Eridio's Life

Motivation. We all know it, but not many of us know how to utilize it. Since my last blog about weight loss, I’ve gotten a question that I am more than happy answering. That question is how I stay motivated.

It’s taken me so long to figure out what keeps me motivated. It started out being the fact that I wanted to look “sexy” in terms of society labels. It went on to wanting to fit into clothes better. I changed the reason so many times but it never stuck. Why? Because they were all the wrong reasons.

When you start something you want to feel accomplished about, you can’t do it just because you want to. There’s always a reason behind it. With weight loss, people try using “thinspiration”. These pictures tend to look like this:

Thigh gaps and ribs showing...That’s not healthy. That’s what most of thinspiration is. You get told that looking like a skeleton is beautiful while having curves is repulsive.

I’m getting off track here. The main point of this is motivation, and what’s mine? I’m going to show you this picture, because this picture is my motivation

This here is me for the month of December. The reason why this is my motivation is because I don’t want this to be my body anymore. I want to feel great in my own skin. I want to be able to wear a bikini without fat spilling out the sides. I want to feel healthy. I have a skin condition that also gets worse when I sweat and move a lot. By losing weight, I can eliminate most of the pain it causes me.

Ultimately, your motivation should be for you. Not anyone else. That’s where most people go wrong. To stay motivated, keep your mind on YOU.

                298...That number right there is the highest I’ve ever been.

I guess I should explain what I’m talking about. 298 is the highest weight point in my life. Last year is when I reached that point. I’ve lost weight since then but it still haunts me. I don’t know how I could let my body get to that state.

I’ve always been an overweight human being. Even when I was younger. Whenever I wanted food, I was given it. My little child mind didn’t know the word “no” when it came to food. This is my before picture.

I believe it was 7th grade when it really got to me. I would always try and exercise profusely or just not eat. I knew it wasn’t healthy, but I wanted to be liked. I didn’t have that many friends. Nobody liked how I looked. I guess you could say I was the poster child for bullying.

Recently I’ve tried to get into healthy habits. Eating right and exercising. That’s how I’ve lost the weight I’ve lost this year. Somehow, it still isn’t enough. In my mind, I’m still fat. My clothes never fit me right and I’m always looking down at the blob that is my stomach.

That’s not what I wanted this article to be about, however. I just figured a little backstory would be good for it. This article is going to be about my journey through the years of my weight loss.

I’ve tried it all, believe me. All the diet fads you see nowadays don’t do much for you once you stop them. You gain the weight back quicker than you lost it. The best way I’ve found is to just watch what you eat and maintain an active life. Whether that be taking random walks or moving in some sort of way.

That’s what everyone says, right?

“Just exercise and eat right.”

Well, I hate to break it to you, but that’s how you have to do it. Going on certain diets and using weight loss supplements only work for so long. Eventually your body will become immune to it all. I like to go by one specific statement when I think of being healthy and losing weight:

You are what you eat.

This statement has rang true so many countless times for me. That’s why it’s taken me so long to actually start losing weight. I used to try every diet craze out there and nothing was working. Once I started watching what I ate and walking more, the weight just fell off. Above is where you can see me now.