What's a good way to get motivated?

Question

I need to lose weight, but I cannot seem to get motivated..... any suggestions?

.. I will wait for 2 weeks until I deceide the best answer. There are too many GOOD answers to chose from.

Answer 1

Try this for a start, then go on to a healthy lifestyle, well balanced diet and regular exercise. This will work....



BASIC FAT BURNING SOUP

6 large green onions 2 green peppers
1 or 2 cans of tomatoes [crushed] 1/2 bunch of celery
1 large head of cabbage 1 pkg. Lipton onion soup
4 cups of water

Season with 1/4 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. pepper, 1/4 tsp. curry, 1 Tbsp. parsley, if desired or bouillon or hot sauce. Cut vegetables in small to medium pieces and cover with water. Boil fast for ten minutes. Reduce to simmer and continue cooking until vegetables are tender. This soup can be eaten anytime you are hungry. Eat as much as you want, whenever you want. This soup will not add calories. The more you eat the more you will lose. Fill a thermos in the morning if you will be away during the day. If eaten for indefinite periods you would suffer malnutrition.
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DAY ONE: All fruits except bananas. Cantaloupe and watermelon are lower in calories than most fruits. Eat only the soup and fruits. For drinks; unsweetened tea, cranberry juice, or water.

DAY TWO: All vegetables. Eat until you are stuffed with all the fresh, raw, or canned vegetables. Try to eat green leafy veggies and stay away from dry beans, peas, and corn. Eat along with the soup. At dinner time on this day, reward yourself with a big baked potato and butter. Do not eat any fruits.

DAY THREE: Eat all the soup, fruits, and vegetables you want. Do not have a baked potato. If you have eaten for three days as above, and have not cheated, you will have lost 5 to 7 pounds.

DAY FOUR: Bananas and skim milk. Eat as many as 8 bananas and drink as many glasses of water as you can on this day along with the soup. Bananas are high in calories and carbohydrates and so is the milk, but on this particular day your body will need the potassium and
the carbohydrates, proteins and calcium to lessen your craving for sweets.

DAY FIVE: Beef and tomatoes. You may have 10 to 20 ounces of beef and a can of tomatoes or as many as 6 fresh tomatoes on this day. Try to drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water
this day to wash away the acid in your body. Eat the soup at least once this day.

DAY SIX: Beef and veggies. Eat to your heart's content of the beef and vegetables this day. You can even have two or three steaks if you like with the green leafy vegetables, but no baked potato. be sure and eat the soup.

DAY SEVEN: Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices and vegetables. Again, stuff yourself. Be sure to have the soup at least once today.


At the end of the seventh day, if you have not cheated on the above diet, you will have lost 10 to 17 pounds. If you have lost more than 17 pounds, stay off the diet for two days before resuming again from day one.

This seven day eating plan can be used as often as you like. As a matter of fact, if correctly followed, it will clean your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well-being as never before.

After only seven days of this process, you will begin to feel lighter by at least 10 and possibly 17 pounds, having an abundance of energy. Continue this plan as long as you wish and feel the difference.

This diet is fast, fat-burning, and the secret is that you will burn more calories than you take in. It will flush your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well-being. This diet does not lend itself to drinking any alcoholic beveragesat any time because of the removal of fat build-up in your system. Go off the diet at least 24 hours before any intake of alcohol.

Because everyone's digestive system is different, this diet will affect everyone differently. After day three, you will have more energy than when you began, if you did not cheat. After
being on this diet for several days, you will find your bowel movements have changed. Although you can have black coffee with this diet, you may find that you don't need the caffeine after the third day.

DEFINITE NO-NO'S: Fried foods, bread, alcohol, no carbonated drinks, including diet drinks. stick with water, unsweetened tea, black coffee, unsweetened fruit juices, cranberry juice, and skim milk. If you prefer, you can substitute broiled fish or baked chicken {skinless} for the beef on only one of the beef days. You need the high protein in the beef the other day.

The Basic Fat Burning Soup can be eaten anytime you feel hungry. Eat as much as you wish. Remember, the more you eat, the more you will lose. Continue this plan as long as you wish and feel the difference both physically and mentally.

Any prescribed medication will not hurt you on this diet.

Answer 2

Ok, so you need motivation.
What I think will help you is you need to make food secondary to you. If food is your #1 priority now, well, make it your #10 priority. And then fill the #2-#9 priorties with new hobby's and things to keep you busy. In the mean time, since you won't be eating as much, eat healthy (salads, chicken, carrots, yogurt, strawberries, etc) Eat as much salad and fruits as you want and exercise, you will lose weight in no time. Go and sign up at your local gym, and for me, that was enough motivation, spending my own money. lol. And it paid off, because when you see those first pounds come off, it feels SO good. Then from there, you'll be on auto-pilot and losing weight will be a breeze.
The hardest part is stepping your foot in the door, after that, its easy!

Good luck!

Answer 3

There are a few things you can do to motivate yourself.

1. If you used to be "less heavy", find a picture of that time and hang it up where you will see how good you looked.
2. Is there anything coming up in the next year or so that you would love to look great for (class reunion, wedding, etc.) Think how great you would feel meeting your goal for this event.
3. Reward yourself. Think of something you really want and when you meet your goal you get it. Or, do it on a weekly basis: if you don't stick to your workout schedule, you cant do whatever it was you wanted to do on the weekend.
4. Think positve. Eventually you will get to where you want to be. It takes time. If it didnt, everyone would be skinny.

Answer 4

It sounds like to me that you are comfortable with your weight. Wanting to lose weight and needing to lose weight is two diff rent things. If you really want to lose weight I can help motivate you but it will take some coaching. I hope the websites below will help you out.

Answer 5

Activity motivates.

Sitting on your rear will not motivate you. Get a vision for your ideal weight and body tone and allow it to pull you into action. Have a burning desire and do not allow doubts or negativity or lazyness to steal your dream.

Also, for energy, try some Double X and XS energy drinks at my online sports nutrition outlet.

Best wishes,
adamray

Answer 6

Buy an Ipod Nano and some Nike+ so you can keep track of distance while running or walking and jam plus you will want to after spending $320.

Answer 7

Motivation for weight loss and fitness

Motivation for weight loss and fitness
One of the greatest difficult tasks is to motivate you for weight loss. After one month around, you start your enthusiasm in your weight loss and fitness program. I have learned few things that that has helped me to be motivating towards the fitness program and get my weight loss goal. I think these tips will also helps you as well to loose weight and keep motivated towards various weight loss and fitness programs.

* Once you have started your weight loss program, its a great idea to weigh yourself only once a week. If you keep on weigh everyday, you will only discourage yourself. If you weigh yourself only once a week, you will be able to analyses whether you need to make change to your existing routine or not.

* Keep a photo of a heavier version of yourself in plain view. This will keep be motivating how great you look after loosing weight than you were before loosing extra pounds. It will also prevent you from sliding back into old habits.

* Once you have achieved your weigh loss goals, and then imagine what you want yourself to look like. This will give you the motivation to keep the weight off.

* Keep setting higher and higher goals for you towards your fitness. If you do not set new goal for you and work to achieve them, then you will surely run in to our bed habit. As a result, you will not be able to keep the weight off. So it’s a great idea to keep on setting new goals and get in perfect shape. As you know it’s a really tough task to keep what you have achieved than what you are looking for.


These are some of ideas that keep me motivated towards my weight loss and fitness program. There may be many more reasons for you to motivate yourself to loose weight.

Answer 8

well when i needed to get back in shape for my sport... i was extremely motivated when i got back to practice after a 2 week brake and realized that i needed to catch up. Every one has different things that motivated...mine was a reality check. maybe you need one. ( i meant that in the nicest way possible)

Answer 9

list off reason to do it. With a reason to do something will get you motivated. The thing is you need to belive in the reason for it to work. good luck

Answer 10

Just do it. Believe it or not, motivation is secondary. It comes from DOING. Not the other way around.

Answer 11

Get some pixs of the type of body you want to achieve, post em up somewhere where you'll see them daily, and work hard to get there.