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The motivation thread...
Mellykay88
Posts: 307 Member
Hi guys! I thought I’d start a new topic. I love finding and ready new motivational material, from simple quotes, to inspirational stories. Here, I will post things I find and I hope you all will do the same!! 
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This is something my mother said to me when I told her how slow I am walking on the treadmill...
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@CheezWhiz88 that is awesome!! And so true!0
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One more
because I love turtles 
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That turtle is adorable! The other one I love is what kicked my butt into gear to start this journey on Jan 15th. Last year on that date, I thought about how I needed to get healthy and read this quote. Sure enough, I remembered it last week and it rang true: I found every excuse in 2017 to not lose the weight, and a year later I regretted it. I don't want to have the same regret on Jan 15, 2019.
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Absolutely! On a forum post someone said “time is going to pass anyway”. That really resonated with me. I think those of us who have a long way to go get caught up in how long it’s going to take, but time is going to keep going whether we work towards our goals or not!1
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This quote got me through 6 years of college (I may have changed major a few times!) and now I know it will help get me through this too!
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@rabidhamster87 high five to 6 years! I also switched majors a couple of times, but hey, finished is finished!
My personal quote when I start feeling sorry for myself:
If you want crappy things to stop happening to you, stop accepting crap, and demand something more.
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@cassie9393 Fellow GA lover here love that quote! 1
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@Mellykay88 seriously?! Ha yeah it's ridiculous and dramatic and totally fantastic!1
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I love this idea! Do any of you use any sort of visual to motivate and track?
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Mellykay88: that's a really cool idea, although I'd need a much bigger jar!
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@CheezWhiz88 haha! I’d definitely need a bigger jar, too.
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@Mellykay88 & @CheezWhiz88 I wonder if I went over to Amazon and asked, "How many glass beads could I fit in this mason jar?" what kind of answers I would get...
I love that idea though! I think I'm absolutely going to do it! It's much better than my idea of a paper chain! 0 -
I love the idea though; maybe I can try it with brightly colored paperclips!1
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Loving this thread. So many great quotes. I especially like the one about looking back from next year. That's incredibly true for me too.
To do the jars I'd need about 30 of those jars! Oops lol1 -
cassie9393 wrote: »@rabidhamster87 high five to 6 years! I also switched majors a couple of times, but hey, finished is finished!
*laughs* I took 6 years to graduate without changing majors! I co-oped and I also refused to load myself down with a ton of lab classes each semester (I was an engineering major). didn't matter, though: I still got my degree!Mellykay88 wrote: »
I love this idea! Do any of you use any sort of visual to motivate and track?
that's a neat idea! I might poke around Hobby Lobby and see what I can find to fill jars with
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I did weight watchers briefly (HATED it btw) but the one thing I took from it was to create a chain of paperclips, one for each pound lost. Last time I lost weight i hung it in my cubicle at work and it was a great reminder of how far I had gone.1
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@evilfairies that’s a great idea! And no one would really know what it was unless you told them... I’m bored at work now so I may do it 0
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I actually took painters tape, and put each pound on a piece. Put the pieces of tape ALL on the front of my freezer door. So each time I weigh in, and lose, I remove those pieces of tape. So, its always where I can see it, and if you are going into the fridge, you see your current weight (and all the pieces that are left), to deter you from making a bad choice.3
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These are great ideas! I love the idea of visualizing it. When I was home for the holidays we cooked a prime rib for dinner and Dad came over and told me to hold the tray (the meat was ten pounds pre cooked). He said there; you've lost 8 of those. It's astonishing how much weight we get used to carrying.2
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All of these are fantastic ideas!
@alevans4 That's a great visual too. I've lost 30 lbs, but I have so much more to lose that it feels like nothing. Maybe I need to go pick up some heavy stuff so that I can see how much I've already helped myself!0 -
The first time I lost 10 pounds when I was 12 years old, I was discouraged I wasn't further along and told my mom when we were grocery shopping. So my mom picked up a 10 pound bag of bird seed and made me carry it the rest of our grocery store trip so I understood how much I had lost.3
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Mellykay88 wrote: »
WOW! Pretty soon you won't have anywhere else to put them!0 -
These are great ideas! I love the idea of visualizing it. When I was home for the holidays we cooked a prime rib for dinner and Dad came over and told me to hold the tray (the meat was ten pounds pre cooked). He said there; you've lost 8 of those. It's astonishing how much weight we get used to carrying.
I can relate to that!
I put in a pellet stove in my house, which uses 40lb bags of pellets. I recently bought a ton of them and was moving them to my back porch for storage. Those darn bags were heavy, and as I'm trying to carry 2 of them across the porch (and ended up putting 1 down because I just couldn,t get a good grip) I realized that I used to carrying 2x that bag and more around!3 -
Today I was lugging in the dog food and the comments in this thread made me realize I've lost more than our 26 lb bag of dog food!2
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You guys, I did the thing! 206 glass pebbles on the left and 31 on the right...
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@rabidhamster87 I so need to do that! Our stats are very similar too so thank you for sharing that great visual of how it'll look.
I need to get some jars and pebbles!1
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