Hey everybody!
so the last few months i have really fallen off the wagon, so to speak. i have not stuck to any kind of healthy meal plan or guide, and my running three to four times a week has been none existent. i have been doing fairly well at keeping up with my weight training routine, and i love it! all excuses aside, ive let school distract me from my healthy routine, so i need to reasses my goals, and have a fresh start. i need people to hold me accountable for my actions and to be able to check in everyday to make sure i stay on track! i was just wondering if anybdy would be up to the task of being my motivator? and does anybody else ever feel like they just to need to start over and reassess their goals?

thanks for reading this, sorry it was so long! thanks for any feedback and support you can give me...

tex

I commend you on embarking on this mission again, but ultimately, you have to be accountable to yourself or you'll find a way to fall off track again. It is "motivators" and not... uh... "accountability-tor"? "accountant"? (Ugh, that last one is probably worse!)

If you can make excuses to yourself, no matter how valid they may seem, then ultimately you'll find a way to make excuses to someone else... it's only difficult to do that at first, but at the end of the day, that other person won't lose any sleep over your indulgences or laziness, so as much as you'd like them to hold you accountable, it will ALWAYS mean less to them than it will to you.

Find a reason to REALLY want it... I have a friend who had me photoshop her face onto a swimsuit model so she could put it on her vision board and look at it every day as a goal. I have another friend who looks at folks who are morbidly obese and it motivates him to get to the gym... figure out what really throws coal on your fire and immerse yourself in it!

That being said, if you want someone to motivate you with occasional words of encouragement or (obviously) biased opinions and tips, feel free to look me up; but if you want someone who's going to check in on you daily and remind you to log your workouts or diets... that's probably not gonna be me (and maybe it's just me that misses the point of being a "motivator" here).

Either way, I have faith that you're going to find a routine that fits your life and, ultimately, you'll be healthier and happier for it!



Every day, sister. Every. Day. Life likes to knock you down and throw wrenches in your plans, and like Napoleon (or Moltke the Elder, depending which sources you believe) said, "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy." I think you should take some time, every day if you can, to look at your goals, your plans and your life and re-evalute what's important (oh God... how Scrum/Agile-like of me... work is poisoning my thinking!) The truth is, though, that everything changes, and, as redundant as it sounds, an immovable man goes nowhere.

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into the bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot and it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend." Bruce Lee

I too have been thinking of getting/being a motivator but had no idea where to start.

So if you are looking for someone to bounce ideas off or just provide some general encouragement I would love to do so.

Mike

Tex, I oculd have written about the same post! The important things are that you realize what went wrong and you are ready to get it going in the right direction.

Very good stuff, Clifford. Making me think. Thank you.

I am just not feeling very wordy today, I guess. It's too nice outside!

There's definitely something here though... using the scrum process might make sense to weight loss. Thank God I don't have a boss making schedule decisions about my weight loss plans though!