Where do you get your motivation from when you start?

kjannan

A photo I was tagged in on facebook motivated me. I was lying on a blanket at the beach & my stomach looked pregnant. I untagged myself & got up off my butt.

I now exercise most days, I'm scared that if I have more than 1 day off I'll lose motivation! I've been going now for 8 months but it's only been in the last 4 weeks since I started on here & monitored my calories that I've lost weight.

If I feel like giving up I come on here & look through peoples success stories. The photos on there work well for me!!

Fit4sure

I was sick and hopeless and suffering from pain in my chest (and numbness in my left arm and shoulder) on a daily basis and figured I was going to do soon. I joined a weight loss group and was bound and determined to work the program even if only 5 lbs. came off in the year. The first week 6 lbs. came off. That leader said something that stuck with me for many more pounds...(120 of them total) and that was:

"It's not about "will-power" but about "WANT-power". If you want something bad enough...you'll do what it takes. It finally clicked for me that I wanted to lose the weight and get healthier MORE than I wanted the stupid candy bar.



Now...I stay motivated (after over 5 years at and below goal weight) by what I see in the mirror, the size of my clothes, the appreciative looks from my husband (and other men!) and how I feel.

Also...I had some motivators along the way that boosted the initial motivation...several "aha" moments have occured all along this little journey. One of the biggest ones was the doctor who examined me and said my heart was enlarged from the high blood pressure that I had for so many years and wasn't confident that I would succeed in getting the weight off. He told me that "genetically" I was dis-inclined to get it off. He said if I WAS able to get my weight down, I probably wouldn't be able to keep it off due to genetics in my family.

Them's "fightin' words" to this Texas gal...I took it for a dare!

I said..."you just watch me"! He did...in amazement and he's so stinkin' proud of me after 5 years (I beat the stinkin' statistics that says I'll gain it back)!