Reward Yourself

Appetizer
A healthy heart and hot bod are are indeed reasons enough for working out and eating right, but go ahead...Give yourself even more of an incentive to work hard.

Main Course
What motivates you to push through one more rep or ask for "salad dressing on the side, please?" Figure out what makes you go the extra mile (literally and figuratively), and use that special treat to reward yourself for a job well done.

Bribing others is not-so-nice, but bribing yourself work every time. Do massages send you over the top? What about a decadent piece of dark chocolate? Maybe it's an afternoon alone on the couch with a good read. Take 5 minutes out of your day today to develop a short list of things that motivate you, and start rewarding yourself whenever you go above and beyond your fitness and/or nutrition goals for the week.

P.S. Ladies, this means that you have my permission to pick up that pair of juicy sandals that you've been salivating over...Just make sure that it's after you beat your best time in that 10K.

Dessert
I LOVE PANCAKES!!!!! Yum, yum, yum, yum! They make me smile. I'm actually smiling right now just because I'm thinking about them. So, needless to say...When I push through an especially rough spinning class or go through the week without missing a single serving of fruits & veggies, I reward myself with PANCAKES!!! Yea...