Question for you. When you get motivated to lose weight, what is the one driving force behind your desire?
Without question, your motivation will fall into one of two categories: Pleasure or pain avoidance.
A “pleasure” motivator might be something like:
- I want to attract a spouse.
- I want to be more attractive to my current spouse.
- I want to feel good about myself when I look in the mirror.
- I want jaws to drop when I walk along the beach in my bikini.
- I want to look good for the class reunion next month.
Pain avoidance might be:
- I don’t want to be single my whole life.
- I don’t want my spouse to stop desiring me.
- I don’t want to die of a heart attack at an early age.
- I don’t want to feel tired and exhausted walking up one flight of stairs.
My suggestion today is that you should pick a motivator from both categories. Pick a pleasure motivator AND a “pain avoidance” motivator.
The combination might just create a powerful combination of emotion within you that practically FORCES you to take action instead of just wishing it would happen.
Good luck. Feel free to share your motivators as a comment below.