Motivation!!
 

Hiyaaa.. So. Im new to this forum. My question is. How do you stay motivated on your diets? I think my problem is just knowing that theres choclate in my house makes me *think* that i need it lol. Why is there chocolate in my house you ask? Because my partners a t**t!.. Lol. Comes home from work last night, sits next to me on the sofa and pulls out a big bag of cadburys chocolate buttons. Arrrgh! But did i resist? Yes i did. So how do you guys keep the motivation to stay away from these type of foods on your diets.. :D xxx

Hello and welcome! :) Motivation is a tough one. I think there are times that I have very little motivation. I do the best I can and a lot of times, when I feel like I"m gonna crack cuz I want something so much, I just lie to myself and tell myself that I can have it tomorrow. ;) Also, I have things that are similar that are still within my calorie range. So, when everyone is eating high calorie ice cream or chocolate, I have a low cal popsicle and chew on gum after. Sometimes I brush my teeth and that's that. If my partner was to do such a thing as eat something I love right in front of me, I'd probably just get up and go to another room. If they asked me where I was going, I'd say that I'm trying really hard to get healthy and this type of display isn't helping. That's just me though. ; ) Believe in yourself and imagine how proud you'll feel the day after you've been on plan and didn't stray.

Do you know what? I don't resist.

What I try to do is diet Mon-Fri and then let loose at the weekend. My housemate is a 23yr old boy who literally eats nothing but junk. Sometimes I resist, but mostly I have a small amount of whatever he's got. The way I look at it, if you're going to maintain your weight loss, you're not going to be able to cut out things for life. We're always going to binge and eat 4 or 5 biscuits now and then. Or an entire bag of doritos. Everyone does it - fat and thin.

I stayed with relatives at the weekend, 3 course meal Sat night, *several* gin & lemonades, 4 chocolate digestives in my coffee and roast lamb with all the trimmings on Sunday. I just got straight back on the wagon on Monday morning, and I'm 1lb down .

As long as you maintain your REGULAR healthy eating and exercise, and the chocolate buttons aren't a nightly munch, there's nothing wrong with it... or it works for me anyway :)

Before i fell off my diet ( at xmas :s) I had a wedding to get slim for, lost 5 stone by having a full on treat ban. If hubby want treats he had to eat them at work, if he brought them home i would throw them out. He used to tell me it was good for my will power to have it around.

I think a full on ban for the first few weeks then allow youself a bar IF you have the kcals left at the end off your day.

This would keep me on my diet, the thought of that choc bar with a cuppa in the eve. If i had a bad day i wasnt allowed my choccy.

I need to take my own advise!

Well if you ask me , i have had so many chocolates,junk food or even healthy food huge porions all this years that if i cut back for like 1 year, chocolate wont go extinct. Ofc i eat a piece here n there, but one small piece a week is enough for me, cause my 2lb loss every week is far more precious than chocolate :)
I actually get annoyed if my partner watches what he eats in front of me(the few times that he did it anyways), i learnt that everything that goes in my mouth is my own choice and responsibility, and even if it was harder in the beginning i now can completely ignore whatever anyone is eating around me.
Doing all this, and seeing results, thats what keeps me motivated.

And welcome to 3fc :)

Hiya, Im new here too.

I'm not really sure if this is motivation or not..... but it usually works for me............

I have a playlist on youtube, the tracks run for over an hour, so I dance to it continuiously, holding small weights (okay, the small weights aren't actually weights, they are cans of beans, but still!!) and I make it my mission to dance to it everyday - the whole playlist, it's actually quite fun dancing about to your favourite tracks!

And after I've danced myself into a frenzy for an hour, theres no way am I about to undo all that by eating bad food. Am I making much sense? Probably not :D

I really like that idea JustGoGaGa. I might try it. :)

I am the biggest chocoholic ever! But when my mum suggested the following I laughed at her, but it actually works. When I have a massive craving that I can't seem to suppress I'll go and get some maltesers. It started with 10, now it's down to 6. I seem to have them every night. There can't be much in 6 maltesers I'm sure, but if you just suck on it and make it last, it's beautiful. :P And obviously I want to have the whole box - but afterwards I can reason with myself that I've had my chocolate for the day, and the next lot will come tomorrow. It's been working so far.

cantgetenoughchoc thats a great tip! I've done similar to that myself, another one is to cut a chocolate bar into little pieces, like a mars bar into 8 little chunks, stick them in the freezer and have a little piece when you fancy some chocolate, that way a whole bar lasts a lot longer, and stops me from eating more than 1 on that day.

I'm good if I'm by myself, my problem is I'm a waitress in a chain of pubs. I constantly have ridiculously calorific meals and desserts being paraded literally under my nose. I only get a break if I'm doing more than 6h in a shift so sometimes by the end of my shift I'm STARVING and if something's been made up wrong or there's leftovers of whatever, a chef hands me a free apple pie and custard or a bowl of onion rings and I'm gone...
I try SO hard but most of the time I find I'm too hungry to resist at moments like this :(
I go to the gym between 3 and 4 times a week and on my days off my meals and snacks are angelic and well within my calorie limit. But on days when I have long shifts? Any good work goes down the drain.
Any ideas at all please?! I'm really getting desperate!!! :(

To Katylil why not bring something like a slim fast bar or a protein bar with you to work if you are hungry and get caught short? They can be eaten quickly and you wont have to give into temptation.


For me i just don't want to eat that crap or waste that many calories. I work hard to make sure i get pleasure and fulfilment out of non food activities, that lessens my desire to eat a LOT.