Advice: A friendly advice from your friend / relative who tells you to loose weight
Threat: You are threated with the fact that if you dont reduce your weight, you will die 20 years early (I am putting this in lighter sense, but the doctor tells this to you in a different way, but effectively meaning this). He may say that you have a high cholesterol or have fat in liver etc
Knowledge: Reading repeatedly about the goodness in excercise and diet and badness in laziness and overeating
Self Motivation: Reading inspirational stories and writing motivational statements in post it and keeping it on mirrors to constantly remind you to loose weight.
Threat seems to be the best motivator. I remember what once my friend said: "You change when the pain of not changing is greater than the pain of changing"
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
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Threat places a major role in any decision making. In your case also doctor's threat is the motivation for your weight reduction process
"You change when the pain of not changing is greater than the pain of changing", impressed me a lot.
well...fear/threat might work for 90% of the people...but what about the fearless...like me...i think i am waiting for the time when the seats dont fit me anymore in the office/plane :-) ...but bring in texas, chairs are X-Large most of the time. I am glad that you stuck to a plan for long enugh to see the effect. I admire that in you. Me...its 3 days since th day i promised to start...just weighed myself..and did nothing else...
Or may be when I am unable to conceive a baby or when the baby comes and I hae no energy whatsoever to play with her may be i will consider it then...these are all knowledge/feelings gained from watching programs on TV...none my own feeling/thoughts...
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