Many people ask me to help them find motivation, to be their motivation or how to get motivated. Here is the secret… NO ONE BUT YOU CAN BE YOUR MOTIVATION.  I was inspired by previous contestants on The Biggest Loser to but that alone did not get me through that first work out with Jillian or back on that ladder. The thought of my life amounting to 476lbs and that all that I had fought against and through yet not being alive long enough to make it worth it motivated me. You have to find your motivation, your IT factor. You have to decide what YOU want. Then GO FOR IT!

After you find your motivation, get a plan, get a buddy and get busy!  I have found that positive quotes or sayings can keep me going, pick me up and get me moving on the really slow or low days. Feel free to share your favorites here!!! Here are some of mine:
(Take a dry erase marker and write them on a mirror, or put them on an index card and hang in your car or office. Write it on your hand while you are on the treadmill)

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King Jr.
Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Maya Angelou
All great achievements require time. Maya Angelou
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely. – Anonymous
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy. – Bill Blackman
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind. – Bruce Lee
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill. – Anonymous
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. – John Heywood, sixteenth-century English poet
The best motivation always comes from within. – Michael Johnson
Don’t ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back. – Anonymous
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.  -Joshua J. Marine
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. – James 1:24, RSV