Positive motivation for weight loss

Focus more on where you want to be, rather than where you are.

"If I lose weight, I'll be able to do X"

That's the thing.

I'm making gym progress, I feel confident to do classes, I get male attention and can shop in normal stores again. My weight no longer feels like a hindrance.

I have fitness goals and inevitably I will shed the pounds because my lifestyle is general more healthy, but I just find that without the hatred to fuel me, I don't have the motivation to focus on weight loss.

@fatima1998 Oh, mine was very slow. My advice is useless. I have lost about 6kg and then plateaued for 6 months for the past 2.5 yrs.

That's the thing.

I'm making gym progress, I feel confident to do classes, I get male attention and can shop in normal stores again. My weight no longer feels like a hindrance.

I have fitness goals and inevitably I will shed the pounds because my lifestyle is general more healthy, but I just find that without the hatred to fuel me, I don't have the motivation to focus on weight loss.

@fatima1998 Oh, mine was very slow. My advice is useless. I have lost about 6kg and then plateaued for 6 months for the past 2.5 yrs.

tell me how you lost so much weight
i can't do it

and i can't even loose that much weight

It's great that you're making progress, that should help give you motivation to keep going! You've made so much progress so far, you should be able to keep going.

The goals and the focus on your health should still motivate you. You still have things you can achieve, you can still improve your life. If those are things you care about, it should be motivation!

For some people, though, their health and fitness isn't a priority. That's fine. But if you don't care a lot about improving your health and fitness, because you're now at a level you're happy with, that's totally fine - that's some body positivity right there.

I love the quote, "Workout and eat healthy because you love your body, not because you hate it."
Try to focus on how losing weight has made you feel better, rather than how your body looks.

First, determine whether you have to. Being underweight is just as unhealthy, if not worse, than being overweight.

Then if you still think you need to lose weight, increase your activity levels and reduce your caloric intake. It may be useful to keep a food diary for a week or two to see what you're eating. You may snack more than you realize. A complete change in lifestyle may be unrealistic (easy to go for too much change at once) so begin making small changes and avoid temptation.

For me, I knew that pastries and sweet cereals and the like were my "problem foods". Once I stopped eating those and instead switched to cooked breakfasts or healthier cereals like muslei, I found that I was already at a calorie deficit. Once that became habitual, I looked at making other changes. More recently I have reduced my carbs. I went for 0 carbs initially but that wasn't sustainable so now I'm having medium and low carb days depending on what I'm doing.

Bruv, it's honestly so simple. Eat less, eat right, walk a lot (go play pokemon GO or smth idk), and exercise at least 3x a week. These are hard things to do, but it's honestly that simple. There's no magic formula.

I've lost around 30 kg and for the majority of it, I was motivated by disgust.

I hated how I looked in the mirror and felt people judged me (due to anxiety) and just wanted to get to a smaller size. But now my self-esteem has improved and I no longer am that bothered by what other people think. This is good from a MH perspective but it means from a weight loss perspective, I've lost my main motivation.

I don't like what I see in the mirror, but I'm also strangely comfortable. Telling myself "eat less you fat ****" doesn't have quite the same effect or appeal.

Does anyone have any advice on finding a positive basis for further weightloss ? I still have away to go but my loss has gone to a snail's pace :/

Bruv, i had tried it but nothing works

Believe me, you haven't. Losing weight relies on a long-term, permanent lifestyle change. Our bodies follow very simple physiology: we input food, we process it, and we output it. We can't control the middle step. We can control the other two. Input less food, output more, and you will lose weight. That is how weight loss works. This is how every obese person has ever lost weight. It's how every skinny person has ever gained weight. Kero has lost 30kg, I've gained 20kg. And then we've stayed at that weight. It's because we made permanent changes to our lifestyle. I gained even more than that, but I've lost a good stone again because I stopped going to the gym and stopped eating as much, but my lifestyle is still different from before. So I'm heavier.

You are at the weight you are right now because of how you eat currently, and how you exercise currently. You have to make a permanent change if you want to lose weight and keep it off.

but the changes i have made are permanent

You're not fat! Eat healthier and exercise more if you want, but don't become a twig.

Not really no. I mean I do feel quite happy when I lose another belt size but I have no real desire to lose more weight. I am sure I'll be ecstatic when I reach my ideal size (I am far bigger than I'd want to be) but I simply lack the desire to get there.

but the changes i have made are permanent

but the changes i have made are permanent