What do you use for motivation when you are trying to lose weight?
113417
First of all - out of sight, out of mind.\n\nMake sure that you have plenty of low-calorie snacks available.\nGet hooked on fruit!  My favorites are apples and strawberries!\nDrink some coffee - Black or with splenda.  It's hot so it makes you feel full.\n\nLet yourself have some fries and cookies every once in a while.  If you are too strict then you will end up pigging out.
972440
I will give you a good motivation cyber tablet for nothing forget over the counter rubbish.......\n\nIt's called being POSITIVE with what you do no matter how trivial from cooking, cleaning, taking out rubbish, gardening, walking,whatever you do for a Job, just say to yourself No Negativity for this person...IT WORKS just takes a little time to adjust, ITS AMAZING HOW QUICKLY YOU BECOME MOTIVATED,\nOK i hear you say this guy is a nutter, BUT I have turned my life around from being like yourself un motivated feeling down and tired all the time...\n\nNow I walk with purpose, talk with confidence,and love the feeling I am getting from being Motivated like this....Not to mention how others around you lift cos you won't accept negativity..\nI always try to no matter what find the positives from any situation and not being bombastic either by the way about it , so lording it over those who want nothing better than to find the negatives..\n\nIt has improved my relationship no end and believe it or not my health as my diet has changed also thus losing weight.\n\nSo all I can say it comes down to ATTITUDE my friend change that then all good will follow CHEERS hope this was of some help,,,
1147911
Sign up for weight watchers.   Of all weight loss programs, they are the ones that have the most success in losing the weight and keeping it off. \n\nOf all the people who do it, they average losing 2 pounds a week.   Some people can do that or more, some will lose a pound or less, but do the math over 52 weeks.   What's more there's people there going thru the same exact thing you are and they all give each other support when there's bad days as well as pats on the back when there's good ones.\n\nI've lost about 40 pounds so far and want to lose about 70 - 80 more.   I know it's doable (all 80 pounds is, is 40 twice, right - I've done 40, so I can do 2 more 40s).  I hope that was motivating for you....   It motivated me.. tomorrow is my weekly weigh-in and I'm feeling psyched!!.
41815
First, ask yourself why you want to exercise.  The next steps depend on your answer.  Say you want to fit into a certain dress for a party or something.  Keep the dress somewhere you will see it all of the time.  If its to just to be healthier, first only get food that will be good for you.  I've never actually done this, but I've heard keeping an exercising journal is helpful.  You just write down what you did for they day, what you've eaten, how you felt after exercising.  Look at what you wrote from the day before and try to keep of with that, and increase what you did a little.  Another way to make yourself want to work out is by rewarding yourself afterward.  Say you love a certain food that is fattening or whatever.  If you tell yourself "If I run for 2 miles today, I can have a slice of cake." You don't have to run two miles or have the cake, but fill in whatever you want.  I hope this helps and good luck!
290513
I am in the same predicament you are in. My doctor is telling me stuff I already know and i have no will power. like tonight i ate 3 bags of m&ms and a king sized twix but i will start tomorrow a new and try not to eat that crap.  what I do is excersice with a friend always because if I didnt i would do it. Its motivation. and I use a smaller plate so it can look full for the eyes and when I cook I only cook enough for 1 serving so when I want some more its none so I have to drink water to get full. Yeah, sometimes I dont always follow my rules but I wake up everyday and try again and harder. I havent weighed myself in a while because when i do and see that I have lost weight, my mind goes " what are you doing? lets eat more" and i gain it back but the best thing is to Wake up everyday and start brand new each day. if you break a day, its ok, try again. What I have learned is to not stop eating what you eat(as long if its not too much junk)just eat less of it. and excercise like crazy. oh, I also have been eating alot of fruits. I really dont like all the fruit thats available to me locally but i eat what i like apples, oranges, grapes, watermelon, strawberries, i just eat a different one a day.its called food rotating. Lucky with my job, one of my clients love to walk so 2 days out the week i have a good walk and my other client has to excercise more, so i motivate her by excercising with her and get strength training incorparated into those days. oh, i try to eat at least 6 times a day. breakfast lunch and dinner and 3 snacks but i dont always succeed, but i am losing weight, something i am doing is right because i can feel it in my feet and legs and sides where my bra is. hey, if you want a person to talk to about your days to give you motivation to keep trying im here for you sweety. so good luck. if you want to eat fast foods, try nuggets instead of burgers. and eat tacos. the whole point is to burn more calories than  you eat. good luck.
826047
Tape a picture of a really obese person in front of you.  Everytime you feel an urge to dip in to the chocolate bowl, stare at that picture.  Put some healthy, low cal snacks in front of you & try to satisfy your urge that way.  Hard, but you can do it, use your will power!
1019799
The following healthy living recommendations will help you if your trying to lose weight, have aspirations of building lean muscle mass, are attempting to get a wash board stomach, or just want to feel better:\n\n*1) Burn more calories then your consuming everyday and measure your results using the following formula: Calories Consumed minus Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) minus Physical Activity. Get a fitness calculator that you can put on your cell phone and computer. This will allow you to easily  calculate this formula, log your daily calorie consumption, and log your physical activities.\n\n*2) Eat natural and organic foods found on earth versus something created by a corporation to make money. Eat meals in small portions throughout the day and take a good multi-vitamin supplement. \n\nAvoid “High Glycemic Load Carbs” (sugar, pastries, desserts, refined starches such as breads, pasta, refined grains like white rice; high starch vegetables such as white potatoes) and drink lots of water. \n\nDo not try fad diets. Here is an excellent food pyramid that anyone can follow: http://www.rayandterry.com/html/images/PyramidLRG.gif?osCsid=26a424be471d1337e7c2f105d5c64d9d\n\n*3) Exercise on most days by doing cardiovascular training and/or resistance training activities. \n\nRead a book or find a certified trainer to make sure your doing all resistance training exercises correctly. A great book to buy that teaches you the resistance training basics is “Weight Training For Dummies”. A superb magazine to buy with excellent resistance training routines that will not get you bored is "Muscle and Fitness". Signup for the free newsletter.\n\nA good book to buy that teaches you the cardiovascular training basics is “Fitness For Dummies”. \n\n*4) Get plenty of sleep. Sleep experts say most adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep each night for optimum performance, health, and safety. \n\n*5) Educate yourself continually on health issues. A good free publication is  “Dietary Guidelines For Americans 2005”. A superb book to read is “You The Owner’s Manual”. An excellent periodic publication is the “Nutrition Action Health Letter”.\n\n*6) Make a life long commitment to good health. A great test you can take to measure your biological age is at http://realage.com Look at other areas where you can improve your health. For example, make improvements on the quality of the air you breath. Review outdoor air quality forecasts where you live and get an indoor air purifier. Email me if you want a good air purifier recommendation and if you have other questions.\n\n * Click on all the source links below to get the full benefit of the recommendations. The answers presented to your health questions are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
1181981
hmmmm.  Sorry to say, exercise. But for the TRULY lazy, liposuction, bariatric surgery...\n\nAll rather extreme and unnecessary if you are JUST plain lazy.  Exercise and a balanced diet.  Get a pedometer--it will get you motivated when you see just how lazy you are. Trust me.  I'm lazy, too, but I got one and found just how sluggish I was.  (yikes!) Seeing a relative who is just as lazy have a heart attack or having issues because of diabetes might make you move, too.  It worked for me, as of last year I've lost more than 50 pounds.  At my worst, I weighed over 250 pounds.  I weigh a lot less now.  \n\nI use an excercise bike on my lunch hour (30 minutes=6 miles) then use the other half hour to eat a light lunch (lean cuisine.  Their food is excellent and a great variety.)  Drink more water.  After a while, you might fnd you like the rush you get from moving around--and not huffing and puffing from being out of breath. Watching your legs and body become more muscular is a great motivator, too.\n\nIf you don't want to do at least that: 30 minutes a day 5 days a week on a bike, or walk for 20-30 minutes everyday...than cut out soda. It is liquid candy.  \n\nSoda Math for Weight Loss\nFOR WEIGHT LOSS ANSWERS \n  \nHere's simple math on the impact of cutting down soda. \n\nIf you consume 1 can of regular soda a day, how many pounds would you lose if you eliminate that?\n\nThe Math:\n\n1 can of regular soda contains about 150 calories. Giving up 1 can a day is equivalent to giving up 150 x 365 = 54,750 calories a year.\n\nFor every 1000 calories burnt you lose 110 grams of fat, or about 1/4 pound.\n\nTherefore, giving 1 can of soda a day equals not putting on 54,750 / 1000 x 110 = 6022 grams, or about 13 pounds.\n\nYou can be 6 kg or 13 lb a year lighter by giving up that 1 regular can of soda a day.\n\nGood luck.
52978
i keep a picture of myself before i lost 60lbs.  the picture is taped to my car visor and i look at the picture and give myself a pep talk.  i look at the picture when i don't want to exercise or when i get a serious craving for french fries.  because i don't ever want to go back to that again.
1021819
Believe it or not, exercising increases your motivation to stick with a diet. Lots of women binge eat or overeat due to stress or emotions (or hormones) and exercise short circuits this response more successfully than pills and other mediums. \n\nIf you want to stick to a diet, start exercising regularly - at least 3 times a week for an hour each time - and make 20 minutes of each workout weight training. Even better, add one session of yoga a week to your exercise regime and this will help enormously (the calming effect of yoga enables women (in particular) to control their weight more effectively).
541801
1. Find something you love doing and go for it!\n\n2. If you have to do something you are not so keen on, you have to develop motivation by thinking of the goal or payoff you get from it.\n\nFor example, if you have to clean out the garage and have been putting it off, just imagine how you would feel when the garage is clean, the junk thrown away. What a relief you would feel. If you can see the desired objective, imagine it vividly, and make it seem real and concrete, you will be more inspired to do the necessary work to reach your goals.\n\n3. Define your goals specifically, your time frame, and the steps you have to take to reach your goals. Making your objectives specific and measureable go a long way in keeping you on track.\n\n4. Take small steps and celebrate each milestone toward your goal. For example, you want to reduce your wieght, but haven't been able to keep on a diet. Make a plan to reduce a few pounds each week, measure your progress on a chart, and celebrate your success on meeting each weekly goal (but not by eating, of course!).
888897
I work at a gym and try to counsel a lot of the ladies that come there.  Here is the advice that i give to many of them who like to binge on fatty foods and eat when depressed.  Stop buying those fatty foods.  Stop tempting yourself.  If it isn't there, you can't eat it.  (Clean out your kitchen and pantry --excuse to exercise- lift all those cans and garbage outside!) I tell them that they should shoot for only eating foods that they have to prepare themselves.  To actually cook.  This might stop you from wanting a snack if you actually have to make it.  Have apples and fruits around instead of snacks.  Have yogurt around.  when eating fruits, cut them up and slow yourself down.  PORTION is very important.  If you are going to eat something fatty, MEASURE it out.  if you have a whole bag of chips there you will eat till you are overfull.  Measure it out so you only binge a little.  Cravings go away after 15-20 mins.  DRINK A LOT OF WATER.  Get a picture out of your target weight loss.  Look at it and know that you can achieve it.  You're in a funk right now but only you can get yourself out of it.  Be healthy.  just look at your daughter and see all the motivation you need.  From what you wrote, you already know what you want to do.  Now go and do it. Good Luck!!!
1056455
Personally:\nWhat i do is that i keep a picture of the "fat" me on the fridge so that I can see myslef whenever I go to the kitchen to eat. Second i keep trying the clothes that do not fit anymore as a motivation. \n\nProfessional opinion:\nHere are 12 tips to give your eat-right, move-more efforts greater endurance.\n1. Eliminate Excuses "Even if you're not a morning person, schedule exercise for first thing in the morning," suggests Martica Heaner, M.A., a New York-based exercise physiologist and author of Cross-Training for Dummies. "The later you wait to exercise, the more reasons you'll have for not doing it." Sally White, Ph.D., dean and professor at the College of Education at Lehigh University, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and an expert on motivation and exercise, agrees. "Keep gym clothes everywhere -- in the car, at work -- so there's never a reason not to go." So what do you need to do? Sleep in your sports bra? Lay your workout clothes out on the bed the night before? Ask a buddy to call and remind you to get moving? Figure out what works -- then do it.\n\n2. Kid Around Of course, finding time to work out was simpler B.C. (Before Children) -- but just because family precedes fitness on your list of priorities doesn't mean there isn't room for both in your life. Get your children involved with you. Take a family hike, go for a group bike ride -- or roll with it. "Scooters and in-line skates are great for kids and can be just as much calorie-burning fun for moms," says Bonne Marano, a certified fitness instructor in New York City. Plus, getting moving with you is good for the little guys, says White: "The children of families who exercise together are more likely to be active later in life."\n\n3. Plan with Your Man A study at Indiana University, in Bloomington, found that 94 percent of spouses who worked out together stuck to their exercise plans, compared with only 57 percent of those who went at it alone. Can't tear him away from the TV long enough for a bike ride? Then try using the word "ball" to entice him, offers Heaner: "If a high-energy kick-boxing class or body-sculpting session isn't his thing, shooting hoops or tossing around a football may be. A little one-on-one on the basketball court burns twice as many calories as walking. Even if you never make a basket, the sprinting and lateral movements will improve your coordination."\n\n4. Get a Gadget Investing in a simple tool that will measure the progress you're making can be a big motivator. Try something as simple as the New Lifestyles Digi-Walker SW-200 ($26.95, www.thepedometercompany.com), which counts your total steps over the course of a day.\n \n• www.thepedometercompany.com >> \n\nLooking for a fun way to figure out how many M&Ms you burned off during that extra-long elliptical session? Check out BalanceLog ($49 to $69, www.healthetech.com), software for your computer and/or Palm that logs calories in and calories out, then helps you devise a food budget based on how much exercise you get.\n \n• www.healthetech.com >> \n\n5. Write It Down Keep your own food and exercise log: People who are successful at losing and maintaining their weight are good at self-monitoring, according to several studies. "And remember to put positive feelings in print, too, to review on days you need a boost," says Rachna D. Jain, Psy.D., a lifestyle coach and licensed psychologist in Columbia, Maryland. Describing how good you felt after a workout, for instance, could help get you out the door next time.\n\n6. Seek Inspiration Feeling a little less than vibrant? Find a mental mentor to get you moving. That's how Sarah Ferguson, former Duchess of York, keeps revved. Saying negativity drains energy, she counts the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela among her positive-energy role models. Or consider George W. Bush: If the president of the Un
880076
Try going to the Weight Loss forum at About.com.  It's a wonderful group of people spanning all ages and following all different eating plans, some with great success and others struggling.  Some are just starting, some can't get their act together and others have been at their goal weights for years.\n\nI found the forum shortly after beginning a 70 lb. weight-loss journey and know I wouldn't have succeeded with either my loss or 2 year maintenance without that group of wonderful people.  Everyone will support you plus you'll find all kinds of motivation, advice and tips.  In some cases people do buddy-up.\n\nGo to...  http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?listMode=6&nav=messages&webtag=ab-weightloss
204779
Get some motivational tapes, or keep a list of goals in sight.  Also, it helps to create a routine.  Put a picture of something you want to reward yourself with, up somewhere so you can see something you are working toward.
486449
I highly doubt that they get some use out of it. I'll bet the answers do help them out. But usually people who are out of shape and are looking for guidance need more than help with their weight. Most people that are dealing with weight also have to deal with depression and other symptoms. In order for them to complete this goal of weight loss I beleive they need to treat the one with the other. When this is done, then results can be made. \n\nIf your happy and motivated you can do anything. But if your depressed and over-weight, how can you possibly deal with your weight in that state of mind.
115121
No. The only thing that works is your determination to lose weight.  No product will help unless you truly want to do it for yourself.