sentence/phrase that helps you stay focused/eating/exercisin

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  • kmarti
    kmarti Posts: 5
    My favorite 2 -

    A year from now you will wish you started today...

    No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everyone sitting on the couch...

    I have these posted right next to my bed, so I see them when I get up every morning. Makes me continue to work even when I don't want to!
  • k9runner1963
    k9runner1963 Posts: 108 Member
    "Keep moving forward" and "No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everyone on the couch!"
  • k9runner1963
    k9runner1963 Posts: 108 Member
    My favorite 2 -

    A year from now you will wish you started today...

    No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everyone sitting on the couch...

    I have these posted right next to my bed, so I see them when I get up every morning. Makes me continue to work even when I don't want to!

    Great minds think alike!
  • ryn013
    ryn013 Posts: 116
    I have a few :smile:

    Eat clean, train dirty.
    If you don't work for it, you don't deserve it.
    The task ahead of you is never greater than the strength within you.
    If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up.
    Wake up with determination, go to bed with satisfaction.
    Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done.
    Suck it up, and one day you won't have to suck it in.
    A little sweat never hurt anyone.
    The only bad workout is the one that never happened.
    Strong is the new skinny.
    It took more than a day to put on. It will take more than a day to take it off. Move.
  • JDMPWR
    JDMPWR Posts: 1,863 Member
    It's tattooed on me. "You Shall Overcome"
  • ProjectSara
    ProjectSara Posts: 83 Member
    Whenever I'm feeling a little wishy-washy about exercising, I remind myself: "You'll regret not doing it. You won't regret doing it." It's always true, and knowing that helps get me moving.
  • LiteBrite007
    LiteBrite007 Posts: 294 Member
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    This is what I say if it gets to hard.
  • jhook11
    jhook11 Posts: 6
    "shut the window"

    from my Weight Watchers leader. If you left a window open at home or your car, and it started raining. Would you leave the window open and just say "oh well, damage is already done" or would you go shut the window? When I find myself eating junk, or too much of anything I hear her voice in my head saying "shut the window now!" and it usually works.
  • LaurieMaynard
    LaurieMaynard Posts: 18 Member
    Small changes lead to big results!
  • northernbeaver
    northernbeaver Posts: 29
    mine would be "if you believe, then you can achieve"
  • justkrissy
    justkrissy Posts: 146 Member
    I don't know why but my favorite is Jillian Michaels' "Unless you puke, faint or die, keep going." lol! A little intense, but when I'm doing a hard workout and really feel it burning and want to give up, I think of that saying and always end up pushing myself harder.
  • JanuaryJan
    JanuaryJan Posts: 39
    "Perserverance is the key to success!"

    also

    "If nothing changes, nothing changes"!
  • JanuaryJan
    JanuaryJan Posts: 39
    Mine is, when I'm exercising and really wanting to quit, because I'm sweating or it's just plain hard is:

    Ha! My fat is crying. CRY FAT:cry: ...CRY:cry:

    How about you?

    Ha!! love this! I'm going to use it too! Thanks!! Cry fat cry! :sad:
  • dmf80
    dmf80 Posts: 60
    "You have already been running for 3 hours, what's another hour? - marathon mindset
  • FoodieGal09
    FoodieGal09 Posts: 198 Member
    "Thin thighs, thin thighs, thin thighs", it's like my mantra.
    I also like "cry fat, CRY!". Totally stealing that one.
  • melruiz5
    melruiz5 Posts: 134 Member
    If you worked out when you 1st thought about it, you'd be done by now

    I workout as soon as i wake up in the AM, and if i WANT to sleep in, that phrase ALWAYS comes to mind(automatically) and then i get my butt out of bed, EVERYTIME lol
  • laurieblair2012
    laurieblair2012 Posts: 106
    At my gym, there is an 8 1/2" x 11" printed-out picture on the bulletin board of a little blonde-haired boy, maybe 4 or 5 years old, with two artificial legs...he is running a race on a track with a HUGE smile on his face. It's made it's way around the internet a time or four, so you've probably seen it. Anyway, it says at the bottom of the picture, "Your Excuse Is Invalid." I guess that resonates with me the most...I just can't come up with an excuse that beats that little boy's smiling face. If he can be happy running on two artificial legs, I can get my fat *kitten* out of bed every morning and drag it to the gym.

    Rock on, little man, wherever you are. :)
  • indiepops
    indiepops Posts: 96
    thats mine: NOTHING tastes as good as THIN FEELS. gt it posted in my office and always look at it when i feel the LNS coming on xx
  • Caramel2610
    Caramel2610 Posts: 22
    bump - will write a few of these down 2moro
  • Caramel2610
    Caramel2610 Posts: 22
    NICE

    Benjamin Franklin
    You may delay, but time will not.

    David Viscott
    You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

    Eleanor Roosevelt
    You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

    George Bernard Shaw
    You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

    Ralph Marston
    Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

    George S. Patton
    You're never beaten until you admit it.

    Lee Iacocca
    You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

    Unknown Author
    You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

    Unknown Author
    You don't realize how strong a person really is until you see them at their weakest moment.
  • Starsighter78
    Starsighter78 Posts: 62 Member
    To get/keep me motivated, mine lately has been "the half marathon can't run itself!" :smile:
  • kimberly0416
    kimberly0416 Posts: 123 Member
    $100 for a bathing suit
  • laurieblair2012
    laurieblair2012 Posts: 106
    To get/keep me motivated, mine lately has been "the half marathon can't run itself!" :smile:

    LOL a lot of the time when I "check in" on Facebook at the gym, I write "Because this butt won't shrink itself..."
  • Thedamnyankee
    Thedamnyankee Posts: 2
    If you run to the beer store, you can have one.
  • Ejwelton
    Ejwelton Posts: 331 Member
    When I'm delaying going running I ask myself if I have a reason not to go? usually the answer is no!
  • plainjane23
    plainjane23 Posts: 20
    MIne is, "I'll be able to cross surfing off my bucket list this summer!"
  • valenief
    valenief Posts: 134 Member
    $100 for a bathing suit

    This my hubby said I could order a Victoria Secret push up kind !!!
  • britcurl
    britcurl Posts: 110 Member
    Nothing Tastes as good as Skinny feels!!
  • shellykinder
    shellykinder Posts: 18 Member
    My favorite thing to tell myself is "If you are tired of starting over STOP giving up"
  • sl1ngsh0t
    sl1ngsh0t Posts: 326 Member
    mine is, "yes you can!"

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