My motivation is being a parent. By all means don't go having a baby to motivate yourself to lose weight. lol
Honestly, beside vanity and being a parent and wanting to set a better example... My motivation is health. My mother and her mother are diabetic, my 13 year old brother is pre diabetic with high cholesterol, and my father (who has never been in my life, but his brother is in my life, so I find things out) is diabetic and a few months ago he lost his right leg to diabetes.
I also have dreams of marriage and more children, and the fact of the matter is a majority of men simply are not interested in women my size. So if I want to even have a chance at a (semi) 'happily ever after' I need to lose weight.
I am a meal planner. It's not easy. But what I have done is with each new meal I prepare and enjoy, I write it down in a notebook with the serving size points value. I now have 2.5 notebook pages of foods and meals written out. I also blog the recipes so I don't forget them, because I ALWAYS tweak recipes.
I plan meals for 2 weeks out. I have my layout and I pull out 2 of them, which cover a full week, breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I plan meals and then shop for the items these meals call for if I don't already have them. I add a few other things like fruits and veggies for snacking, my veggie chips, diet sodas and such, and that's it. I do NOT buy ANYTHING that is not on my shopping list, no matter how tempting it may be.
I have, since beginning my weight loss journey, lost 50lbs and so I now have a 'before' pic that is pretty significant. I also have a recent body shot of myself. If I'm having a rough day, I look at those pictures a LOT to show myself that no matter how slow the process is, it IS paying off.
Hope I've given you some ideas.
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