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.
I want to lose weight because I want to feel pretty and not feel like others are judging me and my weight. I want to be able to buy any cute clothes I find without worrying that they have a big enough size or that it won’t look good on me.
My husband used to call me beautiful all the time, and he doesn’t any more. I want to lose weight to feel “beautiful” again. I have some health issues that are stemming from the weight I now carry, so it’s that too. Plus it’s hard for me to hang out with many of our friends because they are still thin or have reached their goals and are thin again. It’s embarrassing to realize that my arms are twice as big as theirs, or my muffin top is spilling over my not so tight pants.
I want to stop feeling sick and embarrassed, and feel beautiful again.
I want to lose weight to get rid of my diabetes 2 and live a long time. I finally found the most wonderful man and want to spend our lives feeling healthy and energetic. I am tired of being tired. I also want to look better and not so frumpy.
Of course I want to look & feel healthier but for me this is about moving my life forward in a positive way. I’m excited about all the other good things that will follow if I take this first step and make my health & well-being a priority.
I want to lose weight because I want to have more energy and be happier 🙂
hmmm…committed, but really hoping this makes a difference. I like how I look and feel when I am thin.
I want to lose weight because I know I will feel better and as a child of God I need to care for my body, mind and spirit.
I want to lose weight so I can wear designer clothes and be taken seriously in the fashion industry. I want more energy and a healthy long life so I can achieve amazing things and have lots of fun. I want my partner to be proud of me.
I want to loose weight so I can keep up with the daycare children better without be winded.
Day one tasks done & I have also walked 4kilometers (aprox 2 miles) hope I can keep it up for the next 29 days.
Yes, it is interesting to find out my true motivations for wanting to lose weight! And very enlightening. And yes, very motivating!
I am motivated to do this so I can be the best me I can be. I want to feel confident & happy about the way I look & feel.
I want to be strong and have adventures — do things (rock climbing, rafting, caving, etc.) I’m too afraid to do with my current health.
I am checking in. I want to lose weight because I wouldlike to feel better about myself and be a better role model for my kids
Breast cancer changed my world in 2011. I am looking forward to health and vitality in 2012. And my motivation is to use the tool of the 32-Day Weight Loss-athon to help me achieve renewing health.
So I’ve completed today’s task and as I wrote many reasons why I wanted to lose weight, the common theme was that I wanted to feel pretty! I do not want to look at myself in disgust when I look at myself in the mirror (my stomach especially)! Of course I want to be healthy and I want more energy, but overall, I want to feel pretty and be happy again!
We had our third baby girl last August. I still have some baby weight to lose. I want to lose it in time for mine and my husband’s “parents’ only” trip this Summer.
I struggle with fibromyalgia, and I know that struggle is always less when I am healthy. I want to have the energy to take care of my kids, be there for the special moments in their lives, and not be held back by health and fatigue.
I want to lose weight to make a number of things in my life easier – yoga, riding my bicycle. I also want to fit into all of the really cute clothes hanging out in the back of my closet. Most of all, I want to not cringe when I see myself in photographs.
Checking in day 1. That was eye opening! I want to do this to prove to myself and everyone that I can do anything!