What keeps you motivated? If I could just stay motivated every single day, I'd be all set!! LOL would'nt we all?

Anyway, I'd love to hear about what keeps you motivated If you're willing to share

This is my motivation.


Amongst other things, I am determined to be the Queen of Exercise Minutes. Competing in the exercise challenge is what keeps me motivated to get out there and move my butt!

Oh, and one final completely selfish reason - to stick it in the OH's ex's face who called me a fat cow

Motivation is so fickle! I stay motivated only day by day (like your sig says you gotta take it one day at a time). Some days I am so not motivated. Most of the time it's habit. At the begining, which was about 10 months ago now, I was FULLLLLLLL of motivation, at this point I just keep going so I don't undo all the hard work that motivated girl did back then, haha.

I have a real hard time staying motivated... Some days i just wake up and i havent lost any weight in a WHILE or i just feel real down about the way i look and i think the weight will never come off and i almost get off track.. I hate the days like that because i eat like crap and dont help myself. Other days i get motivated when i see pics of me when i was skinny, or see my skinny friends, stuff like that. I dunno.. Ive started setting short term goals for myself now. Instead of lookingand being like "man i have 50 lbs to loose to be where i KINDA wanna be" i look and see "Ok, only 15 lbs to go before i get to the 200 mark" then soon it will be 190, 180 etc. I KNOW i can do it, its just hard..

I'm booking a vacation 1/1-1/7 in Puerto Vallarta and I am sooo excited, but very very scared I won't get to my goal weight of 130 or lower...but knowing every little thing I eat or don't eat will contribute to how I will look in 6 months!

thank you so much for sharing. I feel so lucky to have found this forum because I've never been able to talk to people like this and have them understand!!! Thanks for sharing what motivates you.

I am kind of a visual shallow person when it comes to morivation. I often think of the end result...how I will look. I do care about how I feel and just overall being fit, not looking like someone else - however it is pictures of women with my ideal body that get me going. Lately though I have been on a running program...pushing myself and the accomplishment I feel after being able to run more than I did the day before is motivating me soooo much!

My motivation:

~ Pics of me from 3 yrs ago in the best shape of my life!
~ My health: I was diagnosed with a disease that is incurable, but instead of letting it beat me up, I kick it's *** instead! I'm determined to not get in the shape it got me in for so long....
~ our family reunion next May... I want to look good in pictures and in my bathing suit!
~ Getting back into the gym...I was a gymnast for 17 yrs, almost made it onto the Atlanta Olympic team...I want to get back into that and possibly teach! But in the shape I'm at now...NO WAY!

I buy cute, kind of expensive, clothes in sizes smaller, towards my goal weight, and that helps motivate me. If I'm never able to wear them, I'll feel like I wasted money, and I hate that feeling. When I am able to wear them, I have a nice reward.

I have two main sources of motivation.

1) The way I feel. I love to play basketball, go running, and be generally active, but it's so much less fun when I'm significantly overweight. So sometimes I just imagine what it'll be like when I lose it all and I can grab the rim, run a 5K really fast, or take up capoeira. I like to watch videoclips of insane athletes or just a basketball game or track event on t.v. That's always really good inspiration.

2) Having recently broken up with my long-time girlfriend, I want to look good so I can trick... er, convince another great woman to go out with me. All I need to be motivated for this is see all the hot women walking around. And notice how differently women treat me now that I'm heavy. (Mostly, like I'm not even there.)

My motivation changes day by day... some days I look at pictures of myself at 135 (when I thought I was FAT!) and remeber how much fun shopping was, and how people saw me not my weight!

Somedays I focus on building lean muscle and looking totally buff.

Other days I think about that baby that I want to have with my husband and how much better off we all will be if I am at my goal weight when I get pregnant and how much easier it will be to lose the weight will be if I was thin to start out with.

And, just about EVERY day, I think about how I want to look HOT wearing nothing but my birthday suit when my husband gets home from his next deployment!!! And I want to be able to tease him with pictures while he is gone - give him someone sexy to come home to.

My motivation is the clothes in my closet, knowing that I feel good, having people compliment me on my weight loss, and dh's 10yr reunion. With all of these things combined, it has been pretty easy to get back into the swing of things.

It is kind of foolish, but ever since I was small I felt I should be wildly famous, for one reason or another. I have not yet figured out what is so special about me, but lately I have begun taking an interest in dancing and fashion, both areas where extra pounds hinder you.