[Slim CB]

Hi,

I recently started my weight loss journey and have not been doing too badly. I was always an avid exerciser...going to the gym at least 4 times a week. I have been doing this for about 4-5 years. However my eating was not under control and one day I woke up and was 37 lbs heavier. I have started monitoring my eating and have lost 23 lbs since June.

However I have noticed that for the past month, my motivation is decreasing significantly. I still watch what I eat, but not so carefully as before, I make excuses not to go to the gym....and I do not know why I am doing this to myself.

How do you find the fuel to dig in and to go for the goal???

[xty]

Motivation is different for everyone - I really suggest trying to tap into yourself a bit to figure out what motivates *you*!

I tend to feel most motivated when I feel healthiest - note not when I *am* healthiest. Lol. So what makes me feel healthiest? I figured out the single thing that makes the most impact is a certain type of workout. If I can do just that ONE thing as a mandatory, regardless of if I feel motivated to, it actually causes me to get motivated! Neat trick

Some people do better when they have an accountability buddy or when they have a specific short term goal.

Maybe other people can offer you some ideas that will spur your own introspection.

[rockinrobin]

Originally Posted by Slim CB

Hi,

I recently started my weight loss journey and have not been doing too badly. I was always an avid exerciser...going to the gym at least 4 times a week. I have been doing this for about 4-5 years. However my eating was not under control and one day I woke up and was 37 lbs heavier. I have started monitoring my eating and have lost 23 lbs since June.

However I have noticed that for the past month, my motivation is decreasing significantly. I still watch what I eat, but not so carefully as before, I make excuses not to go to the gym....and I do not know why I am doing this to myself.

How do you find the fuel to dig in and to go for the goal???

I've got some news for you--- you will have to keep monitoring your food and exercising once you GET to goal, because if you don't, you won't remain there for very long.

Getting to a healthy weight and staying there is a life long endeavor.

It will take a life time of good choices to keep you at a healthy weight.

Why are you doing this to yourself you ask? Because you're allowing yourself to even ask you the question. You're putting it out there on the table. You've got to not make it a possibility that you won't do these things.

In other words, screw the motivation, it's not around 100% of the time - but commit to it -commitment - that's something you can rely on.

You've got to decide to do this, once and for all, no matter what and permanently. Meaning you do it, even if you don't feel like it.

Sure there will be times when you don't feel like it, but you'll have to push through it though, because you're determined to see it through.. because you're committed to it. Because it matters to you and it's a priority of yours.

You're doing just great. What a shame to mess it up now! So cut it out and please commit to taking this baby all the way home and keeping it there.

Get yourself back in the groove. Stop giving yourself permission to slip up. It's okay to push yourself. That is how your learn. That is how you grow. That is how your better yourself.

Stop talking yourself out of things and start talking yourself back into it. Give yourself a few tight days and you WILL be back in the groove.

I look forward to hearing of your continued progress.

[parkedout]

I think when I first started I posted this exact same thread!

Anyway- I will tell you the diet part of it gets really easy. When you stop looking at it as something you HAVE to do, and start thinking of it as a powerful choice you have made. The exercise part I won't say on-- because I still struggle with that. I will say it makes me feel great about myself and has benefits... but the main part of the battle for me was dietary changes.

I cannot tell you the last time I had pizza. Its just like with any other thing, the less you have of something -- the less you WANT of it. I do not crave pizza anymore, or fast food. I actually get upset having to go to McDonalds because I know I won't make a good choice there. Its not a happy time. Therefore I go there as few times as necessary.


Its an amazing feeling to be in a different weight 'decade'. Just keep moving. Write down your progress, and above all else- don't give up! You're worth the effort!

[fattymcfatty]

So I decide that a weekend in Tahoe and renting a cabin would be my reward for losing 50lbs. So I have 20 to go. My problem now is that I really want to go before the snow hits, and that is a lot of pressure...

UUGGGHHHH!!!!