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Getting arm tone took me a very long time. Thus, arm fat haunted me for a large portion of my life.

You see, my levels of motivation were in a constant flux. No matter what I did, I could not maintain a lasting amount of motivation.

And at times I would reach tipping points, throw my hands up in the air and give up all hope. Then, I would reward myself with endless cookies.

But I had a wake-up call and came to the conclusion that this type of mental lifestyle was not going to get me the sexy arms I so desperately wanted.

As a result, I began searching for a way to maintain motivation and adherence to a program. The answer to my prayers was Dr David Burns MD. He created a method that revolved around the avoidance of cognitive distortions.

So without further ado, here are three distortions you should avoid so that your arm tone motivation never fades:

1. Black and white distortions. If you are a perfectionist, you most likely suffer from these distortions. If you have to do something perfectly or not at all, then you see things as black and white. Ironically, if you ignore perfectionism and lower your standards you\’ll get better results.

2. Over generalizing distortions. This one is based on the faulty assumption that if something happened to you in the past it will keep on happening again and again in the future. You may tell yourself, for instance, that since you haven\’t been able to lose weight in the past you will never be able to lose weight in the future and every program out there simply won\’t work for you.

3. Mental filtering distortion. This distortion is pure evil because it prevents you from giving yourself enough credit, a critical component to success. For example, let\’s say you have an entire month of solid workouts but miss one workout due to a last-minute commitment. Instead of giving yourself praise for the awesome month of workouts, you ignore them and beat yourself up for the single missed workout that was entirely out of your control.

Avoiding the above distortions will seriously help you achieve lasting motivation when trying to get arm tone. And lasting motivation is the key to sexy arm stardom.

One more thing, it\’s very important that you act on this advice sooner rather than later. You see, taking action quickly is the fastest way to get great results.

Author Katherine Crawford M.S., a Harvard exercise physiologist and recent arm fat victim, is an expert on exercises for flabby arms for women. Learn how to get toned arms now by visiting her blog on arm flab.

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