Eeeep - help me!

After a week or so without full access (and sometimes with none) to MFP and the community, I feel lassitude and apathy setting in. I haven't been in control of my food (guest and/or eating out) and so my logging has been sporadic and probably inaccurate. I feel like I'm losing my grip on it, when I had been so well on track for the 6 weeks before.

I need a prod, a kick up the bum, some inspirational words - anything.... help me.

I want this to be the time I succeed, not give up after 5kgs lost and then gain double that back, like all the other times!

You are either motivated or not.
If you always go out looking for external motivation, nothing will ever change.

It's either internal or your fail. That's life.

To internalize your goals, associate pain with failure and pleasure with success. It's just that simple.
Do this and you'll never, ever again have any issues with motivation.
You will be internally driven, and nothing will stop you.

Good luck!

You can do it, look how far you've come already! Don't worry about past days, start fresh! Tomorrow is a brand new year, you're going to do awesome!

Every passing second you make a decision - either in the right direction or the wrong. What is past is past - don't dwell on the past, you can't change it... make the right decision now and forward! Don't let the roller coaster take you for a ride - you're in control if/when you want to be!!

I am always willing to lend a kick in the *kitten*! So if you need encouraging friends,feel free to add me. You can do it! Allow yourself no excuses. Huge hug! Sometimes just writing out the words can be therapeutic enough to get over the 'woe is me' attitude.

It's my opinion that you cannot make a major life change like eating healthy and exercising by yourself. Because quite frankly it sucks at first, it is uncomfortable and inconvenient and sometimes it threatens the ones we love. I mean the physical "doing" part is you, but most people, almost all people need to believe they have the ability and be encouraged. And it takes others to do that part of it I am convinced. I don't know you at all, but I am convinced that because you reached out the way you just did, you have the ability to accept help and encouragement from others and that is so awesome. See some people resent it when they are offered help, and feel they are being scolded, especially regarding diet or exercise. So kudos to you being open to help.

Secondly, I have been in a place where I could not think of one single solitary reason for being healthy. I know what that is like. But you just have to find that reason. Dig deep inside and decide what that reason is. For some it is fear of having health problems. For some they just want to be hot and sexy. A lot of people "do it to be there more for their kids". There is no right or wrong answer really. But if you don't have that reason clearly in focus you won't be motivated. Hey the reason could be that you have a great group of friends on here and you don't want to let them down. Sometimes that has helped me.

Lastly, listen to people, and really believe them and trust them when they tell you, ***you can do it**. Really take that in and believe it. Perhaps you don't believe that now, I don't know.

Feel free to add me if you wish, people generally say that I can motivate them so it's up to you.