{"id":4095,"date":"2010-02-15T10:51:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T15:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2017-06-22T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:01:12","slug":"week-4-keep-on-keeping-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2010\/02\/15\/week-4-keep-on-keeping-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4: Keep on keeping on"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNever give up, never surrender!\u201d<\/p>\n

This should <\/em>be my motto for getting fit and healthy.\u00a0 Actions speak louder than words, though, and my actions usually say, \u201cNever give up . . . unless you just don\u2019t feel like trying today.\u00a0 Then it\u2019s okay to give up.\u201d\u00a0 What I need is a way to stay motivated, especially when I don\u2019t feel like giving my all.<\/p>\n

I looked for fitness motivation tips online<\/a>, and I found that a lot of sites all say the same thing.\u00a0 Don\u2019t do it alone.\u00a0 Keep goals realistic.\u00a0 Reward yourself.\u00a0 Have fun.\u00a0 I already knew those answers.\u00a0 I get bored with those answers.\u00a0 Sure, they work, but I need something unique to focus on.<\/p>\n

So I asked my friends.\u00a0 They had a couple ideas that I thought were wonderfully unique.<\/p>\n

One of my friends started a challenge group.\u00a0 A spin on the \u201cdon\u2019t do it alone\u201d concept, a challenge group pits people against each other in a competition to get fit.\u00a0 There\u2019s usually a fee to join, like the ante in poker.\u00a0 At the end of the challenge period, the winner takes home the prize.<\/p>\n

There is a big motivating factor here: money.\u00a0 A 2007 article in USA Today<\/a> reported that people who were motivated by weight loss were at least five times more likely to lose 5 percent of their body weight.\u00a0 The people in the study were motivated by $7 or $14 per pound lost.\u00a0 Imagine how much more motivation $50 or $100 could produce?<\/p>\n

Another friend of mine suggested making a collage of pictures, images and phrases that I thought were motivating and keeping it in the kitchen.\u00a0 This way, if I was looking for something to snack on, I could see the collage and choose something healthy.\u00a0 It\u2019s an interesting idea, and I think I might try it. This online article<\/a> should help me along the way.<\/p>\n

I think a good motivator for me will be to think of my family, especially my daughter.\u00a0 She\u2019s got the energy of a rocket, and she loves to explore the great outdoors.\u00a0 If I want to go hiking with her, I need to raise my energy level enough to keep up.\u00a0 I also think the idea of playing tennis again with my husband in the summer will keep me motivated.<\/p>\n

When all is said and done, I have to find ways to motivate myself from the inside, not just the outside.\u00a0 Keeping on track with my health depends on it.<\/p>\n

Next week: Facing difficulties and challenges<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNever give up, never surrender!\u201d This should be my motto for getting fit and healthy.\u00a0 Actions speak louder than words, though, and my actions usually say, \u201cNever give up . . . unless you just don\u2019t feel like trying today.\u00a0 Then it\u2019s okay to give up.\u201d\u00a0 What I need is a way to stay motivated, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[477,1400,883,1976,973],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-healthy","tag-meagan-ewton","tag-motivation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-143","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}