can’t find motivation

hnic76

i will go the gym and be super motivated and eat good all day up until after dinner where i just become unmotivated and just not care and binge eat- i’m in the constant “ill start tomorrow” cycle ... i have serious goals i want to meet so why can’t i find ANY motivation.. anyone have any advice on how to stay motivated

88olds

Are your calories set too low? What are you bingining on?

Can you hold back some calories for the evening to plan some appealing snacks that fit your calorie budget?

Maybe you don’t need motivation. Maybe you would be better served by problem solving.

1Nana2many

Maybe you really need to sit down and figure out your why? I weighed 225 pounds for many years and I always lived on the theory “I gotta died of something” and kept eating. Then I retired a little earlier than planned due to business changes. I sat at home for the first six months, got depressed and gained nearly 25 additional pounds. I was vacuuming my living room and started feeling dizzy and sat down and looked up women’s heart attack symptoms and wondered if that’s where I was headed. Suddenly, it wasn’t really about me dying of “something “, it was more about what would it be like living with the results of a stroke? I knew a woman who had a severe stroke that made it impossible for her to ever speak well again and even though she could still get around well, it completely devastated her life. I don’t want to be that woman. I decided that I don’t have to be that woman. I decided that for the first time in my life I was really going to put my health and well-being in the forefront of my mind. I committed to logging on MFP everybite, every day and I decided I would not log any exercise because I wasn’t going to eat over my calorie limit. When I ran out of calories, I was done eating for that day. No excuses, no trade offs, nothing. If I screwed up and ate over my calories, then I finally learned that I could forgive myself and start tomorrow as a brand new day. The most important thing I had to repeatedly tell myself was that I am worth this effort. If not now, when? The first two weeks were the hardest...I had to stop myself from hitting the kitchen many times, each time reminding myself that I COULD do this! I read where one woman who was successful at her weight loss told herself if she got some craving or other she made a rule that she would wait 30 minutes and then if she still wanted some food or other she would get one serving of that food and eat it. I adopted her strategy. I started asking myself as I headed to the kitchen if I was actually hungry...most of the time I was wanting to eat because I was stressing. Stop killing yourself at the gym, be kind to yourself, forgive yourself and take a step forward to a healthier you. You ARE WORTH IT!

Losingweightforgood2019

hnic76 wrote: »

i will go the gym and be super motivated and eat good all day up until after dinner where i just become unmotivated and just not care and binge eat- i’m in the constant “ill start tomorrow” cycle ... i have serious goals i want to meet so why can’t i find ANY motivation.. anyone have any advice on how to stay motivated

Like what is your reasoning for being healthier or /and losing weight? Would that motivate you?