Fitness Friday - How Can I Motivate Myself To Exercise?

These past one year, my diet has been up and down. In July 2013, I made a conscious effort to change my lifestyle and I was very successful. I went from a size 26 down to a size 14/16 in six months. From then onwards, things started going downhill. During that six months, I did not consult anyone and simply changed my diet and exercised almost everyday. You can read all about my transformation story here.


It's a known fact that when you first start to diet, you loose the weight easily, but then afterwards you hit a plateau point and it takes extra efforts to lose the remaining weight. That was what happened to me, but I didn't know that then and so when I step on the scale and saw no change I get depressed. After a few weeks and still no change, I slowly became lax with my diet. Then when I noticed I've gained a bit of weight, I'll start dieting again. This sad cycle lasted for over a year and stopped just recently. Today I'm a solid size 16 and I've decided to change my approach and start all over again.

These past few weeks, I sat myself down and tried to decipher the problems. The scale is one of the things that demoralizes me and so for now, I chucked it behind my closet. I noticed that I let the scale determine my happiness, instead of how I actually feel.

The other thing I did was to embrace a healthy lifestyle. This means that instead of viewing exercise and diet as a means of loosing weight, I should see it as a way to fuel my body with nutritious meal and to keep my body in top shape.

After identifying these two major obstacles, I felt like a heavy boulder had been lifted off my chest and this motivated me to check out Pintrest for motivational quotes. As you can see in the picture above, I decided to write out my favorite quotes and then pinned it above my desk. Every morning, the first thing I do is go through these quotes and this actually motivates me to go workout. Also, during the day when I'm having cravings I simply look at these quotes and this keeps me focused.