Motivation Low, Halfway Through...

MrsOMG

I am totally struggling at the moment. I have managed to not gain any lbs but not losing any either. Boo! I am blaming it on illness and season change, and this week found the clocks going back motivating as been doing morning exercise, but my diet is shocking.

Need motivation, any one else got the last 5-10lbs to shift before Xmas? Help!

Eleanorjanethinner

How can you be unmotivated when you've made progress? I'm so excited at my loss and success and being thinner than I've been for years that I'm super motivated! I've got another 10 pounds to reach my goal and I guess I'll get there by the holidays or thereabouts.

I guess it's up to you- do you want to do the work and reap the rewards or stay as you are?

1a1a

Time to take on a fitness challenge perhaps? I recommend the 30 Day shred. It'll test you, but you'll come out fitter and tougher and quite probably a little slimmer.

Also good motivation to exercise, a heart rate monitor (if you don't already have one).

Congrats on your progress thus far :-)

MrsOMG

Time to take on a fitness challenge perhaps? I recommend the 30 Day shred. It'll test you, but you'll come out fitter and tougher and quite probably a little slimmer.

Also good motivation to exercise, a heart rate monitor (if you don't already have one).

Congrats on your progress thus far :-)

Aww thank you that is the kind of really positive response I need! Fitness challenge is a great idea. I'll look into the shred, have you had good results?

1a1a

You are welcome :-D

My results were pretty undramatic (as in, I can't see the difference in my before and after pics......they probably would have been better if I had eaten better meh, I like to eat) but, after shredding for a week, I felt thinner (regardless of if this was or wasn't the case) which I took to be a good thing, my endurance and strength both improved (40 minute bike ride? Psssssh, I'll do two, carry my guitar amp into the rehearsal room?!! Heck yeah, I don't need that sack truck anymore) and some weeks after completion, I'm inclined to say it kickstarted my weight loss, things are fitting now that didn't before and some kilos have disappeared (yay/this is probably from a combination of shredding and enthusiastically embracing a lot of other cardio type things plus the dreaded calorie deficit).

Feel free to add me for exercise motivation. You could jump on here too if you were so inclined http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/331789--tlfc-exercise-and-accountability-support

I might add that, along with cycling/walking/aerobics, post shred, I'm now tackling turbofire which I'll also give the thumbs up to, and, I have read around the place that Ripped in 30 is even better than the shred (as in, better structured, less stressful, more stretching, beware the lack of stretching. Do the shred, do some extra leg stretches after, not enough on the video itself). I would do the shred anyway as a kind of right of passage anyway just so you know that you can :-)