All Entries in the "Motivation" Category
Small Town, Big Winners
I fell in love with this story. A tiny town in Oregon has started their own “Biggest Loser” campaign. Every Tuesday a lime cardboard sheet goes up in the only grocery store in the town with the name of the town’s biggest loser of the week. 20% of the town’s population is involved and together [...]
Top 10 excuses I use NOT to exercise
Ahhhhhh…..we tell ourselves daily why we SHOULDN’T exercise. Here are some excuses that have been (too) effective for me over the last few years:
Staying motivated and the ‘Fat Pants’
I don’t know about you, but I find this time of year a bit depressing. Christmas and all its fun and treats and parties are over, the new year has come…and past, our Vancouver weather is full of rain, rain and more rain…and the shine is starting to wear off my motivation. My energy level [...]
Weight Loss Motivation: The Story of Rocky, by Anthony Robbins
What is Motivation? A Video to Inspire Us. Happy New Year! If – like many of us – you have weight loss or fitness resolutions this year, congratulations! Now I know that some people poo-poo New Year’s resolutions but the GGS girls don’t. Yes, its better to try to have an all-around, long term healthy [...]
Why do YOU need to exercise?
We are so excited to welcome Debi Silber MS, RD, WHC – The Mojo Coach – as a featured contributor to Girlgetstrong! ~ Melanie There are many reasons to incorporate exercise into your life. But all of them may not have the same motivating power for you. Finding the benefits of exercise that mean the [...]
Running from my nasty little green and scaly bug-eyed devil
~ Melanie Yesterday, when I read Sian’s post about the self -sabotage one’s inner voice can do (“Are those my fat thighs in the mirror, Sian’s weekly weigh in“), I immediately thought of my own little green and scaly bug-eyed devil named Tiff. She’s my little – but loud – inner voice and I always [...]
Top 10 Things That Get Me Moving
~Abby, Fitsmi In general, I really like to exercise. Or, let me amend that: I really like having exercised. I like knowing there’s a diet coke with my name on it at the end of a long, sweaty bike ride. I like knowing I’ve done something good for myself. This is not to say that [...]
Time to ramp up the workouts – I mean start them
So I’ve been lazy all summer. I’ve eaten a lot, drank a lot (no, not that kind of drinking, mostly pop, which is a whole different post) and only worked out a bit. I found that this year, this summer, my motivation fell to an all time low. Not so much that I didn’t want [...]
Promises….
I want you ladies to print this out after you have filled in the last promise. Put it somewhere you will see it every day. I put mine with my vision board. I promise to try and let go of my insecurities. I’ll focus on positive images and thoughts —– for example, by remembering all [...]
A potato is to eat, not for the couch!
“Don’t be lazy – let’s be health crazy”, is what my daughter just said! It is so easy to sit on the couch and watch TV or work on the computer all day after we come home from work. It is so easy to make up excuses;why we can’t go to the gym or go for [...]
Inspiration for the weekend warrior
Because the Get Strong Girls live in Vancouver, on the “Wet” Coast, we test out a lot of rain gear. But today…today is sunny and it is warm. It’s the nicest running weather we’ve had since November. But me, I am at home. Not running. And since I can’t run today I will instead celebrate [...]
