Archive for the ‘Motivation’ Category

There are lots of weight loss motivation tools you can try, but the thing that motivates me might not work for you.   This video talks about different weight loss motivation methods and how each person has to find what’s right for her.

Monday Motivation

I have often heard that it takes 21 – 30 days to form a habit.  For instance, if you’re trying to add a daily walk to your schedule and you can make yourself do it every day for 3 – 4 weeks, it will become a habit; you’ll just do it without thinking about it!  Or maybe you’re trying to get into the habit of packing your lunch for work every day rather than going out.  If you do it every day for about a month, it will become automatic!

The same applies to a habit you already have that you’d like to change.  If you resist the mid-morning muffin or the after-dinner ice cream for 21 – 30 days, you will have developed a new, healthy habit!

The following video provides a little more inspiration to form good habits:

Monday Motivation

If you want your diet and exercise program to be successful, you cannot continue to wake up every day and decide all over again whether or not you are going to follow it.  It has to become an automatic, non-negotiable part of your day.  In this video, Penny spells it out  in clear, no-nonsense terms.

Monday Motivation

I love this quote from Vince Lombardi:

” The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay     for  success.  I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.”

Have you ever really accomplished something, met a deadline, or achieved a goal without working for it?  We won’t ever meet our fitness or weight loss goals by just thinking about them.  The time for planning is over; start taking small steps, one right after the other, and you will get to where you want to be!

Here’s a video of what one woman, Kim, uses to motivate herself to keep working hard.

Monday Motivation

I think this video says it all when it comes to looking for a reason to get up off the couch and get active!

Don’t end up like this guy.  If you haven’t already, start your fitness program today!

Monday Motivation

“Your life can be amazing, but the only one who’s going to make that happen is you.”

Just before the new year started, I read this quote over at one of my favorite sites, Get Rich Slowly.  This idea can be applied to any part of your life but today I want to relate it to fitness.

Getting started with a new fitness program is easier said than done.  You can’t decide which activity to start with, when is the best time, where you’re going to work out.  What if you choose a DVD with a routine that’s too difficult?  What if you’re self-conscious at the gym?  What if your aerobics instructor is a perfect goddess and you hate her?!

Guess what?  The choices you make today are not written in stone.  You aren’t stuck with any of them.  The point is to just do something.  Promise yourself that you will do some activity related to improving your fitness and take the first step, even if it is a baby step.   I will take a 5 minute walk before my shower today.  I will do the first 10 minutes of my new workout video.  Don’t enjoy those activities?  Pick something else for tomorrow.  Stop thinking about it, stop procrastinating, stop making excuses.  Just do something and do it today!