What are your favorite mottos for keeping motivated?

DJ7203
DJ7203 Posts: 497 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Right now mine are.......

What's more important: The way that cookie tastes or the way I look naked?

Suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret, it's your choice....

Happy Monday!
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  • BigT555
    BigT555 Posts: 2,067 Member
    mine is probably one of the more common sayings you'll hear around here;

    losing weight is hard,
    maintaining weight is hard,
    staying fat is hard,
    choose your hard.
    if i feel a binge coming on or if im tempted to skip a workout i just think of this and it seems to put my mind at ease, knowing that its hard for everyone but you have to pick your battles. battling obesity is something that i never want to do again
  • Cookieman123
    Cookieman123 Posts: 26 Member
    I want to be a serious actor.
    I want to see a beautiful woman naked in person and not on red tube.
    I want to like, you know not die and stuff.

    Keeping it simple.
  • galprincess
    galprincess Posts: 683 Member
    Mine is simply I carried 3 babies for 9 months each so if it took that long to grow a bump and gain weight it wont be lost overnight 1 day at a time
  • dettiot
    dettiot Posts: 180 Member
    "I can and I will"--it covers all the bases for me and it's simple. When I was running the Baltimore Ten Miler on Saturday and really struggling, I kept repeating that phrase over and over and it kept me running right up to the finish line. :smile:
  • WreckaRed
    WreckaRed Posts: 116 Member
    Trophy Wife! Sexy mom!
    I am just an everyday stay at home mom in Iowa, but it's fun to think of being that sexy wife/mom!
  • DJ7203
    DJ7203 Posts: 497 Member
    These are all so great so far, thanks for sharing with me :happy:
  • missylectro
    missylectro Posts: 448 Member
    If you want something you've never had, you gotta do something you've never done - Unknown
  • rachel865
    rachel865 Posts: 7 Member
    "I can and I will"--it covers all the bases for me and it's simple. When I was running the Baltimore Ten Miler on Saturday and really struggling, I kept repeating that phrase over and over and it kept me running right up to the finish line. :smile:

    ^^^ This! I have it as the lock screen / background on my phone so I see it multiple times every day. More than once just seeing it reminded me of my goal and motivated me to do a little more that day.
  • bizgirl26
    bizgirl26 Posts: 1,795 Member
    If you want something you've never had, you gotta do something you've never done - Unknown

    So true . I like this one
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    I lift this now so I can give you the Prince Oberyn tomorrow.
  • joyful_fit
    joyful_fit Posts: 25
    Bump to read for later!
  • heather_hearts_travel
    heather_hearts_travel Posts: 864 Member
    Two that help me when I'm struggling:
    If you want to stop starting over, stop giving up.
    A year from now, you'll wish you'd started today. (modified: you'll wish you hadn't given up today!)

    When I'm exercising:
    If it's worth the time to do, it's worth the effort to do it well.
  • ucabucca
    ucabucca Posts: 606 Member
    muscle isn't built with magic workouts or rep ranges.
    Its built with hard work and consistency


    No one can defeat me unless I first defeat myself
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    I'm not a big motto person but Vince Lombardi has some great ones:

    I firmly believe that any man’s finest hours – his greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear – is that moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.

    Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.

    The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    Don't really have one...just knowing I am still fat gives me enough to go on...
  • momxs2
    momxs2 Posts: 173 Member
    "I can and I will"--it covers all the bases for me and it's simple. When I was running the Baltimore Ten Miler on Saturday and really struggling, I kept repeating that phrase over and over and it kept me running right up to the finish line. :smile:

    ^^^
    THIS!!

    Love this one!!

    "I can and I will"......I may add this to my profile!! Thx!
  • amykay9377
    amykay9377 Posts: 98 Member
    Okay, my motto is a bit unconventional, but let me explain the backstory:

    I weigh 215 pounds, I'm an ex-smoker (15 years) and have EIA. I was doing my first half at Disney in 2013 (the Princess) and had been behind pace since Mile 7. The balloon ladies were gone, and the bike guys were threatening hard sweeps (i.e. "you have 5 minutes to get to Mile 9"). I made it past Mile 9, and I had only a few minutes to get to the overpass at Mile 10. As I came up to Mile 10, there was a bus there (the sag wagon). I pulled up beside it and it dropped in gear! I passed it, and was thus safe from being swept. I went on to finish the half with a pathetically respectable time of 4:12:32.

    And what was the mantra? Well, on my left foot I would say "Mother..." and with my right foot I would say..... well, you know what word follows!

    It got me through three of the HARDEST miles I've ever done in my life, and when I'm pushing myself hard in a race, or doing speedwork or whatever, that is the first thing that comes out. "Today I do" is all well and good, but you can't beat a good curse word, especially when it means so much!
  • CCSavage88
    CCSavage88 Posts: 191
    -Eat to be fit, not skinny

    -Ignore the demons that were once feeding you
  • joansjourney
    joansjourney Posts: 110
    The only person you need to be better than.. is the person you were yesterday.

    You can choose to get bitter or better.. I'm choosing to get better everyday.

    The only bad workout is the one that didn't happen. (I remember this when I only have time to do 15 minutes of activity)

    And my personal all time favorite:

    IF I QUIT NOW, I WILL SOON BE BACK TO WHERE I STARTED AND WHEN I STARTED I WAS DESPERATELY WISHING TO BE WHERE I AM NOW.
  • kristysaurus
    kristysaurus Posts: 91 Member
    I have "Tuum Est" tattooed on my arm. It means "it is yours" or "it is up to you"

    That is my inspiration for life in general but it still rings true for weight loss.
  • ROBOTFOOD
    ROBOTFOOD Posts: 5,527 Member
    Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.
  • fivethreeone
    fivethreeone Posts: 8,196 Member
    Do the things that must be done.
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    For walking/running:

    "Let's go, Fatty McFatterson."

    I say it to my mini horse as we get ready for a walk/run.

    For lifting:

    "TIME TO GET SWOLE!" Afterwards, I grab my son and run around the house like King Kong with Jane.
  • mommyelly85
    mommyelly85 Posts: 30
    Mines right now is:

    "I have loved food long enough, now it's time to love my body"
  • Galatea_Stone
    Galatea_Stone Posts: 2,037 Member
    Shake it off.

    Suck it up, Buttercup.

    I say one of these every time I start to feel like not going or when I want to quit before I'm finished.
  • Lilly_the_Hillbilly
    Lilly_the_Hillbilly Posts: 914 Member
    The difference between possible and impossible is often in the womans determination.
  • AbsolutelyAnnie
    AbsolutelyAnnie Posts: 2,695 Member
    1. Be fabulous.

    2. How horrible would it be to turn heads?

    3. Rest well beloved. Tomorrow we battle.
  • mjbowman821
    mjbowman821 Posts: 66 Member
    As for me I have a couple.

    I have had my "Before" body long enough, I need to get my "After" body.

    I can't get the body I want without working for it. You will appreciate the things you worked for more.
  • Katrina_vw91
    Katrina_vw91 Posts: 232 Member
    "If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you."
  • mrsolsonwaters3
    mrsolsonwaters3 Posts: 12 Member
    Have some compassion for yourself.

    Do better today than yesterday.

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