Having difficulties with your weight loss goals?
As we work on becoming the healthiest versions of ourselves, there are moments when we lose motivation and slide back into unhealthy habits. Sometimes our goals are not clear enough and we get lost along the way.
Perhaps it’s time to try a method that helps those who use it achieve their goals.
We’re talking about vision boards.
Today’s article will help you harness the power of vision boards to achieve weight loss and other health goals.
Let’s quickly discuss how you can benefit from using a vision board for weight loss.
The Benefits of Vision Boards for Weight Loss
1. They help break your grand vision down into small, actionable steps. This prevents you from getting overwhelmed with everything you need to do in order to accomplish your weight loss goals.
2. They encourage you to find creative ways to lose weight. To make the journey to weight loss more enjoyable, you can include images of the activities that encourage weight loss and that you like to do.
3. It provides proof that you’re being proactive about becoming a better version of yourself. Self-improvement is a worthy goal, and your vision board serves as hard evidence that you’re willing to do what’s necessary in order to achieve it.
Let’s check out a collection of examples to help you find the best vision board for weight loss. We hope these boards will motivate you to keep working toward your goal and help you enjoy the process every step of the way.
1. Printable Weight Loss Motivation Board
This printable set helps you lose weight by providing trackers to monitor your progress.
Some of the elements you’ll find in the set are:
You can lay out these printables any way you like to create your custom vision board. Set it on a cork board or on a firm poster board and then put it somewhere conspicuous. This way, you’ll see how you’re doing and maximize your use of a powerful visualization tool to bring you closer to your goal.
2. Find Your Fit
People have different reasons for wanting to lose weight. The creator of this board intends to lose weight before going on a cruise.
She included a calendar in her vision board to keep track of the days until her vacation.
To motivate her further, she has allocated spaces for timeline pictures of herself as she gets closer to her ideal weight. These non-scale victories further motivate her to continue working on her goal.
She also included a real bikini top as part of the board’s design as a reminder of her goal to be slim for her vacation.
3. Accomplished and Excited
This brightly colored vision board template helps you keep track of your health goals and ensures that you’re working on them with intention and clarity.
When working with this template, there are guide questions to answer. The answers that you write down on the template will become part of the overall design of your vision board. They serve as powerful visual reminders of why you’re working to lose weight in the first place.
This printable set comes with words, quotes, and images you need to create the perfect vision board for your health goals.
4. One Pound at a Time
Here’s a vision board example that features clothespins in a creative and clever way to keep track of how much weight the board’s owner has lost over a certain period of time.
Each mini clothespin represents one pound. The idea is that for every pound lost, the board’s owner moves a clothespin to the designated spot on the vision board.
5. Time to Sparkle a Little Brighter
All of the design elements found on this vision board create a synergy to motivate the owner to reach her weight-loss goals.
Elements include a “Before” and “After” section, which provides a visual reminder of the main goal.
A mini-calendar not only creates a 3D component for the board, but also helps keep track of the days the owner has been working on her weight-loss goal. The rest of the vision board features words and images that provide motivation and reminders of what the board’s owner wants to achieve.
6. Slimming
This board’s owner shows her commitment to her goal of losing weight by signing up for a Slimming World program. As part of her motivation, she incorporates congratulatory cards from Slimming World for every weight-loss milestone she reaches.
She also keeps track of how much weight has already been lost through a couple of clothespin trackers integrated into the board.
7. Determined to Succeed
This vision board incorporates several types of charts for motivation and keeping track of weight-loss goals.
For example, a chart is included in this board for tracking body measurements, and another for meal plans. It also features a couple of mini-boards—one is assigned for “Current Weight” and the other is for “Goal Weight.”
A Rewards chart is also included, with spaces reserved for writing down specific rewards for weight-loss milestones achieved. [Check out Ways You Can Reward Yourself Without Food for a Weight Loss Goal.]
8. Focus on HER
This vision board is not only for weight loss. It is also for self-care and personal development, focusing on the entire well-being of the board’s owner.
This board features inspiring words and empowering images. It has a meal plan incorporated into the overall design, as well as trackers for hydration and weight loss. Overall, this board empowers its owner to live a healthy, happy life.
9. F_T Body
If you prefer to keep your vision board really simple, just grab an erasable marker and write your goals, motivational quotes, and other relevant information related to your goals on a white board.
You may want to embellish the rest of the board with some pixel art and your own photographs for added visual interest.
10. Getting Up After Each Fall
The journey to getting fit can be waylaid by many pitfalls. A strong support system is necessary for many people in order to succeed in their weight-loss goals.
This board’s owner has joined a WeightWatchers program and created this board to constantly remind her of her ultimate goal. A board like this can also serve as motivation during those times when working on your goal feels like an uphill battle.
11. At a Perfect Weight
This digital vision board features images and quotes for motivation and empowerment. Like the previous example, the owner of this board also joined WeightWatchers to help with her weight-loss goals.
Final Thoughts
Many people want to lose weight for health reasons, and a vision board is the perfect tool for helping them achieve this goal.
Creating a vision board for weight loss can be one of the most enjoyable activities you can do to effect positive change in your life.
We hope that the examples and ideas featured today will inspire you to dive in and create your own board so you can reach your health goals.
For more resources about vision boards, please check out the following posts:
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Finally, if you don’t know how to get started with this strategy, then check out this FREE printable worksheet and a six-step process that will help you create the PERFECT vision board.
