How do you all stay motivated?!

My motivation comes from having multiple goals that are a mix of simple to achieve through to ones which take alot of work.

My current simple goal is 95kg

Slightly harder goal is sub4 hour marathon in 4 weeks

longterm goals are

90kg
sub 20 min 5K
sub 42 min 10k
sub 100 min half marathon

Once I make the simple goal the 90kg goal gets moved up a category and I carry on

Motivation: At 63, my motivation has changed dramatically from what it would have been 30 years ago. For example, I really don't care how I look anymore, I'm just too old. These keep me going, though.

Health: Cholesterol too high. Trying to get it down and keep it that way using diet and exercise

Food: I'd like to be able to eat somewhat like a normal person instead of weighing every bite and living on water, baked chicken breasts and spinach for the rest of my life. I had a high calorie pumpkin spice latte this morning, something I could not have without exercise. Exercise gives me some extra calories.

My Dog: She has to be walked whether or not I feel like it. She needs her walk and loves her walk and I love her - I can't indulge in "I don't wanna". As long as we're out there, we may as well run until I'm gasping and she's dragging behind me. It's good for both of us, and it's not negotiable. Sometimes motivation is what you have to do instead of what you'd like to do.

Patttience wrote: »

Learn to enjoy the process. Enjoy yoru diet. If you are not enjoying it, then you need to tweak your methods and by that i do not mean eat more crap. I mean improve the quality of the food you are eating and eat enough.

Second, the way i keep myself motivated apart from thsi is by being committed to the idea that i do not want to be fat ever again. So far so good. I believe this will work as it has for hte last 20 months.

This pretty much says it. It's not motivation, it is my new way of living. I no longer eat whatever I want. It now all has to fit into my (calorie) budget. My wife will sometimes chastize me about logging in during dinner out. "I'm just checking to see if I can afford dessert" I reply. Instead of money controling what I eat, it's calories. Works for me ;-) Gonna need to buy new (smaller) suits.

I consider the alternative. Okay I can slowly lose weight or I can slowly get fatter and less able to move and enjoy life. Only 33 pounds lost and I already notice things like,

My knees don't hurt nearly as much.
I don't get winded as much.
My clothes fit better
I am more comfortable sitting in a booth at a restaurant
I can get on my horse from the ground again.
When sensei throws me I can roll out of the fall and onto my feet faster.
My seatbelt does not have as far to go
I don't displace as much water in the tub.
Getting out of the tub is much easier.
When I bend over to trim a horse I can see past my chest
When I look down I don't see my belly

Some days I have no motivation at all. On those days I just do it because not doing it is just not an option anymore. And I do it because after 6 months of doing it, it's just habit.

Kids, my children keep me motivated. My little guy the other day sees me on the tread mill and says "Daddy fighting the chub!" All I needed. I am fighting the chub..and the chub is going down!

I am not always motivated but I go for my run because I know it makes me feel better, and I have been logging everything I eat even if I go over. So I can see the results even if those results are not what I want. I enjoy feeling healthy I like the fact I can go to the water parks with my kids and climb the stairs while caring the tube and not have to rest at every landing like 90 percent of the parents. Or climbing the stairs when we go to the sand dunes. I am tired today I do not feel like going for my run but I am getting out there to do it even if its only for 10 minutes at least I did something. I know I will feel better when I am done.