80 pounds gone and 25 left...motivation dwindling!! Help!!

Use the fact that you've already dropped 80 as your motivation. Now that i've lost about 86 I look at all that hard work as motivation to not let it go to waste. I can't imagine how bad and disappointed i would feel if i looked in the mirror a year from now and the 86lbs has showed back up.
You can do it! Keep fighting. You've got your whole life ahead of you, live it healthy.

Why don't you try a physical challenge, like entering a race, if you have enteered a race enter one with bigger challenges. The extra activity may help to get you where you want to be. Try make some changes, either in what you eat or how you exercise to get you motivated again. Good luck!

Hey lady! So I'm a social worker too (YAY!) and close to the 100 pound mark. Every since hitting 80 pounds, it's been a struggle to tweak my eating to fit what I need to keep shedding the pounds.

1) I look at my week and decide what I'm gonna do to be sucessful

2) I only focus on every 5-10 pounds. If I don't it get overwhelmed by the fact that I'm near the end and plateuing at times

3) I keep reminding myself that this is a lifestyle change. It doesn't end when I reach my goal weight

4) It also helps to have friends who keep me motivated on here and in person. For instace, my friend and I completed our first race, a 4 miler. We met during the training program. Now we're all training together for a 10 miler for the next 6 months! I can text them to get motivated to exercise or make healthy choices. It's nice to have someone who understands.

5) I post pictures of how far I've come on my walls to show how much happier I've been over the months!

I hope this helps

I've lost over 100 lbs & I easily find motivation to continue every day. I feel so much better, can do so much more, look so much better & smaller, love the foods I eat, and the list goes on and on! I give thanks for so many things. I also look forward to improving my body & my life every day.

I also know the only way to maintain will be to not go back to my old lifestyle. There really is no point at which I will say, "I'm done! Bring on the junk food; it is time to be a couch potato again!" lol...

congrats on your success this far!

im in the same boat. lost 50lbs this year and struggling to get over that 50lb marker to continue my weight loss efforts.
I've been gaining and losing the same 3-5 lbs all summer!!

listening in! with you losing 80 lbs already i probably couldn't give you any more advise than you already know!

So here I am, 80 pounds lighter than I once was, Yay!!!! I want to lose about 25 more, even though I could stand to lose more, I will be fine with it. For those who have lost 100 pounds or more, how did you keep up the motivation at the end when it's so much harder to lose???

The only advice I can offer is just keep going. I lost 80 pounds about a year and a half ago. I started losing my motivation, and a few pounds started creeping up. Slowly, but surely, ALL of the weight came back on! Don't be like me, and have to start ALL over. Keep pushing, keep going, you're worth those 25 pounds!

You've got to find motivation within yourself. Why do you want this? Is it just to fit into cuter clothes? Find your true "want" to. It sounds to me like you are on the verge of becoming complacent which is not a safe place to be. Man up and kick things up a notch for some excitement.

^ALL of this.

One of the most important aspects of the journey of losing weight is the development of our inner character. Determining to accomplish healthy things for ourselves, despite the odds, matures us. It requires us to have will power, self control, loyalty, patience, inner peace, fortitude, strength, etc. We learn to show love and protection toward ourselves where we used to abuse ourselves. And so on.

One of the most important things we learn...is doing the difficult thing even when we don't *feel* like it.

Let's face it: having that good feeling of "Motivation" is nice. It's easy to do things when we want to! But here's the thing: Motivation is simply not necessary to do the things that we need to do which are best for ourselves. We *can* still carry on, even if we're not "in the mood".

It sounds like you've made it this far partly by floating along on those good "high" feelings of accomplishment. Which is awesome! Those feelings are like rocket fuel that propel you forward into good habits. But sometimes the fuel burns out for awhile and you have to keep going *anyway*...until the feeling returns. So rather than waiting for those feelings to return, let all that discipline you've been building up and practicing all this time take over for awhile.

And here's the really good news: when you simply do the right thing anyway, and keep going despite not feeling like it....THEN the feelings of "motivation" return to you - in spades. The Discipline carries you through the desert, from oasis to oasis of Motivation.

When I lose those high feelings of motivation, I use that opportunity to lean on my friend community for support and accountability....otherwise, I'd NEVER exercise again and would lose everything I worked for.

I simply throw a message out on my MFP wall, or even on FaceBook: "Hey guys! I REALLY don't want to keep going right now. I REALLY don't want to work out (or whatever). Somebody remind me why I'm doing this? Somebody tell me to go workout!" and so on. I ALWAYS get several people writing me encouraging messages, saying, "Go B! You can do this! You rock!" etc. etc. And then I'm accountable to them. I come back later and report in that I had a GREAT workout, or whatever, so they know I heard them and am appreciative of their help.

Don't give up now. 25 lbs is not the worst amount of weight, but it's not exactly "out of the woods" either. Remember, you only need a waist circumference of 35" or more to be at risk for diabetes, for example. Plus, you're at higher risk when and if you gain a little weight, say, over the holidays, of getting discouraged. Get closer to your "safe zone"...I wouldn't say 25 lbs was in that zone, personally. Hope that helps.

I can relate. Same story here about shopping. Awesome job, keep it up!!

congratulations. I have lost only 15.5 so your doing so awesome dont give up