There are three components to a person being over weight or not being able to keep weight off once they lose that weight.
Those components are:
- Food (what you eat)
- Exercise (how much you move)
- Motivation (what we call Life Success).
Now the thing is people think that they appear in that order. People think that what you eat matters first, how much you exercise matters second, and your motivation, if they even think about it, matters last. Most of the time people don’t even think about it. Actually, it’s the other way around. If you have a powerful “why”, if you know why you want to lose the weight, or why you ultimately want to keep the weight off, that’ll keep you focused. And that’s internal. Nobody can give that to you.
The temporary motivators are not good. The “I’m going on a cruise.” “I’ve got to lose weight for my family reunion.” Those types of temporary motivators will work, but they’ll work temporarily. So the motivation is what matters most. However, the determination is what is really the key. Motivation gives you that focus on why you want to lose but the determination to come against the motivation assassinators is what’s really going to keep you losing or have you keep the weight off.
