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.
So far everything you say, I think is genius….If you can help me with this too…you ARE the best!
The motivation was easy to pick out for me. Fashion! I simply love adorable clothes and don’t want to have to dress to hide my weight. I want to get up in the morning, go to my closet and choose a cute outfit that I’m in the mood for and slip it on knowing it will skim my body like it should. Also, I want to keep the newlywed feeling alive with my new husband and it’s just more fun when you look good naked! Lastly, I’m a water lover. I love boating, swimming, the beach or just laying around the pool. Feeling good in a bathing suit is key to continued water fun! So: 1) Fashion! 2) Excitement! 3) Fun!
I want to lose weight so I’m not in pain so often and to be healthier….I want to be around a long time for my kids!
I want to loose weight so that I feel better and look better. I also want to wear a smaller size clothing this summer.
Lots of my reasons were centered around wanting to feel sexy again. Yeah, I want to chase the grandbaby around, yeah, I want to be healthier, but I really do want to have my waistline and my cheekbones back, darn it!
I want to lose weight so I can feel good about myself again. I don’t like how I have let myself get out of shape and my self esteem has suffered because of this. I don’t pay attention to myself like I should. Also at my age I want to feel healthy and look good again. All my life I have always put everyone first and know I feel it is my turn to take care of me for once. I want to change how I look at myself on the outside as well as the inside.Changing some bad habits is the beginning for me.
did it.
To lose this muffin top!
I want to lose weight so that I have the energy to keep up with my kids and so that I can stand in front of the mirror and not cringe at my after kids body
Checking in on day 1 of the 30 day weight loss a thon…so one of my main motivations is that I want to loose weight because I now KNOW I am worth it!
Last year I became a grandma to this adorable little girl. She is my heart. Not only do I want to be around to witness all her ‘firsts’, I also want to physically able to get down on the floor, ride crazy amusement park rides, carry her when she’s tired and simply hold her while reading without feeling myself tire. Every time I eat crap, don’t exercise, I’m choosing living an unhealthy lifestyle over her. I want her to have a ‘meme’ for a long, long, looooooooooong time.
I want to loose weight so that I can regain the health that I have lost due to severe illness this past year. I want to be here for a long time…
I too want to lose weight to feel pretty and gain some of my self confidence back. I have allowed it to be taken from me over the past years. Also, I am awaiting a PET scan to see if my breast cancer has returned. I am a two year survivor right now and I want many more years. Am also having a liver biopsy in 1 1/2 weeks an weight loss was strongly suggested. So, I guess my big reason is I don’t want to die. I am finally making changes in my life to live for me and be happy. This is just a part of it.
It seems weird to me to say I want to lose weight because I want to feel good about the way I look. I’ve always thought I was confident enough that it didn’t matter but it came up a lot when I was writing my list. It’s sort of sad to think that I want it more to look good than to be healthy.
I have completed my tasks and have my notivations in sight! Thank you that was eye opening. Fit into all my clothes again, be asked out, look good in skinny jeans and be asked to dance all the time again.
I want to lose weight so that I can get off my medications and ward off heart disease!
I want to wear white trousers I have and feel as great as the day I bought them in 2004, to be able to wear what I want in social events not what my body allows me to wear, and to do my activities lightly.. In short: I want to be a butterfly: socially and moving-Ly!
I want to be in control of something and feel that sense of accomplishment. I need discipline and self-control in my life. I’m looking to Philippians 4:13 to give me strength-“I can do all things through Christ which strengthen me.”
I want to lose weight so I can fit into the lovely clothes in my wardrobe that have been unworn for 2 years and so that I feel comfortable in my own skin and not constantly thinking about trying to hide my fat bits.
I want to release the excess weight that has been clinging to my body to relieve the pressure on arthritic joints, look better in my clothes, be able to be more physically active, and just in general to be healthier.