Are Your Family & Friends Hurting Your Weight Loss?

Let’s face it, sometimes, it’s the people closest to you, that negatively impact you the most. When it comes to your health & weight loss goals, it may be your significant other or best friends that are the worst influence on you. So what can we do? Contingency Contracts 👌🏼

Contingency contracts are a great way to both reward and punish positive & negative behavior between two people. 

In this example a husband had become bitter and resentful of his wife for spending so much time exercising. He feels she no longer forfills her obligations & responsibilities to maintaining their home together. 

They’ve now created a CC with a money jar. One for “Kim” and one for “Mark.” Each put reward money into the other person’s money jar based on execution of the elements of the contract. The couple agreed to use their reward money on anything they wanted for themselves, not some- thing for the family. They also used punishment to motivate themselves by requiring the person who failed to do all of the agreed-upon tasks to act as that week’s launderer—that is, to do the whole family’s laundry for the subsequent week. 

More commonly, it’s typically our parents that sabotage our best efforts when in comes to dieting. This is another great opportunity for a contract. To learn more about possible solutions, send me a message today or visit noahjobin.com 

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