What keeps YOU motivated?

Hey all! So we all have those moments - we get tempted by some sort of aromatic cooked food (or maybe a high fat raw food), or we get undercarbed, grumpy, and un-motivated (or at least I do sometimes!). Or maybe we're unmotivated to exercise (though I usually find I don't want to
exercise because I'm undercarbed). What do you do to stay 80/10/10? How do your motivate yourself to be fruity?

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Permalink Reply by Sydney on July 1, 2012 at 5:07am

I've always been really good about sticking to diet decisions I make; I'm not really sure what motivates me, per se. I just don't want to do anything else. I know I'm in the minority, and some food still smells good to me, but I don't really have trouble with that.

What I do have trouble with is exercise. A lot of times, I don't eat enough, or I just don't want to do it. I'm trying to find things to do that I actually enjoy doing, like biking, so hopefully I'll be more consistent. What motivates me to exercise, though, is the idea of being able to do things. Like pull-ups. Or rock climbing. Or aerial silks. Or ballet. Or anything I want. Not being limited is a HUGE motivator for me, and if I think about it, I'll most likely get out there and do something.

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Permalink Reply by CynthiaRV13 on July 1, 2012 at 6:56am

For me it's nearly the same of Sydney.

I'm pretty new to this lifestyle (have really read a lot about it in the last three months, but started 100% raw only this week). I've spent two weeks of almost raw and the times I ate cooked I felt terrible, specially the only time I ate wheat (it was a hccv pizza -which I love- and I felt so badly I coudn't sleep all night). Well, this is one thing that keeps me motivated :)

The others (not less important) are animals, environment, humans ;)

By the way, I'm not having much cravings, even if I eat with people that don't eat the way I do, so it's not that much difficult, at the moment.

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Permalink Reply by Macuilxochitl on July 1, 2012 at 7:00am

Papaya. When I got good papaya, cooked has no chance. Doesn't everybody have a fruit like that?

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Permalink Reply by CynthiaRV13 on July 1, 2012 at 7:03am

Ya. For me it's mango. But i'ts preatty expensive where I live :(

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Permalink Reply by InTheRaw on July 1, 2012 at 8:49am

Cantaloupe! Good Mexican papaya!

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Permalink Reply by Juliana on July 1, 2012 at 11:21am

fresh orange/ tangelo juice.... it makes nothing else tempting because you fill up so quickly and its not fiddly...

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Permalink Reply by Chris Califano on July 2, 2012 at 2:47am

Watermelon, peaches or persimons all the way baby.

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Permalink Reply by Eli on July 1, 2012 at 9:55am

I remind myself I'm having fun. You only live once, right? ;)

Who the heck needs motivation when it's fun!

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Permalink Reply by Esra on July 1, 2012 at 4:20pm

LIKE!

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Permalink Reply by Chris Califano on July 2, 2012 at 2:48am

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Permalink Reply by vegan witch Ⓥ on July 1, 2012 at 11:05am

i dont need to be motivated now as its a way of life - but in the early days all i had to do was look at a meat eaters body & face or smell their body odour to get a boot full of motivation - paleo (animal consumers) bodies are oozing with disease & toxic filth - when your low fat raw vegan you can smell them and identify sickness just by looking at someone.