What keeps you going day after day???

Most of my day to day goals are not weight loss oriented. I set daily goals like staying within my macros or hitting a certain point in my fitness goals. Sometimes it is a simple as just following a meal plan for a single day. All I am thinking about is today, and I only have to get through today. I'll deal with tomorrow when it gets here.

1. No matter how far off track you get, keep logging. If you do nothing else but log your meals you will see progress. Seriously.

2. Everything is your choice. You are choosing to eat healthy foods. You are choosing to log. You are choosing to exercise. The junk food will be there tomorrow if you want it, just choose to eat for your goals today.

The scale is a trend tool. The scale is good but put it away and only check once a week and only use it as a trend tool, the same with other metrics. Take front, side, and back progress pictures at least once a month. You will see differences that the metrics won't tell you and it's that little bit of NSV that will keep you going until the next victory.

Keep track of ALL NSV's and ride one victory to the next. Keep your focus on your final prize, and all your prizes along the way.

I am having the hardest time staying focused and on track. Or I mess up once and just say, "I'll start again next week". How do I avoid that? Then I get depressed and mad at myself and of course, that makes it worse.... HELP!:sad:

I think you need to figure out what it is you tell yourself that gives you permission to skip out on doing what you know you need to do. Of course it's hard. If it were easy no one would be overweight. If you decide it is mandatory that you to care for your body so you can have the quality of life you want, it will make things much simpler.

Do you go to work or school every day? What makes you do everything else you need to do even if you don't feel like it? Discipline yourself to commit & the rest will fall into place.

So helpful to see all these inspirations

What keeps you going day after day???

Fear.

I was a "I'll start next week" kind of person as well...until time ran out and I almost died because I couldn't stop eating.

I have to work in short goals. I couldn't have done this by saying "I need to lose 65 pounds and get toned". Every 10 pounds or so I treated myself with a pedicure (I don't get those normally, it's a treat) or a new pair of shoes or something. That's what keeps me going. My short term goals also include special occassions. Like for 3 weeks I've been thinking about this fancy party I have to go to next weekend, and I want to look good.

bump.. I'm going to read this when I'm getting tempted to slip up :flowerforyou:

I do not say I am on a diet. I say that I am now living a healty lifestyle. If I eat pizza for lunch I still do my workout and eat as if I would normally would for dinner. I follow the 80/20 rule. I eat right 80% of the time and have fun with food 20% of the time. I enjoy working out so that is not an issue for me. Good Luck!

I focus on doing the best I can today. Even if I slip up once or twice, I don't "start over tomorrow" and throw the rest of the day out the window because of it. One slip-up doesn't ruin a day unless you let it.

I'm not perfect, but here is what have kept me on track since I started this journey in January:

1. Experiment with different foods until you find a healthy eating style that makes you happy, excited and fulfilled by what you eat. If you think of your new foods as a punishment you'll never be happy and you'll never stick to it. Mine is eating vegetarian/vegan (I've found some delicious recipes!) for most of the work week, then expanding my foods during the weekend/social events but always staying under cals. ANd hey, if i want ice cream once day i will, i jsut have to make it fit intro my cals!

2. Discover what floats your boat with exercising so that you are happy, excited and fulfilled by how you workout. I tried bootcamp, kickboxing, crossfit. But each one felt like a chore. Now I run, do yoga, Zumba and Pilates with a Jillian DVD thrown in every once and a while and I never miss a workout without even trying!

3. There are a lot of philosophies out there to help you mentally cope as you transition to adopting this as a true lifestyle. These are the ones that helped me: It took you your whole life to learn how to eat bad. It's going to take a while to learn how to eat well. And finally, this IS a journey. Every once and a while you will misstep, get off on the wrong exit. But when that happens do you decide, dang, oh well, I guess ill just spend the day here--or in your case, the whole week here? Or do you brush yourself off right then, reroute and get back on the road to where you're headed?

hope this helps!

I started losing weight 2 months ago and my own philosophy is: "motivation gets results; results give you motivation"

Find a very good and strong reason to lose weight and set a goal:

1. Fit in that dress.
2. Find The One guy/girl.
3. Telling that ex bf/gf: "In your face!!!"
4. Run that marathon nobody would believe you could
5. etc.

This reason will help to start hitting the gym and eating healthy and will keep you strong for the first weeks, then, when you start seeing some progress you will feel more motivated to keep going.

This worked for me, every time I want to eat those delicious tacos or I'm feeling too tired to go to the gym all I have to do is to remember that reason that made me do this.