As we start out on this journey that many of us hope will be a huge step in changing our lives for the better, we all have a driving force that caused us to sign up for a six-month commitment to dropping the pounds and being healthier individuals. That driving force is our motivator.
In life, there are many things that motivate us as individuals to make the decisions we make, many of which we become passionate about. And just as many of those decisions we often lose sight of for whatever reasoning, whether it be stress from work, family life, social life, the loss of a loved one, financial stresses, decision making for major life events, or even because we become confused and are in the state of denial to sheild ourselves of what others think. These cases we either forget while stuck in that moment or later in life we begin to regret not following through and yet we continue to neglect the fact that we should act upon these situations until it is far beyond where we were to begin with.
Life is filled with hurdles and unplanned situations that interject into our lives whether we want them to or now. Many of us have ways to handle these stresses in forms of unhealthy addictions such as drinking, smoking, drug use, and in this same realm of unhealthy addictions is food addictions/overeating. Let us all not allow unhealthy addictions to overtake us during our journey no matter what life throws our way.
How can we curb these addictions? Through motivation and support! As I stated previously, we all had some sort of motivator that drove us to pull out the credit card and commit to six-months of life changing adventure through this DietBet10. Write-down on paper, in your notes app on your phone, or on whatever you have easy access to your motivator. What is the reasoning you signed up. And most all of us can say to lose weight, but the true motivator to that is why? Why do you want to lose weight? That is our true motivator or one of our reasons of motivation to why we want to change our unhealthy habits, commit six-months of our lives to breaking these habits, and losing the inches and pounds.
Keep that notation on your motivator handy throughout the six-months to help keep you on track when you feel whatever your trigger is that can cause you to derail from your journey's path. Afterall, motivation, it's what drives us all! Best of luck to each and everyone of you during this journey. Stay strong and keep focusing on placing one foot in front of the other and moving forward.
As a side note, please remember that we are all here not only for ourselves but to provide support to others in similar situations. We all are trying to lose 10%. We all want to be healthier individuals. Let us not continue to be a statistic on obese or overweight individuals, let us become a statistic of those that have made decisions to change from being obese or overweight to those within a healthy range. Let us be examples for others that may need to see average people like you and I finding our own motivation and supporting each other to becoming healthier people.
-Patrick S. (PyroPat87)