So today I didn't bother weighing myself but I didn't think just a regular "Weight Loss Progress Update" post was necessary. Instead, I wanted to make a post about motivation itself, what motivates me, and maybe I'll talk more about how to motivate yourself during the process of losing weight.
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I've tried to sound inspirational in my previous posts to help better motivate my readers but I think I'm going to take the casual approach to writing my newer posts for the future. By casual I mean that I probably won't try too hard to motivate anyone, I'm just going to explain in detail on how I have lost weight in the past and what I did to get to my current weight.
What I Say When People Ask Me "What Motivates You?"
I actually don't get asked this question very much, but a very important person that I see regularly is my doctor and he asked me this before I even started. Maybe he knows my history from the past on losing a ton of weight which I have done at least three times already in my past, which you can read my About page here where I talk about that in a long 1000 word article.
I honestly have multiple reasons that I have lost weight in the past, and mostly similar reasons from the past to the currently most present. Some reasons I won't get into, but here are some reasons:
- Being made fun of for being so fat.
- Not being able to sit in a passenger seat on a small plane.
- Unable to sit in a seat at a cafeteria on a really big ferry.
- Not feeling confident about myself when I look at myself in the mirror.
- Having horrible health issues.
- Learning that I had fatty liver disease.
- Not being in shape for going on long runs.
- Not able to fit into a Kayak at all.
- Felt a bit awkward getting into a two-person canoe with a family member at the lake.
- Can't go to the beach and take off my shirt.
So there you go... and I'm sure a lot of people here can relate on this subject.
Why People Struggle With Motivation In My Opinion
I have seen a lot of people do awesome in school, but their biggest weakness is losing weight. They can get a Bachelors Degree in some course (which I would never be able to do myself), but losing even 20 pounds is just something they cannot do and I don't blame them at all.
Over the years I've learned that the lazy people I've met in my life (including some family members) are not like that because they don't care about themselves. Laziness is considered an illness now. I googled it and two words came up that might sound interesting. "executive dysfunction" is what I got in a Google search. In the description of this label for laziness in people it describes this sort of illness to be...
"Inability to start tasks, shift ones own focus, or even organize their thoughts. These are common symptoms seen in Autism and ADHD".
Since there is even more to read on people that suffer from this please check out this link.
How To Motivate Yourself To Lose Weight
Motivation is not achieved by taking a magic pill or anything easy like that. It's not an easy task to push yourself to do more, and if you want to do this yourself but your not used to it you could just end up burning yourself out. Maybe start out small and see what you can achieve. Move up more and more once you know what your capable of.
The process of motivation for me all started when I first lost weight during Middle School and I guess I can say it was from all the people that congratulated me on my achievements and complimented me on the way I looked that led me to be the person I am today.
I really don't want to brag about this, and I will admit that I have days where I don't want to get out of bed. People that know me will probably tell you that I am very persistent but I take things slow. I have just always been like this since that time frame of Middle School and I owe it all to myself, and the ones who saw what I could achieve and told me I did an awesome job.
The last thing I will mention is a Youtuber that I have been watching in the past here and there on motivating myself and he made a couple videos that really inspired me to do better and better. Take a look below...
Video 1:
Video 2:
I know some people that I have shown these videos too really didn't understand what the meaning was from watching them. So, I get it if you don't understand what the guy is talking about but, considering these two videos got thousands of views I can honestly say that it means a lot to me when watching these videos and I think that a lot of people have been motivated from watching them.
One last thing I will mention...
I will say that when I first started trying to lose weight that there was a learning curve to it that caused a huge realization that I made after trying some what hard to lose weight by riding my bike every day for over an hour or two hours. that 1-2 hour bike ride did nothing but make my legs stronger and made me more physically fit.
I don't regret having stronger legs but what I do regret is not knowing what it actually takes in the first place. I think a lot of people learn this in the very beginning though when they first try to lose weight for the very first time. After I learned that riding my bike with no portion control or diet at all you don't lose much weight at all I decided to take matters into my own hands and do something that I've never done before.
Fasting. And because of my routine at the time (going to Middle School from 8AM until 3PM and then delivering newspapers for about 2 hours after school) I was able to lose weight very quickly. I will admit though that this is something I don't recommend and I'm just admitting to what I did in the past.
It takes some energy to learn while attending school so maybe the best solution would be to fast at night time if you don't have much homework or the last thing I can think of is to just eat extremely healthy and hit the gym for 1-2 hours a day with a 1-2 day break on the weekends. Weight loss results with that routine takes a lot of time to lose weight though so results may vary.
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