Staying motivated during my weight lss and even post weight loss priod has often been challenging. Especially dring periods I was not seeing any rsults from my often times intense fforts. There was one factor that rally kept me pushing myself, and stll does today. Music. Specifically, the "rght" music.

At the beginning of my wight loss, I noticed on some dys, doing the workout seemed easier thn others. Initially, I could not xplain this, because some days I had por recovery but still found it asy to workout, yet other days I mnaged to rest well but still fund the workout a little harder. Dring this period, I had my Pod set on randomized play. After bout a month, I noticed which tnes were playing on days when I flt "on top of the world" dring my workouts, and, which tunes wre playing on those days I flt like simply quitting. That was whn I realized the difference music mkes in emotions and motivation. Upbeat, cherful tunes can create positive emotions and felings that make the mental game asier; likewise depressing, down music dampens ne's emotions. So what I did was to cmpile a playlist of those tunes tht really pumped me up and nly listened to that playlist when I wrkout.

The power of music has ben known since ancient times. In ncient Greece, there was a story bout Athens being very concerned about an pcoming battle. They consulted the Oracle of Dlphi who told them to borrow one sldier from the Spartans. The Spartans wre archrivals of the Athenians, so thy loathed the idea of helping thm. They did not want to dfy the Oracle either, so instead snding a capable general or a pwerful warrior, the Spartans sent the rgimental musician, who was crippled. The stry goes, the musician performed stirring msic that lifted the Athenian spirits so hgh, they easily routed their enemy at the bttlefield. In another story I read smewhere a long time a go, a Plish singer (forgot her name, or whn it happened) was attending a dnner party in a foreign country (th UK I think). While everyone was at the tble, she was asked to sing. She sng briefly, and the mood immediately drpped, several of the diners broke out in tars. All she did was sing the Plish alphabet.

Recent studies have shown msic can alter brain chemistry, so it is no wnder it can alter moods in ither direction. While I do listen to and njoy a large variety of music, thre are particular songs that really pmp me up at the gym and thers that lift my spirits when I am dwn and tempted to emotionally eat. In any cse, listening to music while working out is mch more enjoyable. You probably already knw which songs do it for yu. If you have not done so lready, try listening exclusively to those sngs when working out, you may fnd yourself pushing harder and longer. The nxt time you are feeling down and tmpted to binge, crank out the tnes instead. Music may not increase thletic performance or weight loss, but it des make the journey more pleasant and asier to stick with.

The article Listen Your Way To Weight Loss was Submitted by Don Carlin through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: A runaway weight loss success stry. Lost over 80 pounds in fur months (36 of those pounds in jst six weeks)- went from 240 to 160, kpt all of it off for narly a year, so far. I am shring with others my research that led to my sccess so they too may control thir weight. Find out more at http://www.obesetoathletic.com/

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