I got motivated when we started planning a family trip to Barbados last winter. I decided that since I would be undoubtedly be appearing in many photos, I didn't want to be permanently ashamed whenever we show trip photos to friends and relatives. So, I decided to lose weight.
Part of what keeps me motivated is meditation and visualization. Every night when I go to bed, I meditate for a bit and visualize my metabolism speeding up and my skin and body shrinking. (Ok, I skip a night or two per week, but MOST nights!) I've also got myself convinced that the weight loss in inevitable, and practically done and all I have to do is live through intervening months to where it is finally reality. If that makes sense? In other words, I've decided that in the future, the weight loss has already happened
and is a fact and all I have to do is go through the proper motions in order to get to that time where I've already lost the weight. Nothing can stop me.
All it takes is compete dedication and singleminded focus.
And starvation and torture.