Motivation!

I find motivation a tricky concept to begin with, but my initial spur was my type 2 diabetes diagnosis. I had to change my eating because I had to get my diabetes under control. All I can say is that over time, the more healthier stuff I ate, the less I wanted calorie dense foods. After reducing my portions, I now feel fuller on less food. I allow myself to eat what I want, and don't berate myself about having the stuff labelled 'junk/crap/bad/sinful/cheat' food. Having moderate amounts of what I fancy has gradually led to less binges. My philosophy is there's no such thing as good or bad food. There's less nutritious food, and more nutritious food. I choose to have more of the more nutritious variety.

It has been far from easy getting to this point. Time and perseverance has taught me moderation. Changing my mindset has taught me to change my eating behaviour. Logging everything, even the stuff labelled 'junk', allows me to look back and reflect on what I've eaten and see if there's any ways to reduce or swap to tighten up my macros. It all takes patience and keeping going day to day even if I'm demoralised, depressed or stressed. One thing that really helps me is not stressing about weight loss. I don't jump on the scales every week. I don't expect to lose tons of weight, and I have no set time limit for losing, because this is a lifelong change for me. I'll get there when I get there. I do have one definite goal: to be able to cross my legs while sitting on any chair. I haven't been able to do that in over 30 years and I always really envied people who can do it! So I guess I could call that my motivation. Whatever your reasons for doing this might be, even if they seem frivolous, if that's what spurs you on, that's as good a motivation as any. 😊