motivation?

[Stina1]

Why is getting motivated so hard to do? I have in my mind what I want but dang - I cant stay focused. Anybody got some advice?

[Zoupa]

I don't understand people that can't motivate themselves. The act of cheating makes me so disappointed in myself that it just isn't worth it to do it in the first place. And the feeling of knowing that I'm disciplined and that I can resist temptation gives me enough satisfaction to stay on track.

[Wild_Weasel]

I look in the mirror or grab a huge handful of my gut to get motivated, that's all it takes.

[audipotential]

This motivates me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTCcPdiefv0

[AngryLlama]

Originally Posted by Wild_Weasel

I look in the mirror or grab a huge handful of my gut to get motivated, that's all it takes.

QFT. Also just think about yourself grabbing it while you are running.. that will also motivate you.

[lolzzz111]

Originally Posted by audipotential

This motivates me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTCcPdiefv0

OMG, I feel like I wanna go run run run and run tell I lose all the fat I have

Nice video

[scubyfan]

Originally Posted by Stina1

Why is getting motivated so hard to do? I have in my mind what I want but dang - I cant stay focused. Anybody got some advice?

I think what you're really saying is, "Why am I so damn lazy?" or "Why was it so easy to get fat and so hard to lose it?"

I'm sorry that it sounds harsh but I've been there and I've felt it. It's very hard to get going hard because losing weight is NOT easy. It takes determination, purpose, sacrifice, and hard work, like ANY worthwhile goal.

If you expected it to be handed to you on a silver platter, well, you couldn't be more wrong.

But here's the bright side: if you can do soul searching, pull your strengths together, and really give it a go with only success in mind, then you can do just about anything else in your life, because having total control over one's mind and body is the most important ability that anyone can master. Most people think they already have it but that's just not true.

Look in your heart, look at the road ahead. Remember that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Go for it!

[SB_Stong]

It is always the most difficult to get motivated from the beginning. People fail due to a lack of concentration and easily forget what they are trying to accomplish. It's so easy to lose your guard and go back to old habits. Stay diligent from the start, and eventually your body and brain will tell you that you are making progress. From there, staying on track becomes more of a natural routine rather than a chore. Finally, you will get to the point where you love what you are doing! Good luck.

[unsoberx]

Read a couple of books for motivation. Motivation doesn't come from supplements. Motivation comes from ideology, from ideas, from books.

Read "Awaken the Giant Within" by Anthony Robbins and "Man's search for meaning" by Viktor Frankl

unsoberx

Originally Posted by Stina1

Why is getting motivated so hard to do? I have in my mind what I want but dang - I cant stay focused. Anybody got some advice?

[-----------Tobi]

I wrote down rules and put them as my wallpaper on my computer screen. Personal rules help focus the mind. If it helps, add a penalty for disobeying the rules, but I personally don't need a penalty. Just knowing they are rules is enough.

[unsoberx]

In a country where the values are hedonism, consumerism, pleasures, food addiction, TV addiction, and in a tranquilized, passive society such as this is very hard indeed to get motivated for a strenous athletic activity, unless you are in a professional sports club with a coach pushing you. but most of us are own our own.

Most people where i live our out of shape and hate sports, people are very layback, which kills my motivation too, we are social-animals and we tend to imitate and assimilate the values of the society in which we live.

What i mean that if the society where we live is lazy, sluggish and not into sports we as humans adopt those values. by the same token if this were a more stoic, spartan, athletic society most of us would be a lot more motivated toward fitness.

so it's very very hard indeed to stay motivated all the time for exercising coz most folks around us are so lazy and out of shape.

That's why i try to read a couple of self help books some times, they give me a lot of motivation


unsoberx

Originally Posted by Stina1

Why is getting motivated so hard to do? I have in my mind what I want but dang - I cant stay focused. Anybody got some advice?

[senorhayabusa]

Do it for your kids.

You don't want to die early because you are obese.

Put your kids above all your pain and discomfort and desires to cheat.

[shrugs or drugs]

Originally Posted by senorhayabusa

Do it for your kids.

You don't want to die early because you are obese.

Put your kids above all your pain and discomfort and desires to cheat.

x2!!!

If your kids sees you eating, they will want to eat.
they are going to see you eating junk food, they will want junk food.

Eat healthy, and they will eat healthy.

embed a healthy lifestyle now in your life aswell as your kids lives so that they will not get to the point that you are now trying to recover from

[Fendi]

Originally Posted by Stina1

Why is getting motivated so hard to do? I have in my mind what I want but dang - I cant stay focused. Anybody got some advice?

lack of motivation to diet properly or to get down the gym?

i sometimes find it hard to get down the gym, but i tell myself how much better i will feel once i am down there. and i feel alive when i am in there pumping away..

motivation for eating well isn't so hard, i automatically know i will feel like **** if i cheat so that puts me off straight away.

[General2008]

All so kids can start getting a hard time at school due to how parents look.

Not only will it make your life better (because you will feel better) that on its own will reflect on your children (your new happiness) they will also see there mother more confident and studys have shown that confident and out going personalitys reflect on your children from an early age.

It will also teach them a lesson about health and that its important to try and be healthy.

[14Lonewolf]

357 mak 11 stay true
Crip blue what it do
Who are you?
Feelin blue?
Nah im coo

Well well freddie, well, well....

Best thing to do is go pickup a Burger King menu meal and a lrg milkshake

Go outside, slam everything on the ground

Skip and dance to your car

Go home get some sleep an repeat as nedded.

Good luck

Tip....Park car further away from restaurant as you advance

[TexanAviator]

You have to find what motivates yourself. For me it is seeing guys (no homo) with great bodys pulling all sorts of good looking tail. Being healthy, in shape, and not having their back hurt at 26 years old

Plus it is also nice to look forward to nice healthy meals. This makes "bad food" so much better as I allow myself ONE cheat meal a week to knock my metabolism around. Yesterday I had a burger from Whataburger with a Coke. It was great, and such a treat to be able to give myself for doing well. I had weighed in and found that I lost my first 10 pounds since I began not too long ago, I feel great and you should too

[jess_muscles]

motivation is the hardest part of leading a healthy lifestyle because without it, you can't stick to a plan long enough to see any results.
i try to keep myself motivated through a variety of things

1-we all have a reason for doing this, whether it's to be healthy and live longer, feel good, look good, compete etc...so try not to forget the REASON you are doing this. remind yourself every day.

2-make exercising fun in every way possible. i always make sure ive got funky gym gear to wear, inspiring music on my ipod, a reliable training partner when i need picking up. and mix things up. if the thought of going to the gym makes you want to pull your hair out, dont just refuse to go. instead, go for a jog outside. do SOMETHING.

3-humans respond heavily to visuals. keep pictures of successful people who resemble your ideal figure. look at them when you lose motivation.

4-keep track of your progress, because when you make progress it makes all the hard work worthwhile, and that in turn motivates you to keep going.

5-finally, enjoy life. dont make this the centre of your world, and dont over think it. just do what you need to do (train hard, eat well, rest) and the results will come in time. and in the mean time, do other stuff that makes you happy, because as long as you are emotionally well, you will remain motivated.

well thats how i stay driven anyway!!

[unsoberx]

Hello: I agree with what you said, and it's related in my earlier post comment, that we are social-animals, not individualist-robots, what i mean is that we tend to get stimulated, influenced and impacted by the environment and sorroundings in which we live our daily routines.

If the place where we live is full of out of shape, lazy, layback people, wether we want it or not we tend to assimilate those behaviour patterns. But if the place where we live is moralizing, beautiful, motivating and the people themsleves are possitive, energetic, happy, optimists it would be easier for us to get motivated and energetic.

Most people around here all they do is smoke, there are a lot more fast food joints than gyms around here. In fact in this whole city where i live there are only like 2 gyms

People here are VERY VERY LAZY, no wonder they die young at 50 of heart attacks, and hospitals are full of diabetic folks.

What a low living standard, they have big cars, but very very bad physiology. They spend all their hard earned dollars in lawn, house and SUV and none in their decadent body


But what i do is that i try to read self-help books and i keep pictures of bodybuilders and important people in the walls of my home-gym, along with motivating quotes

unsoberx

Originally Posted by jess_muscles

3-humans respond heavily to visuals. keep pictures of successful people who resemble your ideal figure. look at them when you lose motivation

[SpaceButler]

Originally Posted by unsoberx

People here are VERY VERY LAZY, no wonder they die young at 50 of heart attacks, and hospitals are full of diabetic folks.


unsoberx

Thanks for crossposting this. I was worried I might have forgotten it if it wasn't posted in several threads...

As far as my two cents for motivation, it really is a downer that unless YOU come up with the motivation yourself, it's very very hard to make anything last. That said, I do think the hardest time is right when you start. What helped me was to make small goals, and set a time limit: like losing a belt hole in 2 weeks or something. With that challenge always in front of me, I would woork my ass off every day because it felt like I didn't have enough time, as opposed to it feeling like it's an unbearably long process.

Hope you get it figured out. Inspiration is all over this forum.