What is the motivation you visualise when you're fitter/healthier/slimmer

kittyroseb
kittyroseb Posts: 37 Member
edited January 2017 in Motivation and Support
I always visualise me getting under 2 hours in my half marathon in April. And in my little black dress feeling good when I see my old work friend in a couple months ( now weight goal in mind just nroe toned and feeling lighter )

How about you ?

Will find it inspiring/interesting to hear others!

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  • JenHuedy
    JenHuedy Posts: 611 Member
    Mine is imagining myself and my husband traveling all over the world and being able to physically climb to the tops of cathedrals and snorkel in tropical seas and hike anywhere we please when we're retired and old.

    Backstory: A couple years ago my husband was laid off from his airline job one month before being able to retire with flight benefits. We took one last trip, going literally around the world. It was very bittersweet. I knew we'd never be able to afford adventures like this without the free flights and we'd be in our 50's or 60's before he'd get the benefits again if he did choose to take his recall option (if airline doesn't go under in the meantime). Never traveling again was not an option, and it would be years before I could save the money to do it myself and that would be in tiny coach seats. There was no way I'd be able to afford those nice roomy 1st class seats we got on employee passes! I was already having a hard time getting around and I was barely 40. I needed to get fit now so when the time comes that I can travel again I'll be ready.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,569 Member
    I'm a long distance cyclist who has done quite a bit of really long distance cycling.

    Relatively recently I gained some weight and lost some fitness and moved to a state with a whole heap of climbing. It made me sad that I couldn't do the timed events within their time limits anymore because it was too hard to haul my weight up all the hills.

    So ...

    I lost the weight in 2015.

    And I started doing long distance cycling again in 2016. I hoped to be able to ride at least one 200 km event and one 300 km event ... I did! And then I rode a 400 km event and even tried for a 600 km event but illness and lack of fitness got in the way of that one. I called that one a day at 390 km.

    So here it is 2017 ... and I've got lots of stuff on my schedule. :)
  • melto1989
    melto1989 Posts: 140 Member
    To be glad to look at myself in a mirror I've cringed for 7 years as I've slowly gained weight and I'm fed up with hating myself.
    That's what motivates me, I've gave up so many times in the past and realise 6 months later I could of lost heaps if I'd stuck with it. Then have regret. So this year no regrets
  • bpperez0607
    bpperez0607 Posts: 6 Member
    I've named my bicycle "Pegasus" because she has the ability to fly. We've had some grand adventures together, but she has spent most of the last three years hanging on a wall in my office because I neglected to make time for her. Long story short, we're back on the roads and as soon as I drop the weight I've gained (30 lbs), we'll be able to fly again. Cycling is my way of keeping the mental gremlins at bay (the ones that scream "you can't...you're not good enough...etc., etc." With Pegasus, I can just fly away and leave them far behind. BTW, cycling is a GREAT calorie burner. One hour of cycling at just under 15 mph burns more than 900 calories!
  • SweatsOnSunday
    SweatsOnSunday Posts: 514 Member
    Kittyroseb, I feel the same way about my favorite suit. And I'd love to break 2hrs for a half!

    I picture pulling on a pair of shorts that hang just a bit off my hip bones as I walk down the beach on a summer morning.

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