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| 144.1 | Ego Builder | ENUF::ROYER | | Wed Oct 28 1987 13:35 | 15 |
| Hello,
What motivates me? EGO!!I can't stand to look in the mirror and
see too much fat. It will throw me right into a depression and
then I do someting about it. Since eating can be fun especially
pastries (My downfall), I consciously make a game out of it and
give myself mini-rewards for being good. I also take ti just one
day at a time. Rewards? Guilt-free praise, a piece of clothes
at the end of a given time, buy a book. The key is to do it one
day at a time and if you blow a day forgive yourself and start fresh
the next day.
Good Luck
Mary
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| 144.2 | Old age creeping up ... | SHIRE::BIZE | | Thu Oct 29 1987 00:11 | 28 |
| I don't know where I first got the motivation. For years and years,
I was telling myself I should definitively do something about my
weight, but never did, or got discouraged after losing 5-10 pounds.
I was mostly trying on fad diets.
I have started my 10th week on WW and it's the longest I have ever
been on any diet. I have lost +20 pounds even though I binged a
few times (about once every two weeks I get a fatal craving and
eat anything in sight!
What keeps me motivated now is:
- I look much better than I did;
- My 32nd birthday is coming up 2 weeks from now and I have fixed
myself a goal of "under" 133,3 pounds - that may seem a funny
goal to you, but it translates to 60 kilos, which is both a round
number and what I weighed before being pregnant... 8 years ago.
It's still too fat obviously but to me weighing less than I did
8 years ago really represents something.
How will I keep motivated when I have lost all the weight I need
to? That's really a big question. My hope is that I will feel so
good about myself, that I'll just stay at a reasonable weight out
of pride!
Joana
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| 144.3 | A PICTURE SAYS A THOUSAND WORDS! | SNOWAY::SNOW | | Thu Oct 29 1987 06:32 | 23 |
| I kept putting off losing weight until we got our vacation pictures
back from our camping trip to Maine this summer. There I was, standing
on the beach in my bathing suit and a t-shirt....."gawwwwwwwwd,"
I said, "is that meeeeeeeeee?" "Who let me out in public looking
like that????" I have pinned that picture in a place where I see it
every morning when I am getting dressed. It surely motivates me to hop
on my exercycle. During the day I drink lots of water.
What keeps me motivated are people...my family (especially our boys
ages 11 and 14...it's nice to know they really care that I am taking
care of myself)...the folks I work with are very supportive, too.
I have told the people I am closest to and spend most of my time
with that I am on a weight loss program. People are starting to
notice the weight I have lost, and the compliments on how good I
look are the best form of motivation I could get!! I just take
it one day at a time...cause if I don't, I expect too much too soon.
Smiles {8-)
Lin
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| 144.4 | Well, you see, honey... | PLANET::WATKINS | Don't mind me-low brain cell count | Thu Oct 29 1987 11:16 | 16 |
| I have (to my dismay) gained so much weight in such little time
I think I should be thrown in jail! I have fooled around on diets
here and there, but I guess the seriousness of my problem hadn't
quite sunk in. On top of that, having always been thin up to now,
I didn't even know *how* to diet. I asked my SO what I wouldn't
like if I could read his mind, referring to a comment he'd jokingly
made earlier that evening, and wouldn't you guess what he said!
I knew what he was going to say, yet I wanted to hear it. I forced
it out of him, and boy, was I mad.
That was only a week ago, but I'll let you know what happens.
I think it may have been the best thing he could have done to motivate
me.
Stacie
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| 144.5 | Mirror, Mirror on the Wall.... | OASS::HEARNS | Henry | Fri Oct 30 1987 07:37 | 20 |
| <I'm Dancing As Fast AS I CAN>
What motivates me? I tell you what motivates me. I started attending
Modern and Jazz Dance classes 3 years ago. I was a 6:1 and 250lbs
blob. How I ever got the nerve to go into the studio with all those
perfect body dancers I will never know. I looked into the mirror
one time and saw all kinds of un-identified objects hanging off
my body. I never looked again. Now after changing the way I eat
and I really never say diet I am 6:1 and 185lbs. I look in the mirror
all the time now to see what part of my body I need to work on.
I fiqure I have about 10 more pounds to lose before I arrive at
my perfect desired weight. I am still motivated every time I look
in that mirror to keep working on my body and my weight.
Hang in there itis worth it.
Henry
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| 144.6 | Good Health Motivates Me | SRFSUP::TERASHITA | California Girl | Tue Jan 19 1988 12:07 | 8 |
| The way I feel when I don't eat right motivates me. And I mean
the way I physically feel. My body tells me that I've done wrong
by being sluggish and feeling just plain yuck!
Lynn
P.S. - New clothes in ever-smaller sizes are a bonus!
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