[aerotigergirl]

Recently, as I've been on this weight loss journey (with all of its ups and downs, scale-wise, emotional, and otherwise) I've gotten some really good advice from friends (here, through quotes, and IRL). And, I've been thinking that since we're all going through some of the same things, I wanted to share the words of my friends (IRL), along with some inspirational quotes that help me out from time to time, so that maybe they can also help you in a time when you're down.

1. "If you failed today, don't fret. I've watched you do the right thing for 30 (X) days in a row right before this! Do not get dragged down by your mis-hap, but instead, celebrate all those great days where you did exactly what you set out to do! And then tomorrow, start a new chain of successful days!"

2. "The only way that your plan stops working is if you stop working the plan. You have to work hard for it, if you want it to work hard for you."

3. "Promise me you'll always remember---you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - Christopher Robin to Pooh

4. "Your stubbornness is what is going to get you there. You are stronger than this thing. You made a promise to yourself, and you don't have the ability to not see it through!"

5. "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." - D. Eisenhower

6. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." -Unknown

7. "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. " - R.W.Emerson

8. "I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not surrender. I will win. I will triumph. I will never, ever quit. Remember winners are just losers who got MAD! Keep on keeping on."

9. "Look what you've done for yourself! If you never lose another pound, you have 20+ reasons to be proud of yourself already."

10. "That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased." - R.W. Emerson

These are just a few thoughts (I am addicted to quotes, I swear ) that keep me going when the going gets tough. Of course, I'm continually inspired by people that I've met here, and the helpful advice that everyone here has to offer, but I chose not to repeat anyone else's words in this particular list.

If you have some kind of inspirational quote that keeps you going, please share it! If it helps you feel strong, chances are it will help others feel strong, too! Thanks to everyone for all the support you share each day.

[la3y_un1c0rn_37]

good stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!(stands and claps)

[melekalikimaka]

Thanks for sharing this, I love it!!! I think I'll print it out and tape it next to my desk. I especially like #2!

One of my favorite quotes that keeps me going is from
Yoda: "Do or do not...there is no try"

[Jeep Girl]

Thanks for sharing these. I put quotes on business size cards print them out and laminate them. Every week I take them to my WW meeting and whoever wants to pick one can. Then the next week they can keep it or trade it on another. Some keep their cards for weeks other trade every week.

I have a couple favorites.....

1. I may not be where im going, but thank god im not where I use to be.

2. As long I don’t quit, I can't fail.

3. Don’t look back your not going that way.

4. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a rope and hang on.


Lynn

[Jeep Girl]

LOL ..That was supposed to say When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.......

Lynn

[lumifan4ever]

great quotes...thanks for sharing. i'll have to find one i particularly like and remember it when i'm having a really hard time staying focused on the challenge ahead of me.

[healthytoad]

From another board:

Goethe:
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Jim Rohn:
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Thomas Fuller:
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

Samuel Johnson:
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Marvin Phillips:
The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!

Plato:
The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Vincent Lombardi:
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything.

Leigh Hunt:
The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Anthony Robbins:
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

Roger Bannister:
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Mark Twain:
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Julius Erving:
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Jim Eason.:
If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

Unknown Author:
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.

Vince Lombardi:
It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.

Milton Garland:
My advice is to go into something and stay with it until you like it.

Winston Churchill:
Never, never, never, never give up.

Eleanor Roosevelt.:
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Horace:
Rule your mind or it will rule you.


Unknown Author:
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

Unknown Author:
You don't realize how strong a person really is until you see them at their weakest moment.

Ellen Degeneres:
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the **** she is.

Benjamin Franklin:
You may delay, but time will not.

David Viscott: You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

Eleanor Roosevelt:
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

George Bernard Shaw:
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

Ralph Marston:
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

George S. Patton: You're never beaten until you admit it.

Lee Iacocca:
You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.


Author unknown:
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.

Thomas Jefferson:
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Carl Sandburg:
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Harold Wilkins:
The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.

Heraclitus:
There is nothing permanent except change.

Swedish Proverb:
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.

Elie Wiesel:
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Martin Luther King, Jr.:
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Harriet Beecher Stowe:
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace:
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

[just_a_dreamy1]

Those are all awesome!

These aren't so much quotes as they are simple reminders, but they have pulled me through in the past and continue to help me during tough times

"I am not torturing/denying myself, I am rewarding myself with a happier, healthier, slimmer, sexier me!"

"This time it is all about moderation, accountability and incorporating my weight loss into my life instead of the other way around."

"You didn't gain the weight all in one day...remember that it's not going to come off in one day."

and, last but definately not least:

"You are beautiful just the way you are."