What is your number one motivator?

All the people on "magic money sucking diet pills." I just get tired of hearing their diet blather and trying to sell it to me. It's not what started it - but it has kept me going. Trying to "show them" I guess. They are slowly cycling on and off those miracle diets - and I just keep going like a determined turtle. The more they tout the latest miracle the more I just keep on keeping on. I don't have any better explanation that that.

the mirror!

I have congenital heart disease, and since I was twelve, I've been hearing that if I'm even the slightest bit overweight, my heart is most likely not going to work to it's full potential. Most of my dad's family is overweight, and a few members on my mom's side are overweight. To prevent ending up overweight with the majority of family, I want to be able to lose weight to maximize my future health.

One simple photo was my biggest motivator. The straw that broke the proverbial camels back. Once I started the results were my motivator. The way I look and feel now, compared to this time last year. OMG!

I came to the realization that I was fat back in the 6th grade.

Even though I was never bullied, and rarely belittled, for my weight as a boy it always felt...wrong. It felt like some kind of horrible mistake, as it just didn't fit at all how I saw myself. Being fat was pretty detrimental to my self image, like being trapped in somebody else's body. I never lost that feeling.

I lost a lot of weight over a decade ago as an older teen/young adult. My mind was so warped from the fat years that I eventually regained all the weight back, having never really adapted my mind to being in a fitter and leaner place. All I saw was the fat I still had, not how far I'd come. I ended up bigger than ever.

My motivation is coming into myself, truly. It's FINALLY feeling like "me", in some areas for the first time ever. I am changing externally, but the real changes are in how I am seeing myself, the improved self image, the coming into my real, truthful self. It's a powerful change. There is no stronger motivator for me.

Rubbing my success in my fat mother-in-law's face. :laugh:

She thinks it's sooo hard to stick o a diet & lose real weight, but I'm showing her just how easy it is. c; She's gonna be so jealous when I'm at my weight goal & her weight hasn't budged.

I know it sounds vein, but I want to look awesome in a bikini! That's my motivation :-)

I'm a nursing student in my 2nd semester of clinical and I have met allot of special people who are sick that say: ENJOY life and take care of your BODY. As a teen I never listened to my elders, I had to figure it out on my own, make the mistakes to finally learn and understand that they were right. As an adult I don't want to figure it out, I want to take the advice of the sickly I've met and take care of my body now, I don't want to wait until the health problems start rolling in to look back and have regret.

So take care of your body, it is precious & sensitive.... And you only have one :flowerforyou:

Looking in the mirror and liking what I see! We all know when we look good

What keeps me motivated:

My BadAssBeautie, she's amazing, inspiring, and keeps me wanting to better myself
Seeing the change in my appearance
Seeing my strength and stamina build
Knowing my health is improving by watching what I eat
That good, sore feeling you get when you know you kicked serious *kitten*
Becoming a BadAss

I don't even know anymore. I just love the push, and the feel of heavy weight in my hands.

I'm avoiding the next higher weight class. There's a pretty serious difference between fighting a 199lb guy and a 218-234lb guy.

Great topic for sharing.

There are three things that keep me motivated.

1. My children and future grandchildren. More on that in #3.

2. Me. I've been lifting weights for about 25 years and while there are times will illness and injury, I've always stayed with it. Looking in the mirror each day inspires me to stay that way! Because... when I was 20, I was about 120kg of fat. I changed that completely after University. Now I have 10% BF and maintain 90kg.

3. Work. I am early retired and work part-time for the Bavarian Red Cross. I drive ill and handicapped people to various places and am often in care homes, hospitals, physician offices, etc. I see first hand what lack of exercise and poor eating habits do to people.

Back to #1. Due to #3, I want to be able to play and enjoy time with my grown daughters and their (eventual) children when I'm older. I don't with to be one of the Papas or Opas who are more concerned about their next beer (which I do enjoy at the occasional fest!), but going snowboarding, wandering in the forests, swimming, etc with my kids and theirs is so much more important. When I'm 65, I don't want the pains from getting out of my chair coming from old age, but rather soreness from have done dead-lifts or squats the day before!

We don't even own a television. That also killed any chance of demotivation!!

I want and will stay fit for my family! They are my motivation!

At this point my #1 motivator is all the success I've already had (over 100 lbs gone, lost many, many inches & sizes, look very different, much better, feel great!) & knowing that I'll see more of it if I continue to do what I've been doing for going on two years.

My motivation is my fat *kitten* stomach and those 3 numbers that haunt me on the scale every time I step on it.