Need some MOTIVATION!

[Honeywith4bees]

I've gained my customary ten pounds again this Winter (actually, it's more like 15! ) and it's time to take it off.


I am still going to the gym 4 or 5 days a week and practicing my Yoga 2 or 3 days a week, but my diet is terrible.

I have the knowledge and the ability to get my diet in order, but I just don't really want to. I really want to look awesome, but cooking, baking eating, mixing up interesting new drinks, they are all things that I really enjoy as well.

Any one with advice on how to get my rear in gear?

[JulieO]

You said it yourself - you don't want to. I don't know how you get over that.

I think it is just part of being an adult and sometimes the world sucks and you just have to do things you hate!! I know that is part of it for me!

I am gluten free and sugar free and it took me a long time to get to that. I have been thinking about becoming vegetarian or even going raw but that just seems to hard to make the leap.

Just take it one step at a time. Just eat something better once a day and work off of that. It is also a matter of seeing how much better you feel once you start eating junk.

Julie

[Angela]

Hw4B: what would you be being if you were at your ideal weight? What would your identity be?

[Andrew Brunelle]

If you are aware that your diet is "horrible," then every time you eat what you call a "horrible food," you send a subconscious message to your body that you are either not worthy of good foods or are choosing to damage your body with bad foods when good foods are readily available.

[Ekhart]

A well conditioned body

This brings you energy,helps you cope with stress better,look better and younger,and strengthens your sense of self reliance.
It also shifts hormonal balance and brain chemistry making you highly resistant to depression and anxiety,and highly prone to feeling good about your life.
Top level fitness leads to a freedom to achieve excellence in other non physical areas of your life as well.
It increases stamina,strength and flexibility,not only physically,but emotionally as well.
~ Leslie Kenton

[Andrew Gubb]

You can find ways of redirecting your creative energy. If you like baking, you can enjoy preparing other foods. If you love certain tastes, you can learn to love others.

Make the change - it takes effort to hold it while everything in your life shifts to accomate it, but once the shift is done, it would take effort to go back to the old way.

[Honeywith4bees]

Originally Posted by Andrew Gubb

Make the change - it takes effort to hold it while everything in your life shifts to accomate it, but once the shift is done, it would take effort to go back to the old way.

Thank you Andrew. Shifting my creative energy is important. I am also interested in the fiber arts, I will have to redirect some of my passion towards that.

Originally Posted by Ekhart

A well conditioned body

This brings you energy,helps you cope with stress better,look better and younger,and strengthens your sense of self reliance.
It also shifts hormonal balance and brain chemistry making you highly resistant to depression and anxiety,and highly prone to feeling good about your life.
Top level fitness leads to a freedom to achieve excellence in other non physical areas of your life as well.
It increases stamina,strength and flexibility,not only physically,but emotionally as well.
~ Leslie Kenton

I think that I will cut this out and tape it to my moniter. Love it! Thanks

Originally Posted by Andrew Brunelle

If you are aware that your diet is "horrible," then every time you eat what you call a "horrible food," you send a subconscious message to your body that you are either not worthy of good foods or are choosing to damage your body with bad foods when good foods are readily available.

So true Andrew. Food can be a self soother for me. Its easier to grab a donut than it is to stop and do some yoga etc. Thank you

Originally Posted by Angela

Hw4B: what would you be being if you were at your ideal weight? What would your identity be?

Oh Angela, always the tricky questions! I would be better than I am now. Prettier, more desirable, a better athlete, a better lover. Better. Always the drive to be better, which is what Personal Development is all about, right??

Originally Posted by JulieO

You said it yourself - you don't want to. I don't know how you get over that.

Just take it one step at a time. Just eat something better once a day and work off of that. It is also a matter of seeing how much better you feel once you start eating junk.

Julie

Thanks for the reply Julie. I go through periods of eating wonderfully, long periods even. But then the hormones rage and forget it, its all over. But yes, one step at a time is ALWAYS good advice. Thanks and good luck to you!

[Angela]

Originally Posted by Honeywith4bees

I would be better than I am now. Prettier, more desirable, a better athlete, a better lover. Better. Always the drive to be better, which is what Personal Development is all about, right??

Actually, I would say no. When you're focused on being better or more, you're constantly comparing yourself to your past self - and therefore focusing on that past, worse or less, self. And guess what? You get more of what you focus on, so you actually generate what you're trying to get away from. (That's why away-from motivation is generally pretty ineffective at generating consistent, ongoing results. It's great for blasting off from an urgently undesirable circumstance, though.)

Better and more are inherently limiting -- why not speculate about who you would be being as a brand-new, limitless possibility? If you were to fully accept what you're being - your looks, your loving, your athleticism, everything, and see how magnificent exactly as you are and exactly as you are not, and then to speculate about who you would be being if you were to choose this other way of doing that you're thinking about -- not a more and better version of your self, because your current self is perfect, whole, and complete, but what would be the identity, as a brand-new possibility, of a person who is choosing the kinds of actions that you're thinking might be a good idea to choose?