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Pretty Shoe Therapy a Solution to Your Weight-Loss Resolution?
Happy New Year! If you're already dreading your New Year's resolution to get fit and lose weight, we have a simple idea to help you get motivated: Pretty Shoe Therapy! It may be too simple, but aren't simple ideas the best?
Step One: Buy a new pair of pretty athletic shoes.
Whether you're jumping into a new exercise program or keeping up with an existing one, you should start the year with a fresh pair of shoes -- the prettier, the better. If you love shoes -- how could you not -- buying a new pair is a simple psychological trick to encourage positive thinking about exercise. It's a little something to get you excited and focused on action. However, for the trick to continue to work, please only wear them when you're exercising. Don't buy them to run errands or go shopping. Only wear them for your exercise routine, whether walking or power-walking, jogging or running, etc.
To help you, we found four really pretty athletic shoes, featured below. If you're looking to splurge on the latest trendy athletic shoes, like the funky Puma's shown above, we also recommend you check out Bay Area Kicks, which is a blog focusing on the athletic shoe niche. They primarily cover men's shoes, but they've featured some pretty women's styles, too.
Step Two: Buy a new pair of pretty shoes each time you lose 10 lbs.
All shoes are fair game (we don't mean to buy another pair of athletics). It may seem like an overly simply reward, but from a practical standpoint shoes are one of the safest articles of clothing you can buy as you drop dress and waist sizes. Whoever heard of someone dropping shoe sizes? Unless you're going through a severe weight change, probably not.
To keep you thinking positive about your weight-loss progression, we suggest buying pairs of shoes that go with dresses or outfits you hope to finally buy when you reach your target weight. Because choosing shoes is so much about coordinating them with your clothes -- and by extension the kinds of styles your size of your clothes allows -- we prefer shoes to other rewards like jewelry or other self-indulgences. They help keep you centered on your ultimate goal.
That's it! Just two steps.
Here are a few of our favorite athletic shoes for gals:
