I've been going through major stress with work lately, and some days the fact that I'm paying how much?! for my gym membership is the only thing that gets me to go in. But every time I go in, it helps; you nailed the bit about feeling badass. For me, every time I do my workout, it's spitting in the face of all those people who told me to hate my body when I was growing up. My weight has been level (and higher than I want) for a long time. But every time I prove that I can still put myself through a workout, that my body is still awesome enough to do that, it makes a lot of the other stress easier to manage.
I wonder, too, if what you're saying about the specific, measurable stuff from Weight Watchers might be applicable to some of the exercise stuff. For me, I set hard goals that I can just achieve - and then, when they stop being hard, I turn them up just a little. Failing wrecks my motivation, so I don't set unobtainable goals like "get to the gym every day", but I make sure I have goals that are tough-but-fair for me. It seems like we have similar motivation-patterns, so maybe that'd help you too.
I do hope it goes well for you. It's good to be badass. =)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: Wed, Jun. 20th, 2012 05:39 pm (UTC)I wonder, too, if what you're saying about the specific, measurable stuff from Weight Watchers might be applicable to some of the exercise stuff. For me, I set hard goals that I can just achieve - and then, when they stop being hard, I turn them up just a little. Failing wrecks my motivation, so I don't set unobtainable goals like "get to the gym every day", but I make sure I have goals that are tough-but-fair for me. It seems like we have similar motivation-patterns, so maybe that'd help you too.
I do hope it goes well for you. It's good to be badass. =)