Are You Losing All Your Marbles?

Use marbles or rocks in a jar to count pounds you've lost says celebrity trainer Heidi Powell - Learn more at https://heidipowell.net/2779

In Chantell’s episode of Extreme Weight Loss, she used 2 mason jars and marbles to help her visualize her first goal. One jar held  91 marbles, each representing 1 pound, that she needed to lose, to reach that first milestone. The other, empty, awaiting to be filled!

As she lost each pound, she moved a marble to the second jar, and continued to move marbles  from one to the other, as she worked off each and every one of those pounds, helping her visually see her progress. She was literally watching herself lose her marbles! 🙂

Creating a way to help you see how you are doing as you work on a goal can help you see greater success and serve as a reminder of what you are focused on attaining. Keep it where you will walk past it and see it regularly to help you stay on track.

You can fill a jar not only with marbles, but with anything similarly small like decorative rocks or even buttons! Mason jars are inexpensive, and if you don’t have any readily handy, check the goodwill for fun jars and containers to hold “your weight”.  I love these darling apothecary jars filled with pebbles! The possibilities are endless as you create a way to visually track your goal. You can even include your favorite motivational quote to give you additional inspiration!

How do you track your goals? Let me know in the comments below!

 

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  1. I pay myself for my workouts. I keep a dry erase calendar to keep track. For every mile I run, I get $1 of fun money. I give myself a $1 for spin class or Crossfit or whatever else I do to break a sweat. Kind of fun to see how much fun money I’m going to get!

  2. Loved this episode!! I track my loss with quarters, when the jar is filled I treat myself to something. Lately my numbers havent been budging, and I am quite frustrated. Still hve a long way to go, and not really understanding why I am stuck. 🙂

  3. I watched Chantell’s episode and I loved the idea of the marbles.ive seen this idea before and now I’m doing the same thing with beads because its what I had at the time. In just starting the journey and have a goal of 50lbs!!! The marbles are anther visual for myself to see the weight I’m loosing!! The real visual will be the fit of my clothes and when my body changes!!! I’m so excited and what’s one of the best things about this journey is my husband is right by my side!!!

  4. I have a pile of post-its with each weight written on it until my goal weight. I have the satisfaction of tearing up each post-it and throwing it away and I pass that weight!

  5. Paper Clips. I tried to post a pic here to show you my cool paper clip strand, but I can’t figure it out. I will try to post it to FB. 🙂

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