What drives you to succeed? Is it a desire to do better? A need to be the best? Perhaps it’s the end result that drives you.
Weight loss, like education, careers and even relationships, only works when you have motivation. Sure, you can absently try to lose weight using the latest tricks and gimmicks. And it might even work sometimes. But when you have motivation – a true driving force like the desire to grow old and play with your grandchildren or a need to feel good about how you look – then you will be on your way to success.
But motivation isn’t all your need. You also need the tools to succeed (like a way to think about calories that makes it more real to you) and the drive to get there.
For Shawn, the desire has been there for a long time, but only when he started to use this calories as dollars concept was he able to actualize it and make it happen. This gave him the tools to take advantage of his motivation.
The funny thing is that this method of actualization has actually worked for a friend of ours too. Shawn told the friend about how he was thinking of calories — as dollars to spend — and how it made him think more carefully whether it was really worth it to spend $120 (calories) on a regular soda when a diet soda is free and leaves $120 for other foods – like some fruits or a slightly larger dinner portion.
The friend adopted it without telling anyone and has managed to cut out midnight sandwiches and other waistline-killers.
Me? I had the desire too, but being pregnant couldn’t make it happen. However since giving birth, and making careful decisions about our family planning, I now have my motivation and my tools to make it happen — without worrying that I’ll be gaining it back in a few months. My tool is this plan, which helps me weigh my caloric options more easily. And my motivation is to look like I did before I got married, so that I can wear my favorite clothes and comfortably shop for clothes in any store.
What’s your motivation?
