There's no doubt that enlisting the support of family and friends can motivate to achieve your health goals. Family and friends can keep focused when you start to veer off course or they can join and give you someone to experience the change with. But keep an eye out for those people who can sabotage your work and set out to deliberately de-motivate you.
If you want to success, you must learn to distinguish your supporters from your saboteurs. Use the definitions below to distinguish which category your family and friends are in.
Buddies: Team up with you and provide you with great support - these are the people you want around while you get healthy. They could be friends that go running with you or a partner that goes on a healthy eating plan with you.
Cheerleaders: Congratulate you on your efforts, but don't join in. They may be your work colleagues or friends that admire from afar. They usually ask how everything is going and are also great to have on your side.
Saboteurs: Stand between you and your goals. they sabotage your best efforts. They make negative comments and offer you things that you are trying to avoid. A perfect example of a saboteur is an un healthy partner who doesn't want to see you healthy and improve your appearance, because they fear you will be more attractive to the opposite sex.
Hecklers: Are not interested in getting healthy themselves and out of habit they may offer you things that you are trying to avoid. They don't realise the negative effects they are having. Let them know what you are going, so that they don't demotivate you.
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