate. I realized that I have not celebrated my own victories enough either. I was focusing on the doctor telling me I had gained weight in the last year at my annual checkup. Then I overtrained and was out of the gym for a few days.
I am overjoyed by the blood work which shows that I can dump the cholesterol medication as well s the aspirin and the blood pressure that I dropped last year. She even wrote “prefect!” on the results and said I am clear to run a marathon.
What I am proud of is my focus on healthy eating all week, bypassing the fresh cookies I found when I got home on Thursday.
I am thrilled by my 4 lb weight loss on Saturday morning.
I am excited about my long run Saturday-9 miles in 70 minutes-I am on track to complete my October Marathon. I may even add a half in May.
My tangible reward was to FINALLY buy myself a pair of spin shoes. I have been withholding them with various delays and excuses but I just went out and got them.
Seize the moment!
Have a great week.
Thank you for this! It came at a perfect time for me, too! I had a rough day yesterday, but learned from it….and I have done great all week, and got back on track today, too! I don’t have to toss all the victories out when I lose 1 battle!
You and Angie are great inspirations!
It’s like climbing a long staircase.
You go up one step at a time.
You don’t try to jump to the top in one long leap.
Or it’s like a fight.
You don’t think about winning the fight, you think about winning this round.
Then you don’t think about winning this round, just dominating this exchange.
And then, not dominating the exchange, but on landing THIS punch.
You keep punching, you keep going.
Very often it isn’t one big knock-out punch that wins the fight, but the accumulation of round after round of effective punches.
Well, you get the idea.
sj
I just completed 2 weeks of 5:40 AM bootcamp! I’ve never been an early morning kind of gal so, yay for me!
I just wanted to say Great Job to everyone who had victories last week!
My victories were a 3.4 lb weight loss last week, and I was also able to say no to a happy hour margarita with friends, sticking with water instead.
Looking forward to another great week!
Congratulations for all those achievements!
What I accomplished las week was:
A reduction in my waist and arm measurements.
I exercised everyday for the second week in a row.
I succumbed to some temptations but did not fall off the wagon like I used to, I’m still really motivated.
I feel I have become a great influence on my little sister, she likes to workout with me at home and is looking forward to spring when she can go running outside with me (it’s still too cold for her).
I hope to have more great victories for next week.
Thanks for all the support and advice.
I totally agree!!! We always look at what we do wrong and never the right ones – I am persoanally struggling with my fat/weight loss, and this sure is a push of encouragement – slowly but surely I’ll rach my goal.
Thanks a million Scott and all you guys!!!
Cheers
Nat
Oh man!!! You just made my day!!!
You can’t imagine how magnificent this post was for me. I’m having a very harsh time, beating myself up, hating all my guts, for being so “weak” and undisciplined. But after your words and also a podcast about perfectionism I just listened to, my motivation is a bit higher that I will star keeping a journal on my little daily successes right away. PERFECTIONISM IS KILLING ME. I want to be fair and realistic.
Thanks so much Scott