Fitness motivation

Motivation?

Finding and establishing relatively easy but positive new habits is more powerful than relying on motivation, if you ask me. I can't stay "motivated" for the whole rest of my life, and I do want to stay at a healthy weight and reasonable fitness level that long, y'know?

If I had a motivation to start and sincerely commit, it was mostly two things:

1. I had high cholesterol, didn't want to take a statin. Statins have a rep for triggering some brain fog. I figured I'd already given up enough cognitive bandwidth to chemotherapy for cancer.

2. Looking around me, I noticed that among friends and relatives my age, plus or minus maybe 10 years, the overweight and inactive people on average had a much worse quality of life than the healthy-weight active people. (I was 59 when I started losing weight, 68 and maintaining a healthy weight now.) Fundamentally, I'm a hedonist. I wanted to eat all the yummy food I could, but also wanted to reach/maintain a healthy weight and a reasonably fit body. Calorie counting, for me, was the perfect way to balance those two goals.

Now, in year 8 of maintaining weight (and still athletically active), it's pretty much just following the daily habits I learned and practiced during weight loss.

Diet plan?

No one thing works for everyone. Others can give you ideas, but not The Answer. (Beware of people who tell you they have the perfect universal answer, I'd say.)

For myself, I did this:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10636388/free-customized-personal-weight-loss-eating-plan-not-spam-or-mlm/p1

It's one option to consider.

Best wishes!