Best mantras to lose weight and stay motivated this summer

​Try this shape-shrinking technique to keep you on track by top therapist Marisa Peer, author of You Can be Thin

1 The best self-help mantra to motivate you to tone up and eat in a way that will cause weight loss is to keep saying to yourself ‘I have chosen to eat healthy food and I have chosen to go to the gym,’ because every time you say to your mind ‘I have chosen to do this and I want to do it,’ your mind encourages you to keep going. Every time you say ‘I can’t have chocolate, I mustn’t eat chips, I am not allowed dessert,’ you actually increase the craving and desire for those very foods because your mind thinks you want it but can’t have it, so you end up wanting them more.

2 If you are in the gym or making salads to take to work or ordering different food from your friends keep saying ‘I really want to do this, this is working for me and I love doing this,’ as it’s easy to fool the mind. Your mind does what it thinks you want it to do, the more clear and precise you are about wanting to eat less, eat healthy food and exercise the more it will motivate you to enjoy the process.

3 When you are around junk food remind yourself that you will ALWAYS have another day to eat cakes and chocolate but you won’t always have another day to look great on your holiday. That helps you decide to pause any bad eating and drop some weight for your holiday knowing that the biscuits will still be there on your return.