Motivation

When you've eaten too much and you can't write it down,

And you feel like the biggest failure in town.

When you want to give up just because you gave in,

and forget all about being healthy and thin.

So What! You went over your points a bit,

It's your next move that counts...So don't you quit!

It's a moment of truth, it's an attitude change.

It's learning the skills to get back in your range.

It's telling yourself, "You've done great up till now.

You can take on this challenge and beat it somehow."

It's part of your journey toward reaching your goal.

You're still gonna make it, just stay in control.

To stumble and fall is not a disgrace,

if you summon the will to get back in the race.

But, often the struggler's, when loosing their grip,

Just throw in the towel and continue to slip.

And learn too late when the damage is done,

that the race wasn't over...they still could have won.

Lifestyle change can be awkward and slow,

but facing each challenge will help you grow.

Success is failure turned inside out,

the silver tint in a cloud of doubt.

When you're pushing to the brink, just refuse to submit,

If you bite it, you write it....But don't you quit!

- Author Unknown

"Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try."
~unknown

Thanks for this poem.  I tagged it for those bad days. :)

Thats what it's here for!!!

Aha, thanks, I tagged it too =)        

veryyy inspiring :))

Its good to read on those OFF days

I like this I?m going to print & post up where I can see it.

Love it!  I actually found one that's kinda similar to this but about life in general...I like that this one's focused towards losing weight!!  Definitely a big help. :)

Thanks for this poem. This has been an "off week" for me, and it helps to see things like this to get me back up again!

Thank you so much for this...I could simply say that it's been an off week, however I think I need a place to vent why it's been off, so in addition to saying thanks, I'm letting off some steam...

I got a new job a few weeks ago and noticed I was eating a lot more, partially because my days are about 4 or 5 hours longer than they used to be. I used to get up at 8 or so now I get up at 4 and I used to go to be before 11 always and now I go to bed around 12.

Anyway with working ten hour days and commuting four hours per day to get to my job, I decided to track my eating to make sure I was only eating what i needed and to maybe promote a little weight loss.

I don't necessarily need to lose weight, but I do like myself better thinner. And in the back of my mind I think that the times when my boyfriend of almost two years is the most attracted to me is during the summer, when I'm running and eating less b/c of the heat.

So I start tracking my food and am really proud of myself...and then he being the ever thoughtful oaf he is, while flipping through a magazine starts commenting on the girls he sees...the magazine was a rap magazine so the girls range from super fit and thin, to very full figured.  It's not that he was talking about other girls that kills me, it's that he rarely says the same things about me...and it sort of hit me that secretly part of me was trying to diet so he would say those things about me...and then there he is looking at these women who are much larger then me and discussing how "yummy" they look. It's always such a blow to my self-esteem when he does this, and even though we talk about it he keeps doing it. and I realized that no matter what I did I may not change the way he thinks...so I reevaluated and decided that I still want to do this for me...

then I overate last weekend, and started of the new week, with more clearly defined goals (eat 100 calories less per day, and eat one piece of fruit mid afternoon, and eat one serving of veggies with dinner, just to get down below 2,000 cal-on average days without thinking just eating whatever I wanted I was eating about 2100 cal a day, as I hate to be hungry and don't need to lost the weight so a friend recommended I gradually reduce my calorie intake and let my apetite adjust slowly). then I did great until yesterday and was so hungry after work that I ate some suishi on the train, then I ate dinner, and then I had peanut butter cookies and milk, throwing my grand daily total to 2,600 cal Ouch!

anyway...so I'm just frustrated, discouraged, and feeling like I wish I had never started thinking about all this, because apparently it's going to be really hard, and not nearly as much fun as i thought.

bumping this.  Want to keep it on the first page...lol.  Wish my printer worked so I could post it on my fridge! :)

Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing!:)

im replying late but what a fab poem! im tagging it for those dreaded days!

bump bump bump!!!!

it was written about ME  :0)

ok, it was written about all of us who are struggling.

I'll remember:  'the race isn't over, it still could have been won'

that's the best piece of literature i've EVER READ.

I needed that!

Thank you

Chris, thanks, I needed that!

JJ :-) 

Great post .. thx for sharing. This isn`t just for diet condition, this is really2 a life motivation..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wow that was great! awesome motivator and pick-upper