Day 1: Find Your Real (Not Pretend) Motivation | 30-Day Weight Loss-athon
Welcome to Day 1 of the 30-Day Weight Loss-athon! Let the fun begin. 🙂
We only have 10 minutes, so I’m going to get straight to today’s action task. This task will provide fuel to fire your motivation for the month ahead. I suggest you read through the steps first, then take 10 minutes to work through the steps.
And because we only have 10 minutes, you need to move fast, act quickly and stop over-thinking. Just throw yourself in. Ready?
What You Need:
- 52 Weight Loss Missions sample
- Pen
- Paper
- Several post-its.
Step 1
Remember the 52 Weight Loss Missions sample you downloaded? If you haven’t already, please read pages 6, 7 and the top of page 8.
These pages talk about your genuine, fire-in-the-belly motivation for losing weight. Not why other people want you to lose weight. Not why you think you should lose weight. But the desire deep inside you. This is what we want to uncover.
Step 2
Write at least 20 endings to the sentence below. Write fast. Don’t censor yourself. Let your pen go where your critical, analytical mind might not let you.
I want to lose weight because…
Step 3
Now read back over your answers and pick one or to two that excite you.
Don’t be surprised if they aren’t the reasons you’ve been giving yourself for losing weight. If you’ve struggled to lose weight, then there’s a good chance your supposed reasons are not very powerful.
What you’ve just uncovered is a powerhouse of motivation. Let’s make sure we use it…
Step 4
Write the exciting reason(s) from Step 3 on some post-its, and put them in several places you’ll see them regularly, eg:
- On your bathroom mirror
- In your wallet
- In your diary
- On your computer
- On the fridge door.
Let these reminders of your real motivation drive you over the next month.
Check in!
And you’re done! Be sure to leave your comment below to check in and stay accountable.
See you back here tomorrow.
Checking in on Day 1!
My Dad is only 69 right now and going through a myriad of severe health issues all because he has been severely overweight his entire life and not taken proper care of himself. My mother died almost 4 years ago due to complications from not controlling her diabetes. I want to lose weight so I change my family tree! I want my daughter (and hopefully other children) to have a healthy, happy and fit mama who not only insists that they eat healthy and are active, but is a fabulous health role model.
This may be a little selfish- cancer is taking my breast and a reduction is in my future- I will look a lot better if I can reduce the rest of me to match my smaller breasts- It hasn’t happened yet but probably this month-
I want to lose weight because I want to feel more confident and I want to be healthier. I’m tired of always running out of energy and feeling exhausted.
I feel more self confident and have more energy when I am thinner.
I want to lose weight because I will look better and my health will improve.
Okay… as vain and selfish as it sounds (and believe you me, this is the hardest part – admitting the real reason why) I want to loose weight cause I want to look pretty again – not just have people say it, but I don’t want to have my back shelf anymore and I want to FEEL pretty myself… AND I want to loose weight cause I want to be able to keep up with my kids and not get winded after walking to the park (literally a 2 min walk from my house).
I know that I’m not supposed to worry about the outside, but how am I supposed to be able to love my God with all my heart when I can’t even like myself?
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Not a writer Nd generally don’t write things down when books suggest it. But I did this and couldn’t believe how quickly my list grew! Day one completed 🙂
I have completed the mission, but I don’t really want to stick my motivations all round the house where my kids can see them.
I’m going to sound very vain but my answer is I hate how I look, I look/feel fat and bloated! I want to feel pretty and sexy again.
Leana, see your not the only one. 😉
I realize I don’t like the way I look or how my clothes fit, it is time for action!
I want to look good in my clothes again. Also, I want to prevent Type II Diabetes. Both of my brothers, who are younger than me, have been diagnoses with Type II Diabetes and are on insulin. I do not want to live that way!
I had no idea such a simple exercise could be so enlightening. I want to lose weight so that I can feel sexy again!!!!! That is far for the reason I thought I wanted to lose weight. I think this is going to work.
Done.Thank you.
I decided my #1 motivation is to have more self-confidence/be more confident…so I wrote “be confident” on 3 post-its and put them on my desk (where I spend most of my day), on the fridge at eye level and in my wallet to remind me not to eat out or buy fast food.
Day 1 complete!! My boyfriend is also taking this journey with me.
Thanks, Excited to see what I can accomplish with this program.
Salena Buress
I did the exercise and discovered that my real reason is about feeling better about who I am.
Listed 7 reasons to lose weight.
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