Motivation

CandyCrush78

So far I have lost 2 pounds. Just started the app. Looking for some motivation to help me stay on track with my workouts.

springlering62

Check out success stories:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/success-stories

This is my favorite success story thread and kept me going through many a “down” patch. An NSV means a Non-Scale Victory aka a victory that happens when the scale hasn’t moved:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1275030/whats-your-most-recent-nsv

thesaint333999

I'm just starting out too. I found an excellent book you can get at a Used Book store for just a couple of bucks. It's called Fit or Fat and the author is Covert Bailey. He is excellent and talks about how the fat on our body can only be burned up through our muscle by exercising such as Walking 5 or 6 times a week. And lifting weights builds more muscle to burn more fat. That is the truth! And after a workout you need to drink milk and eat foods that are high in protein so that your body will develop muscle to burn more fat. Eat protein every 2 or 3 hours to continue building muscle. Nonfat Milk is great for building muscle if you can drink it.

AnnPT77

The best motivation to work out is finding some activity that's relatively enjoyable for you, and fits into your life well. Ideal is something you enjoy so much you'd do it even if it weren't good for you.

Sometimes people think that exercise has to be some miserable, exhausting gym-only thing that they hate doing, or it won't be beneficial. That's a complete myth.

Exercise we enjoy (or at least tolerate) so will do regularly is 100% more beneficial than a theoretically perfect exercise that we hate, procrastinate, skip with the slightest excuse, and often ultimately give up altogether.

On top of that, fitness improvement happens best through some activity that's just a mild, manageable bit of challenge to our current fitness level. As we get fitter, we can do more, and we increase the length, intensity, frequency or type of exercise to keep that mild, manageable challenge going. That's fitness improvement, in a nutshell.

There are lots of options: Sure, gym stuff is on the list if you like it, but there's also walking, dancing, swimming, bicycling, active VR or video games, bowling, ping-pong, canoeing/kayaking/rowing, frisbee, hula hoop . . . and on and on. It doesn't even have to be the same thing every time, necessarily.

Any kind of moving more is beneficial. Finding something enjoyable omits the need for "motivation", mostly.

aaronthebodybuilderofficial

Congratulations on losing 2 lbs!!!

ecjim

That's how you do it - 2 lbs at a time - keep it up