Hi all! As some of you may have seen on my Facebook page, I recently reached the ten pound mark. I credit a lot of my success to 1) the encouragement and support that I get from my awesome readers, Facebook fans, and friends and 2) my own personal motivation and determination. You can get all the support in the world towards succeeding in any endeavor, but none of that means anything if you can't motivate yourself. So today I want to blog about some things that I do to motivate myself.
I'll start out with my thought processes. So much of the battle towards improving ANYTHING is purely mental and I'll be the first to admit that I don't always win. For me, it's a new lifestyle and not a crash course diet so I don't let the days when I lose get me down. "Oops. I skipped the gym." Oh well, what's done is done and it's time to move on. I'll make up for it. "Oops. I ate a bunch of cookies or ate more than I intended to." Better not make that a habit and get over it.
When I work out and start to lag, I remind myself over and over why I'm doing this. I tell myself that I am not the kind of person to give up and that I fight on. I ask myself if I NEED something before I buy it or eat it (in the case of junk food).
You have to accept who you are and what you've done every single day. You are the only you out there and it's a waste of time to hate yourself or bring yourself down if you mess up. I've been in a state of self-loathing most of my life and I know firsthand how hard it is to change that mindset. But if you want to change anything, you first have to change how you think. The minute you hear that bastard voice in your head telling you that you're not good enough or you're too fat or ANYTHING negative, stop it. Just don't listen to it. Start telling yourself all the reasons why you're amazing. Look in the mirror every day and tell yourself: "I accept myself right now, unconditionally" (I got that from the "Hungry for Change" documentary I watched). Why would you want to improve anything in your life if you hate yourself? No one ever wants to work for someone they hate. The first step is to learn to love yourself and to love the life you've been given.
Another thing that I like to do is to surround myself with positive things. I like to remind myself to love myself and I like to remind myself what I'm working towards. Part of that is setting goals and part of that is positive reinforcement. I've posted some pictures of the things that I have around my apartment that encourage me.
I'll start out with my thought processes. So much of the battle towards improving ANYTHING is purely mental and I'll be the first to admit that I don't always win. For me, it's a new lifestyle and not a crash course diet so I don't let the days when I lose get me down. "Oops. I skipped the gym." Oh well, what's done is done and it's time to move on. I'll make up for it. "Oops. I ate a bunch of cookies or ate more than I intended to." Better not make that a habit and get over it.
When I work out and start to lag, I remind myself over and over why I'm doing this. I tell myself that I am not the kind of person to give up and that I fight on. I ask myself if I NEED something before I buy it or eat it (in the case of junk food).
You have to accept who you are and what you've done every single day. You are the only you out there and it's a waste of time to hate yourself or bring yourself down if you mess up. I've been in a state of self-loathing most of my life and I know firsthand how hard it is to change that mindset. But if you want to change anything, you first have to change how you think. The minute you hear that bastard voice in your head telling you that you're not good enough or you're too fat or ANYTHING negative, stop it. Just don't listen to it. Start telling yourself all the reasons why you're amazing. Look in the mirror every day and tell yourself: "I accept myself right now, unconditionally" (I got that from the "Hungry for Change" documentary I watched). Why would you want to improve anything in your life if you hate yourself? No one ever wants to work for someone they hate. The first step is to learn to love yourself and to love the life you've been given.
Another thing that I like to do is to surround myself with positive things. I like to remind myself to love myself and I like to remind myself what I'm working towards. Part of that is setting goals and part of that is positive reinforcement. I've posted some pictures of the things that I have around my apartment that encourage me.
I always have quotes on this mirror, though right now I have a countdown for when my BF comes home from his deployment. I also keep a list of goals in the upper left hand corner of the mirror, though that one's a bit old. Yes, those are ponies.
This is on the top of my full body mirror because I AM AWESOME. ;)
Yes, that's another pony.
Yes, that's another pony.
This is a new one. It's on the mirror above my sink that I use everyday (why do I have so many mirrors???).
These are my rad positivity bracelets by Alexa's Angels. :D I wear them every single day. I wanted them FOREVER and had to wait for them to go on clearance. :)
These are my jars to track my weight progress. The left one is for the pounds that I have left to lose and when I lose weight, I transfer the gems to the right jar. The star beads are for each goal weight and the disco ball is for my ultimate goal weight.
Yes, MORE PONIES. Deal with it.
Yes, MORE PONIES. Deal with it.
For every ten pounds I lose/milestone I reach, I'm buying myself a present. I lost ten pounds total so I bought myself new stickers.
This is my sexy scale. The heart says: My World, My Body, My Life, My Mind, My Heart, My Spirit, Myself, and My World in it for all the things that I love about me. :) It makes stepping on the scale more pleasant. A lot of people are afraid of this inanimate object, whereas I now love mine.
Feel free to steal or modify any of these ideas to help motivate you for whatever goals you have! :D It's a lot of fun. What do you do to motivate yourself?
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