Make It a Habit

Make it a Habit
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The challenge people face is that the adopted habits are not a guarantee to achieve the expected lasting change. And since a new habit is a resolution at some point, human beings start with lots of energy but lose the focus and interest as time goes. Personally, I want to make daily exercise a habit with the aim of losing weight. The doctors told that am overweight and if this continues it might result in health complications. I am taking part in a weight loss completion organized by my favorite TV show host. These two major factors are the motivators towards achieving and implementing my new habit. Five factors make habits stick, I am applying them in this undertaking to ensure its successful, they include Monitoring, Scheduling, Pairing, Loopholes or challenges and Convenience (Rubin, 2015).
Monitor
On a weekly basis the TV show host analysis the progress of the weight loss for the participants. Every Sunday morning there will be a common place where all the participants will meet and have a training session together. After the training, everybody will be required to step on the weighing machines for the facilitators to record the weight loss progress. It will help them track the participants who are in the lead by losing more weight. This means that at the end of every week I will be able to know how many kilograms I have lost. My target is to lose at least 3.5 kilograms every week and if I find it easy to lose weight, I can even lose more but time will tell.

Scheduling
This is all about the time one goes for the exercise. Personally, I have set my training session to begin the TV show starts immediately; I do the warm up in the house and leave for the gym immediately after the show ends. Every day of the week except on Sundays when we have the common training session I exercise in the evening on the rest of the weekdays.
Convenience
I want to make going to the gym a habit; I will be going there every day to train and exercise with an aim to lose weight. I am aware that going to exercise at the gym will make my target to lose weight easier since at the gym I can get a qualified trainer. There are several affordable gyms in my hometown though located far away from my house. The one which is two closer to my house is expensive, but for convenience reasons, I have decided that I will pay more but do my daily exercise at a place near my house (Rubin, 2015).
Pairing
I have paired my exercise habit with my favorite reality TV show; the host of this TV program has organized a weight loss competition. Whereby among the fifty people who are participating the one who loses more kilograms will get a salon car as the prize. I am going to create space inside my living room to make sure that every time I am watching the show, I will be doing some aerobic exercise and warm up. Immediately the show ends I live my house and go to the gym to continue the exercise with the guidance of a professional trainer.
Loopholes
These are the challenges that come along the way during as I do my exercise. I expect challenges to come that might make me loose interests in doing my routine exercise. I am sure such challenges will be overwhelmed by my desire to reduce weight and burn the fats in my body. Examples of such loopholes are the injuries am likely to get, muscle fatigue and getting tired due to the continuous vigorous exercise (Rubin, 2015).

References
Rubin, G. (2015). Better than before: Mastering the habits of our everyday lives. Hachette UK.