How do you stay motivated?

decentreader · Mar 5, 2015

Its an excellent work of home gardening.

damini · Mar 5, 2015

I'm back to walking after a gap of 4 months. I've put on weight and few dresses are tight.
So,What motivates me?!

1. About 6 years back I had severe backache and my mom came to help me out. That was my wake-up call. I don't ever want to call my mom for things like that. That's my motivation.
2. My backache has come down drastically and allergy-nasal block-wheezing cycle goes down with yoga. Plus the exercises I'm taught are easy to do:hide:. That motivates me during the nov to Feb months.
3. I don't know why but walking gives me a 'high'. I feel good that I'm doing something right for myself.
4. I've always been a over-weight person in relation to my height. It feels good to be a little more proportionate.
5. My family thinks after losing weight I'm looking 'sick'. I want to look healthy and that is my biggest motivation now.

I still battle certain issues every day. I've sweet tooth and festival time is tough. Though I’m much better in portion control now, the temptation is irresistible. I don’t rest till the sweet treats are finished off.
The only snacks I buy for myself are Dates and groundnut chikki. When I feel hungry in the evening I’ve coffee with or without sugar instead of my usual green tea without sugar.
I do a bit of emotional eating and do eat more when I need that energy. I do get back to normalcy the next day.So its ok.
I see the healthy eating and exercise as a way of life. I try to do as much as I can and yes, there is a lot of scope for improvement.

Madhumagie · Dec 22, 2016

SGBV said: ↑

I don't treat myself as a machine, but as a lively woman.

That saying, I do not stick to certain tough rules of life when it comes to dieting and work out. But I do my own flexible diet and work out sessions based on my physical and emotional strength. All the time, I ensure, I enjoy what I do. That keeps me motivated.

I have gone for a complete health check-up prior to visit my dietitian. According to her suggestion, I have learnt so much about healthy food that could help me loose weight.

From that point, I realized where i went wrong to gain this much of weight in the past years.

My wronged areas were:
Skipping break-fast
Too much of canned beverage and coffee
Spicy food
Plenty of banana (since I had motion sickness, someone directed me to eat lot of bananas)
Less water
No walking... Not at all.. Even I seldom go to the 3rd or 4th floor of my own house on a daily basis.
No house hold chores (all the time we had maids and gardeners)
Always siting at office
Skiping meals or substituting it with fast food all the time
Lot of frozen food
Always fry veggies and fish to make it taste good
Eat cookies and biscuits randomly without counting
Staying awake till late night - till mid night
Lot of stress
Lot of travelling; thus no time for physical exercise

Having learnt where I went wrong to gain weight in the past, I completely stopped everything that I consider as wrong living.
First of all, sent off all the maids... Started cooking 3 times. That gave me lot of work in and around the kitchen. Bending, stretching at the same time enjoying the fun of cooking different items.
Also, I ensured less to no oil is included.. healthy veggies are substituted for junks
03 meals are readily available so outside eating is restricted.
Planned to cooking, counted the calories and maintained the diary

Do lot of household chores together with hubby and kids
It is fun to see us all do chores in and around the house. Cleaning the floors, watering the plants, dusting the windows, furniture and arranging beds are enough to make me sweat. Because ours is a big house; thus so much work. Again, I do the chores too fast, so it gives me real work-out with double benefit.

I walk as much as I can... Walk to the nearby places, walk within house-climb stair cases, walk around the garden by seeing the flowers, walk inside the office... use stair case instead of lift etc..etc..

Play with kids, and do minimum exercise with them. Enjoy with my mom's physiotherapy exercise. That allows me to bend and reduce some sitting time. Also stress buster

I perform Yoga... 3 days Yoga class, and the remaining days I repeat the same with the help of CD. That gives me a lot of mental stabilization, happiness and a stress free life.

I eat break-fast a little later. Say at 9.30 am
Then I skip my default lunch. Instead, i drink lot of water, and fruits and also some healthy nuts. I fill my stomach with so much of water in the afternoon. My hectic work, and time spent with the net at office make me go without lunch so easily.

But I take early dinner. Perhaps at 6pm since I will be hungry after yoga or walking.

Then I will serve myself some fruits or nuts while watching TV at night.

Most of my household chores are in the morning only; thus I fill my stomach the needful in the mornings.

At night when I go to bed - (that too at around 10, unlike before) my stomach is almost empty. I fill it with water.

I wake up at 4.30am every day...

Instead of coffee and canned beverages, I drink lot of green tea.

I have been loosing so much of weight and getting back my shape without forcing me to anything that I like less.

I do the same chores during PMS too. But perhaps following a flexible routine.
I eat snacks when others eat it... But less in number or in moderation.

Whenever I could re-use my beautiful dresses of pre-pregnancies back makes me so motivated.

Just that I dont force myself to this "fit-health stuff" but just live in a healthy way.
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hi SGBV

I simply copy pasted whole of your post , to read it again and again and i shall stick it in on the walls with a big print out . thank you for posting wat i was looking for to " how to fix me " to loose weight