I lose motivation after the first week

Keep your eyes on the prize! You have to want it bad enough.

You're NOT committed. Basically it's not important enough for you to stick to, so you cede. Till you really FEEL you want it MORE than anything else (besides air, family, and bacon) then you'll always lose motivation.

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Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

SMART Goals - research it... clear and concise goals, can't just be the I want to lose weight - you have to pin point the exact reasons and concentrate on the NSVs such as the burst of energy and how the mindful eating makes you feel... remind yourself of the WHYs, HOWs, by WHEN's on a regular basis - small goals work better than overall goals as well - you should have 4 week, 2 week, 1 week, and for every morning write out the goals for the day - it takes work, dedication, and the only one who can motivate you is you and your core reasons for wanting to do what you have set yourself to do.

I wasn't motivated, either, until it well and truly became a matter of necessity. For my health, I had to make smart decisions and push myself.

If you can't even last a week, it is not you that's the problem, it is what you're doing. And what you're doing is probably too much.

Simplify things to their bare essence and introduce changes to your life one at a time. Each change should be so unobtrusive that you barely feel like your life has changed.

For weight loss, always start with diet first. That's going to deliver the vast majority of results, not exercise (exercise has a place, but never above diet). Make a small change each week. The compounding effect of these small changes will deliver dramatic results within a few months, but day to day, you'll barely feel like anything has changed. That's the magic of a program that both works and is sustainable.

If you're losing motivation that quickly, it may be that you're taking things too quickly, like giantwisdom said. I know that when my mother started her weight loss journey many moons ago, she started hard and instantly burned out. Me, I started very, very slowly - at first, I changed absolutely nothing except I began to 'ballpark' what I was eating and log it. The next week, I started to weigh myself every morning to get into the habit (I'm logging on Fridays and Mondays - before and after the weekend - to gage my results). Then I started, still 'ballpark'ing my food intake, to stay under my calorie goal. That's when the scale started gradually going down.

Now I've finally broken down and purchased a food scale. I'm finally at the point of taking this food logging thing seriously (especially after today's Girl Scout Cookies - it made my stomach feel badly enough that I skipped dinner and didn't feel bad about it!). Also, now that I have access to my food diary at work (even though I don't have decent access to the community and I do have to do some odd things to log in my food diary as the military insists on using ancient IE browsers and not allow us to update to something better), I'm finding myself more dedicated towards logging.

I've been subconsciously changing what I eat - it's not that I don't love a bologna, cheese and egg bagel sandwich, it's that I look at it and go "Hm, I can either have that now and waste all my calories, or I can mix that egg with that half a cup of leftover steamed rice in the microwave and splash on some hot sauce some hot sauce for half the calories and it'd be just as filling. Let's do that instead." I'm seeing more food options and enjoying the exploration to see how much I can fit into my daily allotment (1330-ish) without having to rely on the calorie burn from my Striiv to keep me under my goal.

I took over a month to start a very, very mild workout program, too. I've been doing some random 30 day challenges - nothing too time-tasking, but definitely muscle-taxing (and when they get too tough, I take nice multi-day breaks and then throw myself back into them). And I've been walking more and more because it's pleasant to see that additional buffer on top of my allotted calorie intake. My fitbit knockoff was the best present my hubby could've bought me.

Just keep it up! If you need motivation, get some good chatty friends that you don't mind nagging you. (you can add me, but I don't leave messages often - as said, working onboard a military vessel limits my access. I can only really post in the middle of the night when I'm at home, prior to crawling into bed like I am right now)