Hi Nicola12,
I can’t take the credit for coming up with the WHY idea, but I was the one who started all the WHY discussions on the forum.
I saw an article on facebook by some guru who runs a business where he helps people succeed in making changes in their lives by focusing not on the change they make, but why, and one of the examples he gave was the difference in motivation between setting a target to loose 2 stone, and the motivation when you work out why you want to be 2 stone lighter.
I tried the idea of writing a letter for myself yesterday. Having reached my initial target weight its been really difficult to find motivation for continuing to get down to my target dress size. – I have the advantage of carrying animal feed sacks around at times, so I know what its like lugging around the amount of weight I have already lost. – When you have to use a wheel barrow to carry two sacks containing between them 4 kgs less than you have lost it brings home the difference. 🙂 –
My problem was working out the WHY for staying on the BSD to be lighter than I have been for the last 30 years. Which opens up all sorts of questions, on what I want in life.
Yesterday evening, thanks to something Alleycat mentioned on a different thread, I had the idea of grabbing my lap top and (because I can touch type) going through in my head what the conversation would be if I went to see a councillor to talk through my WHY. and typing it in. – That scenario meant I would be working with a clean slate, explaining the issue to someone who doesn’t have any knowledge of my background and interests, so I would have to start from the beginning. and I made a record of my explaination that I could look at again this morning. It was remarkedly effective.