Waht keeps you motivated?

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  • holli1ch
    holli1ch Posts: 673 Member
    SarahMWong15 wrote: »
    I have my wedding coming up in a couple of years! I really want to be able to wear a dress I want without shying away because of my tummy fat or anything. I want to be happy looking at my photos and for those photos to always be motivation to stay fit (after I get there)

    What a great attitude you have. Stay focused and you will get where you want to be!
  • caloricus
    caloricus Posts: 591 Member
    edited January 2020
    Still looking for that carrot but my very immediate goal is to drop two pounds each week for these last two weeks of January. Maybe in that time I will have a carrot goal.
  • holli1ch
    holli1ch Posts: 673 Member
    edited January 2020
    caloricus wrote: »
    Still looking for that carrot but my very immediate goal is to drop two pounds each week for these last two weeks of January. Maybe in that time I will have a carrot goal.

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    Caloricus,
    You can do this!
  • holli1ch
    holli1ch Posts: 673 Member
    Wednesday
    Hump day
    1/2 way through the work week day

    Exercise day!

    Great eating day!

    We CAN do this day!
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,324 Member
    getting older and realizing that if I don't exercise, get strong.. I'll age even faster.

    Vanity used to work great for me when I was younger. A trip, a special event. But, once you pass middle age the stakes get higher.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I'm over 7 years in...I don't really need a ton of motivation. I enjoy eating well and I enjoy the exercise I do which is primarily riding bikes (road or mountain). My initial motivation was some really bad blood work on my 38th birthday checkup. Off the charts triglycerides, very high cholesterol, high blood pressure, pre-diabetic blood glucose levels and a BMI of 36.1 which put me in the obese category. My dad had the same type of issues at that age and never did anything about it...he ended up with diabetes and passed away from a massive heart attack when he was only 61, about a year after I started my weight loss and fitness life.

    I knew my dad was in bad health and I didn't want to go down that road. At the time I had a two year old and an infant at home...so my main motivation was being able to be around to be there for my boys and watch them grow and to be around later in life so my wife and I can enjoy retirement together.
  • YellowD0gs
    YellowD0gs Posts: 693 Member
    Hi! What keeps me motivated? The memory of waking up very early one morning last May in an ICU unit with an intubation tube down my throat, about a half dozen IV lines in both arms, a couple of other drainage tubes in other places, 2 stents in my heart, a searing pain from CPR and defibrillation, and my wife explaining how many heart attacks I had that night. Don't need to go through that again, and healthy eating and weight loss is now a much easier concept. 56 years old, 6'4, 250 (now 225 and working on it).

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