Do It For You
As per usual, easier said than done.
It’s easy enough to say that you should lose weight for you. To live longer, to look better, to feel better about yourself. But more often than not, it’s difficult to start a diet with ‘for me’ in mind.
Why? Because many overweight people just don’t care that much about themselves.
Unlike what a lot of the skinnier population seems to think, being overweight is not always just a matter of “I’m a glutton”. There are mental, emotional, and psychological components all adding up to a lack of not caring about the value of one’s own life.
There are many reasons for ‘do it for you’ not being quite enough to get you busting to go to the gym.
So what can you do if ‘do it for you’ just doesn’t cut it?
Try making a list of the people closest to you. (Even if they don’t exist. My future daughter, not even conceived yet, has been a big motivator for me in the past.) You can use that as a list of motivators.
Not really close to many people? I know how you feel. The next step is to make a list of reasons you want to lose the weight. Even things like the little black dress/suit of your dreams.
It’s entirely possible that you’ll find you have lists of things that aren’t quite the ‘bottom line’ to get you to start changing your life. However, if you wait for motivation, it’s possible that you’ll never lose weight.
Sometimes it’s a matter of doing it and the motivation will come.
March 14th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
My main motivation is myself for losing weight-I’m sick of feeling like crap half the time. But my hubby and son are huge factors too.
For my son, I want him to be able to have the benefits of healthy living through his childhood so that hopefully, he won’t have to experience being overweight. It’s bad enough that the genes on both sides of the family are going to work against him, I just want to give him a headstart.
For my hubby, I know that he loves me no matter what. But I want to be able to make him proud that I made these changes, I’m sticking to it, and that he can be proud of me in public-the whole “Yep, she’s with me” thing. Besides, he’ll get to reap the most benefits out of it right?
March 14th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Haha! Yes, he’ll get to reap most of the benefits.
Maybe that’s why my husband is so supportive as well?
I need the backup motivations behind the ‘I want to feel good’ motivation. It helps to have those sort of ‘plan b’ and ‘plan c’ things there when I really want something bad for me or don’t want to go to the gym.