Hey everyone.. What is your MOTIVATION?

Hey all, I wanted to know what MOTIVATE you during the day.. What wakes you up and get you going everyday..

WHAT WAKES ME UP IS? My 3 kids telling me i look good before i get dress, and when i see them in the evening after school....They tell me i look good.. I can be in anything, and they will tell me i look great.... But today.. I did look good. I had on a nice top with a great pair of jeans on.. I really look good in this outfit.. But that is what motivate me.. My 3 little angels...

SO WHAT MOTIVATE YOU!

What wakes me up?

I simply enjoy life... Going to school, socializing with friends, going out to eat with my Mom, seeing movies, reading novels, eating delicious food, and surfing CC... Life is too wonderful for me to lay in bed wasting away...

What motivates me?

I honestly have no clue... I guess I just have a desire to look fit and attractive... And I'm darn close to having the body type I want... It's always motivating to see the numbers on the scale drop or to feel pants that used to fit snugly fall off your hips... Also, seeing disguistingly obese people stuffing themselves full of food... It makes me NEVER want to be that pathetic... I worked at a buffet restaurant for 4 months... It's really just sick what some people are able to do to their bodies...

Good for you hybrids05, I am so happy for you. Keep up the good work... I pray that you make it to your goal..
~Lynn

Thank you Lyn :) Very thoughtful of you!

:) Hugs

my heath, my blood pressure is high and has come down already :-)

also...summer and I love the sexy dresses out this season! I want one in every colour!

there are days i feel really bad cuz the scale is not showing any results...though i see some in my clothes...those days i look at the weight loss stories out there....there are so many people that worked a little more throughout the months and now they look awesome.  That's what keeps me going...if they can do it, i can too!

lly am having trouble finding motivation. I am one of those groo obesese people who is pathetically stuffing myself AT HOME !  I think alot was depression over the loss of my son,however I do have a few health issues and the other day some one saw me who hasn't seen me for a while And noticed the few pounds I have already managed to drop here and told me she was proud of me and she was proud to see the weight starting to come back off. (she knew me from my thinner days) So that felt good and I can honestley say that it gave me hope.

lately whats been waking me up is knowing i'll be able to get on the scale...but i hope i can find some other motivaters cause once that morning weigh-in high is gone my days are pretty much downhill from there.

what motivates me currently are reasons that i'm trying to change and don't need to list. cause theyre pretty unhealthy..

hopefully its just a phase. ugh.

We all have good reason to do our best. We will lose weight with out a problem..

I HATE the feeling of not thinking I look good, or feeling fat in an outfit or swimsuit...so what motivates me is that if i keep it up, I WONT HAVE THAT HORRIBLE FEELING anymore, and i will be happier.

I hate that feeling, too... And going swimming is sorta nerve racking also... I don't like going shirtless... Makes me feel uncomfy...

What wakes me up:

Stepping on the scale and seeing it stuck at the SAME place. AGGG. TODAY will be the start of not being on this plateau!

What keeps me going:

Some days, it's the will to get into a bikini and say, "Heyyyy sexy." Other days requires more work. I'm just about to start training as a fitness leader, so on days when I want to just lay here and be decorative, I remind myself that this career requires me to LOOK like I exercise, not just talk about how much fun it is.

What works when all else fails:

Said through gritted teeth, "I. Will. Not. Look. Like. I. Had. A. Miserable. Life."

(Vindication to my ex can be a good motivator.)

Well what comes to mind with this post is what keeps me moving. Being able to read some of the things i promise myself over the years, and learning how to keep my promise with myself, and never let my promises keep me from doing my best.

This is something i need to learn for myself and myself alone.

We're all doing this for ourselves, Lyn. Anyone who is doing for anyone other than themsleves first needs to work on their motivation.

Love yourself. Only then can you love others.

YEah-- I tell my husband all the time.  I don't feel the need to lie to myself about my health or my weight anymore.. I am 205 pounds, and i don't like it.. BUT guess what... I am going to love droppin' every pound and keeping it off this time for ever and for good..

That's the way it's done. You go, Lyn!

Yeah... I am so happy for me.. Not him.. I am doing this for me.. I told my husband just today. Don't think i am doing this for you... I am doing this for my health and nothing else.. Not only that... But to live longer.. Heart problems runs on my father side of the family, and that is reason enough to get off my butt and do something for me...

::grin::

I recently told Vern I was losing weight so I could live a long and healthy life; otherwise, he'll be free to go find happiness. (I was kidding, of course.)

Heart disease runs in our family (my father just had his third heart attack and he's 56), so keeping my weight was a definite short-cut to an early grave. Do you know that story about the drowning man that goes like this:

In brief...

A man is drowning. A guy on a jetski comes by and offers to take the guy back to shore. "No, thank you," he says. "God will help me." Two guys in a rowboat come by and offer to help the guy. "No, no," he says. "God will save me." A sailboat comes by a short while later and tries to pull the guy on board. "No, no. God is my saviour. He will help me." The man drowns and heads off to heaven where he says to God, "Why didn't you help me?!" and God replies, "I sent you a jetski, a rowboat and a sailboat. What kind of help were you waiting for?"

I view my weight loss the same way. My mother died of a heart attack when I was ten. My father has just had his third heart attack. Am I waiting for a bigger sign? I think not.

I heard that.. That is a good one.

Yeah.. When me and my husband got married i put all the weight i loss back on.. And he said to me..... You don't have no reason at all to worry.. You got me and i got you. Now.. Me being the woman i am.. I don't have alot of faith in what a man will say.. I do have faith in my husband.. But when i told him the other day this weight thing isn't about you... He has to suck up his bottom lip and get over it.. I do love my husband..BUT if me losing weight gets in his way... Then Maybe just maybe I need to be with someone else.. I don't have to be married to a control freak at all... I don't need to be with a man that is like that.. But he does understand now.. That this is for me..... He was always saying to me at 2 in the morning.. Lets go to ihop.... MEN>>>>

What wakes me up in the morning:

Like many of us, I love life too! Knowing I have so many things to do kicks me off the bed. A nice breakfast (don't worry, healthy foods only hehe) and maybe a significant other who prepared it for you? :D

What motivates me?

Knowing I will be fitter and healthier kepps me going. I also know that I have a good body and just some more work and I will have a NICE, GORGEAOUS A*S! hehehe. I love the feeling when people compliment my body.

Before, I din't want to let anyone know why I was losing weight. I just tell them that It's natural, with a shrug of my shoulders.

But now, I proudly tell them that my losing weight is because of eating healthy and exercising regularly.

They know how hard it is to do that and they understand that it takes discipline to do so. So they respect me all the more. :D

Ken