Fatty Liver & Losing Weight: How to Stay Motivated

Are you finding it hard to stay motivated while trying to lose weight with fatty liver? You’re not alone – I’ve been there on numerous occasions and many people face the same challenge. But with the right strategies, you can overcome it – and I am here to help you stay motivated long-term.

While this is normal – everybody will hit a wall sooner or later – we still have to stick to our goal of losing weight to reverse our fatty liver, then stay there at our ideal weight (which is probably even more difficult).

So today we’re going to talk about this: how to stay motivated to lose weight for fatty liver, but also how to keep your ideal weight months or years after getting there.

Everybody hits the wall

Usually, everybody is extremely motivated early on – the first few weeks, maybe a couple of months – but eventually most of us start getting back to the old eating habits. Dieting fatigue sets in, we’re probably starting to feel better and we just crash.

Unlike losing weight, gaining weight is something that happens a lot faster. You might undo a few weeks of dieting and healthy eating in just a couple of days (I know, I’ve been there!) If you continue, you will be back to your original, unhealthy weight sooner rather than later.

Once you start eating bad again, once you don’t pay as much attention to eating healthy, everything will probably spiral out of control and it’s a lot more difficult to get back to your ideal weight for the second time. So staying motivated is essential – and easier done if you follow my advice.

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A Simple Yet Powerful Motivation Trick to Stay Motivated for Fatty Liver Reversal

There are plenty of things one can do to stay motivated, but I have a simple trick that I use and which I am sure will help you too.

After all, reversing your NALFD / MASLD after losing weight and changing your eating habits and your way of living doesn’t mean much if immediately afterward you restart the past, chaotic lifestyle and gain weight again, making poor choices regarding the food you consume.

Most people doing so will get their fatty liver back and cause more damage to their livers. So it’s vital to keep your weight under control for the rest of your life!

Otherwise, your fatty liver can come back, and, as I said already, you might find it more difficult to start it all over again.

And here is one easy trick that I use, one trick that is deceptively simple, yet extremely useful.

It’s the one thing that helped me keep my weight under control, kept me motivated, and kept me going on with my diet and keeping my weight at or close to the ideal number:

Get a scale, measure your weight daily, and keep a diary of your weight!

This thing is more powerful than you can imagine! And it is vital to measure your weight daily, not weekly, not now and then, and not every couple of days.

Every day, every night, after splurging on a Saturday when you simply can’t say no to that cake, as well as after saying no to a deliciously-looking cake three days after.

Consistency is Key: Every day, every night, after splurging on a Saturday when you simply can’t say no to that cake, as well as after saying no to a delicious-looking cake three days later… keep recording that weight to stay accountable.

Record Your Data: Measure your weight every day and write it down (or save it on your phone or whatever): this will not only keep you motivated, but it will teach you a lot about what to eat and what not to eat and the effects various foods have on your weight.

Now I know that if I eat pasta or pizza (yes, I allow myself to have one or another every now and then since I reversed my fatty liver – and this is an amazing program to follow for that) after two days, the scale will have some bad news for me.

Reflect on Trends: Don’t stress over day-to-day fluctuations. Instead, focus on weekly trends. If you notice a consistent upward trend, assess your eating habits and make necessary adjustments.

Set Small Goals: Use the data to set achievable goals, such as losing 2 pounds in the next week, which will keep you motivated and focused. If you set your goal to “lose 25 pounds” – it doesn’t have a limit date and it’s also discouraging. Set one main goal and divide it into smaller ones!

How to Make the Most of Your Scale

Your scale becomes one of your best friends and weapon when dieting for fatty liver because it will have no mercy. It will always show you the exact results of your poor decisions, without sugar-coating it.

Even better, if you have just been diagnosed with a fatty liver, get a scale ASAP (recommendations below) as it will motivate you even more!

I used this method about a week after being diagnosed, after my doctor recommended it to me and it was awesome.

Early on, if you are overweight, you will lose weight like crazy if you start dieting.

Simply looking at those numbers going down will make you feel awesome and depending on your weight, it will last for about a couple of months (because the speed at which you lose weight slows down sooner or later).

But each day, you will see lower numbers, you will see the results of your hard work, you will feel better and you will have all the reasons in the world to brag. And to keep on going.

But you will also see the effects of stepping away from the path. You will learn that splurging on a pizza and soda, and maybe grabbing a dessert will mean an extra 2 pounds on your body for the next couple of days – and these pile up without mercy if you keep doing it!

You will see what a chocolate bar can do to your body, you will see what eating a lettuce salad for dinner instead of steak will mean.

There will be days when the scale doesn’t show the progress you were hoping for for the long term. When this happens, remember:

• Focus on Non-Scale Victories: Celebrate other successes like fitting into old clothes, having more energy, or sleeping better. One bad meal is not the end of the world and not a reason to completely ditch your diet.
• Stay Positive: Weight loss is a journey with ups and downs and EVERYBODY hits the wall eventually. Don’t let a single bad day define your progress. Keep going, knowing that each healthy choice brings you closer to your goal.

You will learn what to eat and you will do your best to stay on track! I don’t really know all the psychological reasons behind this, but it works!

This has helped me massively on multiple occasions already. I started at 210 pounds (95.5kg) and lost weight extremely fast during the first couple of months.

I was proud of myself and I loved looking at the paper I kept writing my weight on (because, yes, I’m that old school and keep track of my weight on a piece of paper). I eventually got to my ideal weight, which is 165 pounds. Then I left on vacation.

I had no scale there and I promised myself to reward myself with everything I wanted – as long as I went for the healthiest options available. It was my first vacation after I had managed to reverse my fatty liver, I was in great shape, and everything was good. Nothing could go wrong!

Except it did! I was shocked to see, when I got home after 10 blissful days, that I had gained 11 pounds during the vacation. I was still looking good and still, my overall weight was not bad at all… but putting on 11 pounds in 10 days was no joke either!

And this was the problem: I had no idea I had gained so much weight! If there wasn’t the scale to tell me, I would’ve been happy with the outcome, and maybe during the next vacation, I would’ve eaten the same and added 10 pounds more.

Then I would’ve said yes to an extra cake and ate more burgers and pizzas because I could’ve said that I wouldn’t gain that much weight. And eventually go back to my old self which was sick and miserable.

But when I got home, I had my scale there, telling me that I did some bad things. There was the data before the vacation telling me how bad it was.

And so I started to lose weight again – much slower than I did before, but I eventually got back to my ideal weight.

Get Yourself a Smart Scale!

Initially, I was using a pen and a piece of paper to measure my body’s weight, but there are more modern approaches to this (even though the old-school method works well too!)

I switched to using a smart scale because it has some additional benefits. Apart from measuring your weight, it gives you other nice information, like calculating your BMI, the percentage of body fat, how much water is in your body, and so on.

However, the biggest benefit is that smart scales can connect to your phone and transmit all that data to an app, where it is automatically stored and easy to check whenever you want to, with nice charts and even advice and additional motivation. It sure is better than tracking things with pen and paper!

Here are my top recommendations and trust me when I say this: it will change your way of living and help keep you motivated (as long as you use it daily). Affiliate links below:

• WITHINGS Body Smart Scale
• FITINDEX Smart Scale

But in the end, it doesn’t have to be one of these smart scales! Any type of scale goes, as long as you will write down your weight and keep those papers around to always be able to check them. The smart ones just have those nice bonuses – the extra bits of info (and they’re CHEAP!)

I still have the paper I first wrote my initial weight on, back in 2014: 210 pounds and I love looking at it, then comparing it to my current numbers which are always around the 165 mark. You can check this bit of history below and see another reason why smart scales are better – digitally recorded data doesn’t get stains on it.

I couldn’t have done it without this simple trick and I am happy to be able to share it with you. So put it to good use and reverse that fatty liver faster, staying motivated to lose weight and then keeping that weight! You’ve got this – keep pushing toward a healthier, happier you!