I think most people who read this blog either try to live healthy lifestyles by eating right and working out or really want to start being healthier. Since I'm in the middle of a diet reboot, I'm searching for motivation this week. I really want to know what makes you want to exercise when you just don't feel like it or what you think about when you're trying to stay on track with healthy food choices??
In the past, I set goals with rewards to help me in the motivation department. That's how I got to go skydiving, how I got my victory boots and part of the reason I went to Europe.
Now I'm trying a more internal motivation thing. I want my motivation to be feeling good from eating right and feeling strong and energized from exercising. I think its a process of continually reminding myself that these things are true. I feel better phsyically when I eat right and I have a better attitude about life after exercising.
What about you? What's your motivation? What's your better reason to paddle?
You are my motivation. Every time after I see you I'm motivated to start exercising or eating right. You are an amazing role model.
ReplyDeleteEven after this last visit? I was extememely unmotivated myself.
ReplyDeleteI follow what you mentioned: I generally feel better when I eat and get off my tookus and do something. There's just a general sense of tangible accomplishment that I don't get from my job.
ReplyDeleteIt's so much easier, too, when you have supportive friends. They make it fun to go to zumba or yoga or something such as that.
And my husband is on a totally different planet when it comes to athletic ability, but it's cool to watch him school people on the bball court. So, it makes me want to be better about exercising, etc in my own way.
Then there's the dance party factor...