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I just got one heck of a challenge...

PocketNaomi
PocketNaomi Posts: 62
edited September 2024 in Motivation and Support
My mother, who has been heroically not urging me to diet for the past two years, but has been silently worrying about me until I decided to do it for my own reasons, has offered me a reward challenge.

When I reach 155 pounds, she'll give me a thousand dollars.

When I reach 130, my final target weight (my intended maintenance weight is 135, but I assume I'll gain back a couple of pounds after I go off the strict diet, so I'm aiming for 130 initially), she'll pay for tickets for myself and my kids to go from Seattle to New York for a visit with her and with our other family and friends in New York. I can't afford to visit my family often, and that's an absolutely golden prize for me.

Since I intended to go after these weights anyway, I'm delighted. She did a good job of not pushing me till I was ready to diet for my own motivations, not from the outside, and now she's helping me along.

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