What is your ultimate motivator?

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  • somehotchick
    somehotchick Posts: 3 Member
    Being sore the next day, for some reason it makes me want to work out more so I pick out a Victoria Secret bathing suit and hang it (or picture of it) where I see it everyday, by the mirror! Also to look hott naked and not just in clothes!
  • RiotxRiot
    RiotxRiot Posts: 14
    When you run out of boomstick shells and slugs... well the ability to just run... I would think helps!

    Right? NO ONE in the Zombie Apocalypse is gonna be like: "Oh man, I seriously regret being able to run super fast now because I got in shape." But everyone whose fit will be like "PHEW, thank God that guy's still a fatty and I'm not."

    If I had a fitness flowchart it would say: Can you run from Zombies
    > No.
    > FIX THAT
  • RunDoozer
    RunDoozer Posts: 1,699 Member
    Because it is a constant reminder of my failed marriage. I have always struggled with depression but getting married to the wrong woman put that into overdrive. I just kept eating and eating. So my motivation is to get rid of all this crap and move on.

    Also I cannot stand looking in the mirror. I grew up with a 6 pack and had it up until my wedding day. Then it all went to hell. I hate fat with a passion it grosses me out. I will be a much happier person.when I get down to a healthy body weight again and don't have to look like that.

    Went in with a six pack and came out looking like Homer Simpson.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    My workout buddy usually. When I don't feel like doing it, she makes me. When she doesn't feel like doing it, I make her. We don't usually get unmotivated at the same time, but when we do, we still seem to push each other to do it.
  • grabenson7
    grabenson7 Posts: 88
    one to know i have lost that weight and to keep it of and for people to know that, and two to feel good about my body and me if you what i mean.
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    Mine is the feeling of accomplishment.

    I have an idea of what I want to look like and push through the pain (the good pain!) and keep going. (WRT pain, I recognise the bad pain which means I need to rest or stop whatever I'm doing.)
  • casy84
    casy84 Posts: 290 Member
    Fashion and looking good naked
  • WeightWatcherCindy
    WeightWatcherCindy Posts: 121
    My health . I was recently diagnosed pre diabetic . I'll be damned if I'm going to become full blown diabetic if I can help it .
  • delonda1
    delonda1 Posts: 525 Member
    Being able to look at myself and see greatness.
  • shellykzoo
    shellykzoo Posts: 21 Member
    Remembering where I was and how unhealthy I felt.
  • SkimFlatWhite68
    SkimFlatWhite68 Posts: 1,254 Member
    I bought a FitBit yesterday and even though I worked from home today it sure did motivate me to get moving!!

    Other than that, my motivation is to look fabulous and not be embarrassed to get in a swimming cosie next summer (first day of Autumn today so I've got 9 months to lose the fat).
  • alexbusnello
    alexbusnello Posts: 1,010 Member
    older pictures of me and how much fat I've gained and how much muscle ive lost since then........trying to get back to my nicer body.....
  • gym_king_carlie
    gym_king_carlie Posts: 528 Member
    originally it was to better my life, like get a girlfriend and look good, the usual shallow motives I suppose, now its all about evolving for me, my motivation is I am heading towards the very best version of me and I can not wait because as a person I have grown, matured, had tough times and it is them moments that make me work harder
  • trophywife24
    trophywife24 Posts: 1,472 Member
    Actually being able to wear summer clothes this year. No more summers in jeans or "mom shorts". I'm so excited to wear 'real' shorts, a bikini, little summer dresses. It's very motivating.... and very HOT here in the summer, haha.
  • Athena53
    Athena53 Posts: 717 Member
    First, because it's good for my health, I'm 60 and still high-energy amd not on any prescriptions.

    Second- I work in a company that's still full business dress and I have accumulated a wonderful wardrobe of tailor-made clothes- a skirt, 2 suits, 3 jackets, 3 pair of pants. They were not cheap, but they were made in the USA and I'm proud of that. If I gain back the 17 lbs. I've lost, I'm going to strain the seams of the pants and the skirt, which would make them uncomfortable to wear (I hate tight pants/skirts) and is not good for the fabric. My tailor has already tactfully warned me that yo-yo dieting is not good for clothes- you can't keep taking in/letting it without it wrecking the material and leaving tracks. I had one pair pf pants cut down and really need to have him do the rest. Gaining weight after that and letting them out again is not a good idea.

    So that's a big motivation!

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