I’m interested in what you have found as your successful long term motivation when making healthy lifestyle changes. I’m particularly interested in experience from those that made long term changes (5 years maybe longer?). What was the factor that made you make the change in the first place and how did you maintain it over the long term? Was there a health scare for you or a family member? Was the payoff from the change so good that keeping it up was easy?
I’ve been slipping into progressively worse habits over the past few years and while I don’t smoke at all or drink alcohol to excess, I’m not living the healthy lifestyle I did when I was younger. Because I’m not yet experiencing the negative consequences (except from some pain from weak joints that have to be kept strong due to prior sport injuries) I’ve not had much motivation for change, especially in the long term, but I know it is better to make changes now rather than later when it will be harder. I’ve heard a lot about habits being helpful but I find that I still need to find more motivation. Any experiences would be greatly hear about to make me understand more.
I’ve been slipping into progressively worse habits over the past few years and while I don’t smoke at all or drink alcohol to excess, I’m not living the healthy lifestyle I did when I was younger. Because I’m not yet experiencing the negative consequences (except from some pain from weak joints that have to be kept strong due to prior sport injuries) I’ve not had much motivation for change, especially in the long term, but I know it is better to make changes now rather than later when it will be harder. I’ve heard a lot about habits being helpful but I find that I still need to find more motivation. Any experiences would be greatly hear about to make me understand more.