What is the one thing that kills your motivation completely?

mikegl1
mikegl1 Posts: 238 Member
in Motivation and Support
For me it is having a couple of beers --- wont go to the gym for sure on that day.
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  • SusieDerkinsRocks
    SusieDerkinsRocks Posts: 30 Member
    Feeling sad.
  • Turtlesallthewaydown
    Turtlesallthewaydown Posts: 64 Member
    Depression. Sometimes it's like " F-this. I'm fat now and I'll stay fat even if I deny myself this yummy food, so I'm going to have it". And then I eat my feelings. :(
  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
    Stress. I struggle with the feeling that I SHOULD be doing something other than what I'm actually doing.
  • stella1314
    stella1314 Posts: 66 Member
    when people are mean to me and i feel i didnt deserve it and i am crying and sad bc of this. I am nice and willing to help and they just make fun of me or just spit in my face..:cry::cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
  • TraceysJourney
    TraceysJourney Posts: 27 Member
    Feeling tired or a stressful day at work :(
  • Austadophilus5
    Austadophilus5 Posts: 27
    A horrible day at work. Customers are unforgiving, a lot even taunt me for my weight as they leave. Others just taunt me for my place in life, working at Wal-mart instead of being in college. Its hurtful and crappy. That's why I work out in the morning before I do anything.
  • Joehenny
    Joehenny Posts: 1,222 Member
    NOTHING!

    Blood sweat and years brah! lol
  • Beck9a
    Beck9a Posts: 7 Member
    Life becoming overwhelming. Going out with friends. Lack of sleep.
  • gerard54
    gerard54 Posts: 1,107 Member
    A packed gym...
  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
    A horrible day at work. Customers are unforgiving, a lot even taunt me for my weight as they leave. Others just taunt me for my place in life, working at Wal-mart instead of being in college. Its hurtful and crappy. That's why I work out in the morning before I do anything.

    I hope that you go to college too, however, you have a job - good for you! There's something wrong with anyone who would taunt you.
  • fg8585
    fg8585 Posts: 110 Member
    Getting sick. The whole recovery tends to throw me off for at most 2 weeks.
  • katy_trail
    katy_trail Posts: 1,992 Member
    anything. I will use any excuse.
  • JeneticTraining
    JeneticTraining Posts: 663 Member
    Definitely getting sick. I had the flu in January. Worst 3 weeks and worst way to start off a new year.
  • JacksMom12
    JacksMom12 Posts: 1,044 Member
    Honestly? When I feel good about myself. Crazy, I know. I tend to get a few good days under my belt and then I ease up completely and lose my motivation. It's a brutal cycle. I've been maintaining a year though, so I guess it evens out.
  • ashlinmarie
    ashlinmarie Posts: 1,263 Member
    Not feeling well when I wake up. It has been that way for a few weeks now...massive headaches that won't go away all day. I try to push myself to workout, as I did yesterday and then today I woke up and felt good, got out of bed, and almost collapsed because I stepped weird on my foot yesterday. Ugh... lol.
  • gerard54
    gerard54 Posts: 1,107 Member
    anything. I will use any excuse.

    Haha...
  • LolaErca
    LolaErca Posts: 45 Member
    pms
  • hadlam83
    hadlam83 Posts: 140
    Having sick kiddies :(
  • CrystalDreams
    CrystalDreams Posts: 418 Member
    life kills my motivation.
  • JoanB5
    JoanB5 Posts: 610 Member
    Discouraging people who "don't get" your goals. (Fortunately, I'm currently blessed to have support and love).
  • mjm8700
    mjm8700 Posts: 1
    Being sick, especially when I have to end up on some meds that cause side effects.
  • xoTalim
    xoTalim Posts: 212 Member
    Depression.

    Or seeing really skinny people eating a ton and ton of food and not gaining much weight. :(
  • NikinCilla
    NikinCilla Posts: 129 Member
    Feeling tired from work, lack of sleep & mean people kills my motivation & drives me to heaps & heaps of carb.
  • metacognition
    metacognition Posts: 626 Member
    I have several things that kill my motivation:

    1. Getting two hours of sleep. I feel drained, starving for something sweet and like I'm always on the brink of falling asleep. It's like being on a hormonal see - saw, and having almost NO impulse control.

    2. Getting home late at night from a long day at work and having to exercise. It just won't happen.

    3. Over eating used to kill my motivation for the next day, but now it doesn't do anything because my weight is almost at goal. I still get to wake up at 105 pounds in the morning and that feels good. So what if I maintain for a while longer?

    4. Cream. Cheese. Cake. 500 calories blown on a few small bites. Evil.

    For 500 calories I could have had 6 Fuji apples, 14 clementines, 5 Weight Watchers chocolate ice cream bars, 15 cups of popcorn, or a fat plate of chili over whole grain spaghetti with cheese on top - instead. That cake is like throwing dynamite to all my carefully laid plans. Of course this is only if I eat it - so I don't.
  • Run_Forever
    Run_Forever Posts: 147 Member
    Injuries !

    Nothing brings me down more than not being able to get in the workout I want.
  • cschiff
    cschiff Posts: 209 Member
    feeling like i don't have enough time in the day to do what must be done for school and work let alone the gym
  • Lainny21
    Lainny21 Posts: 106 Member
    Not seeing the results I want.
  • ambernbarrier
    ambernbarrier Posts: 66 Member
    That time of the month or 2 weeks before.
  • DanielleWatson83
    DanielleWatson83 Posts: 139 Member
    Honestly? When I feel good about myself. Crazy, I know. I tend to get a few good days under my belt and then I ease up completely and lose my motivation. It's a brutal cycle. I've been maintaining a year though, so I guess it evens out.
    aint that the truth, its the fat days that motivate me, and when i see im loosing, im like hrmm ill slip up and ill be fine.. yahhhhhhhhhhhhh right
  • albertine58
    albertine58 Posts: 267 Member
    Feeling depressed, lonely, overwhelmed, stressed, and out of control of my life. (grad student- happens too often!)
    also, seeing little movement on the scale really bums me out, even though I know I'm building muscle.

    but the thing that elevates my mood and motivation more than anything is my small group training workouts! Swinging kettlebells like a pro or dancing like crazy at Zumba - I leave the gym a sweaty triumphant mess every night. My motivation suffers the most on the weekends, which is when I don't have those workouts to pump me up!

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