How do you all stay motivated 🤔

tobie51762

How do you all stay motivated 🤔

George_1980

Best way i found is to have friends to help push you along. You push them too of course.

Alatariel75

I don't.

Motivation is fickle, and requires positive emotion.

I go for committed, determined and resigned.

For me, motivation is the emotion I need to do something above and beyond, something out of the ordinary, something optional.

I treat managing my diet and exercise the same way I treat managing my job, keeping my house clean, making sure my animals are looked after, my car is maintained. It's something I need to do if I don't want my environment to be yucky and miserable. Im not motivated to scrub the toilet and scoop the litter tray, but the alternative is not something I'm willing to live with, so I do it.

Honestly, reframing my mindset away from motivation to necessity has been the big, lasting change I needed.

prduk2000

Having a target to focus on helps. While I am motivated to lose weight, I am focused on healthy eating and exercising (following a program for cycling and running). This makes me accountable to myself.

AnnPT77

No way I'm staying motivated to do something unpleasant for the whole rest of my natural life.

For me, it was about finding new, relatively pleasant, practical new routine habits that were consistent with my long term goals, and that could operate almost on autopilot when other parts of life got demanding.

To lose weight, I decided I wasn't going to do anything I wasn't willing to continue long term to stay at a healthy weight, except for a sensibly moderate calorie deficit until I reached goal weight. Weight loss became like a fun, productive science fair project for grown ups, looking for those new habits then practicing them.

Along the way, some experiments don't work out as desired but that's OK. It's not a personal failure, it's just an opportunity to learn and cross something off the list of possible tactics, and try something different. Keep chipping away like that, don't give up, and success is probable.

No one approach works for everyone, but that's what's worked for me, so far. I was overweight/obese for around 30 years, have been at a healthy weight for 8+ years so far after just under a year to lose. It was more than worth the effort.

I think this is a different mindset from "going on a diet", white-knuckling through restrictive eating rules and punitive exercise, treating it as a project with an end date. IMO weight management is forever.

Best wishes!