Phrase/Mantra

150poundsofme
150poundsofme Posts: 523 Member
edited November 20 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi, I am looking for a short (just a few words) strong phrase/mantra that I can repeat when temptation is calling me and also when I feel like I am faltering and going to go off my eating plan. Any suggestions? Thank you!!!
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  • VeronicaA76
    VeronicaA76 Posts: 1,116 Member
    I am going to make you so proud! - Note to self

    To everyone that said I couldn't: I will not prove them right
  • Sashslay
    Sashslay Posts: 136 Member
    Don't give up what you want for what you want right now!
  • rmgnow
    rmgnow Posts: 375 Member
    Just eat more then.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    After learning about the Addictive Voice Recognition Technique in Rational Recovery, I learned that just shouting NO! at my addictive voice works well.
  • pkweier
    pkweier Posts: 349 Member
    For when you have a bad day:
    Success is not final. Failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts
  • jayemes
    jayemes Posts: 865 Member
    It's not going to be easy but it's going to be worth it.

    Small changes can make a big difference.

    I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

  • Stationagentjules
    Stationagentjules Posts: 57 Member
    Sometimes when I'm tempted by something junky that I haven't accommodated for (luv ya Cheetos) or I'm with a group of friends who are plowing through nachos with wild abandon, I tell myself "that's not food" or "that's not my food".

    For staying on track with daily walks/runs, I can't give myself an option of not doing it, so my morning mantra for hitting the pavement is "it's just what I do now".

    Reading these back they sound restrictive, but I only pull them out in emergencies.
  • cbihatt
    cbihatt Posts: 319 Member
    Mostly I just remind myself of how I would feel later. No mantra required.
  • repertoire
    repertoire Posts: 53 Member
    Passion and Purpose. Not Perfection. (this is my mantra)
  • toxikon
    toxikon Posts: 2,383 Member
    "Slow and steady".

    "If it's not worth tracking, it's not worth eating" (How I make myself input all my recipe ingredients into the MFP Recipe Builder, haha).

    To myself: "Aren't you curious to see how you look and feel at your goal weight?" (I've been 150-160lbs for my entire teenager/adult life... I'm seriously curious to see how I look at 130lbs!!)
  • eisterunicorn
    eisterunicorn Posts: 158 Member
    orangegato wrote: »
    Someone here posted this once:
    It feels better being thin than being hungry

    wait what? .-.
  • rmgnow
    rmgnow Posts: 375 Member
    cheryldumais wrote: »
    My favorite has been "I might as well log everything because my body counts calories perfectly".

    Absolutely, it always trips me out when people don't log, because your body is always logging
  • orangegato
    orangegato Posts: 6,572 Member
    eisterunicorn wrote: »
    orangegato wrote: »
    Someone here posted this once:
    It feels better being thin than being hungry

    wait what? .-.

    whoops? Guess I misquoted...maybe it was "...than *not* being hungry"
  • 150poundsofme
    150poundsofme Posts: 523 Member
    Thank you all!!!!! Just do it!
  • laurabadams
    laurabadams Posts: 201 Member
    Be where your feet are

    (For me that meant realizing I have control of the moment, even if I'm dwelling on what I've already done or constantly longing for what may - or may not - be.)
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Losing weight is hard. Being overweight is hard. Choose your hard.
  • theabsentmindednurse
    theabsentmindednurse Posts: 404 Member
    Break your bad habits and make better ones
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,641 Member
    Wait till tomorrow.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    "I am strong. I am beautiful. I am enough."
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,839 Member
    This is my new normal.
  • 150poundsofme
    150poundsofme Posts: 523 Member
    :)
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,320 Member
    Right now, I'm choosing who my future self will be.
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