How did you find your Motivation again?

Someone very close to me asked for my help in creating a meal plan for them. It completely renewed my sense of purpose. I've been half assing things lately, and knowing that someone thinks I'm capable of helping them was a huge motivation boost. If I'm going to help someone else, I need to rededicate myself to my own cause!

You could think about you're health and where you want to be when you're old. You'd probably rather be taking care of yourself than living in a nursing home. Even if you feel fine now, the way you treat your body now will have dramatic effects on your body in the future.

I hope that motivates you. You can go to a nursing home and talk to several residents. It might make you sad, but it could make you want to take care of yourself now.

I don't know what your typical approach to this whole thing is, but for me it's a combination of eating within cals (although not too strict on WHAT it is I eat) and exercise.

I lost my motivation for a couple of months and just got it back about 6-8 weeks ago. I realised that for me, exercise is key.

If I'm not making the time to exercise, then my motivation to eat well just diminishes, very rapidly! But if I'm getting the exercise in, the endorphins kick in and I'm more in tune with my body - eating for fuel, rather than to satisfy emotional eating urges and cravings for salty/sweet/fatty foods.

This is why I'm terrified now that I have the flu. I've dropped 2.5 kgs (5.5lbs) in the past 5 weeks (since I got my mojo back), but this week I can't even get up the driveway without feeling like passing out, cos my lungs aren't working properly!

I need to make sure that I get back to the gym ASAP, to keep this motivation rolling!!

So yeah, for me it's simple. I've identified my trigger than galvanises my weight-loss motivation (exercise), so I'm trying to make sure I've got my finger on that trigger all the time!

Anyone else ever lose their motivation for a long period of time (like over a year)?

What did you do to get it back?

I've been at the same weight for over a year, but I have over 60 more lbs to lose. What can get my spark going again?

I looked in the mirror and decided that I didn't want to be me, the new me, the fat me, the unhappy me, anymore. So I went for a walk. Then I went for a run. Then I started tracking my food. Next thing you know, I'm in full beast mode being an athlete again and loving every second of it.

Go take a good hard look in the mirror and make a decision.

I actually gained weight after having my now 4 month old. I'm 60 pounds overweight and tired of feeling fat and tired.
I've started cleaning my diet. It's better, but has room for improvement. Now I'm going to find time to exercise even if it's just 30 minutes a day.

Wonderful topic.

I actually had a little stomach bug, nothing major, that kept my appetite in check for a couple weeks and I lost like 20 or 30 pounds and that made me want to keep it going. I've been going strong ever since, granted it has not been that long.

I kick myself in the butt all the time for gaining all the weight that I lost back, and then some. It took me a while and several tries to get my motivation back but this time seems like it will stick. The first time I lost 187 pounds it was motivated by a severe depression oddly enough.

I lost my motivation for about a year! maybe a little over a year! I met my husband and then we got married. I turned thirty in April and realized that I had gained 20 pounds back! :noway: So I decided I had to get serious again. I'm almost done with the couch to 5k program.!! So I'm running again, and eating healthy, and not being hungry. I almost thought I had forgotten how to lose weight, but then the weight started coming off again. I think that's the biggest motivator.. Getting up and just doing it, cause you know you feel great afterwards. :drinker:

to paraphrase the great Anthonny Robbins - when the pain of doing nothing is more than the pain of getting going. Create a vision for yourself, feel it, taste it, want it, then, GO FOR IT.

We either have that drive or need to find a way to ignite it.

To light that fire, be honest, and answer for yourself:
Why do I want to be healthy and fit? Discover the real answer, and attach great pleasure to that as you set your goals.
Feel and experience that joy when you think of being healthy and fit.

And then ask yourself why do you NOT want to be fat?
Connect with that reason burning pain that you can really feel every time you think about being fat.

This is the key to internal motivation.
Few people can actually do this which is why most people fail in their efforts over and over.
Take the time to do this, and you'll touch off a powder keg of determination and drive.
Sure, you may have challenges; we all do, but you'll keep punching and reach your goals.

All Is Possible!

Lower your goal, do 10 lbs at a time. Do what you are doing now and post!! Add lots of friends and do MFP status updates regularly. Start small. Im currently about to start a 100 day challenge where all you do is drink as much water as you can and work out just 15 mins a day! Start logging your food, even if you aren't trying to watch your calories or your not working out. Try new work outs! promise yourself to just take a 10 minute walk once a day. Hope any of this help! Be easy on yourself! You have accomplished so much!

When life itself begins to get hard and noone else understands and take the smallest of life's conveniences...
Even if you start over everyday, even if you start over after your last crazy meal. Make the very next thing you do be exactly what you need to start over right then and there. Dont wait till Monday, Dont wait till after a holiday, Dont wait till after a vacation. Start right then and there. This is what I always tell myself...
#JUST START

I lost 60 pounds over a period of a year I lost my motivation about five months ago and started to gain weight. I have gained 20 pounds in this last five months. Have just started tracking and exercising again about two weeks ago. The thing that got me started again was looking at all the new clothes I had bought that I am not fitting into an my middle is starting to hang over my pants again i hate that. I got out all my old fat pictures and put them on the fridge so I can see how far I let myself go and this helps keep me honest. I also quit beating myself up about getting off track I am not perfect I am human and am allowed to make mistakes. Give yourself a break dont look at is as 60 pounds to go look at it one day at a time. this helps it is easier to look at just one day of life changes. Add me as a friend and we can encourage each other. I need all the help I can get.

look under the bed.



Form a habit. once you get used to doing something (or not doing something) it gets easier.

Motivation is just a word, don't attach anything you do to motivation, that way, you won't need to rely on motivation to do something =]

What I did was, if I didn't feel like doing something, I did it anyway =]

I find that I do better when I have a concrete tangible goal with a firm time table. Right now I am training for a half-marathon. My workouts are basically planned for me for the next 82 days and I know that if my diet is not on point, I will not be as successful.