Sort of a Poll - What is your support system?

carinna

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We all need people in our lives to support us in our endeavers, especially if it involves losing weight and getting fit. So my question is, who are your supports? Is it your Mom, your sister, spouse, best friend? Do you have a support system of co-workers that are taking this journey with you?

Indulge me.
 
In the beginning it was my Mom. Then, this forum and my Mom. As I have built momentum and people have noticed, I have lots of people rooting for me!

Other than this forum, however, and people I've met from it, I haven't had any real support from information or education...nobody I know knows how to do what I'm doing, I don't know anyone else who has been as successful as me, without surgery. Moral support is nice, but support, a kick in the ass, and reliable information is king!

Thank you, beloved forum!:luxlove:
 
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Almost same answer as Phate89

The me from 2 years ago, and the idea of getting a great workout and body is always appealing + excelling in everything I do ( I link the notion of fitness to success too in career as well )
 
My support system up until he left was my fiance who is also really into fitness. Before I met him he used to be a boxer and was working out hardcore and was in excellent shape. Then his last girlfriend kept telling him not to go to the gym and made him stay home while she played video games, and he got pretty out of shape. By the time I met him he was really upset he had let himself regress like that.

I had already hopped on the fitness train somewhat at that point, so it worked out really well. We've always pushed each other and encouraged each other. He started making healthy food for us to eat, we set up a small home gym for snowy days and such, and got stuff like mats, a bosu, etc to use at home. We go running together and we go to the gym together and take turns doing sets on the machines. Its great to cheer each other on and it doesn't hurt to know that we're making ourselves sexier for each other too ;)

Now that he's at the military my "support" is that he's working out hard down in bootcamp, and I wouldn't want to fall too far behind! :D I'm hoping to make good progress by the time he sees me again (which will be Christmas). He's pretty much guaranteed to make progress, boot camp is tough, so I have to make sure I do to. It will be great to see each other after so long and be proud of one another for working hard even while we're apart. Especially me, since I don't have a drill sergeant to yell at me, just my own motivation.
 
My support system is huge. From training partners, to people I work with, to coaches, to people on this and other forums, to the people I have competed against throughout my training career.

I have found that there is a need to seek out like minded people, smarter people, coaches, training partners in order to make the best progress.

To all the "do it yourself-ers" out there -

Part of the training experience is the people you meet, the experiences you have together, motivating each other, discussing training, and education. Even the bonding that is done when hanging out outside of training.

The relationships built are some of the best reasons for training.

The other thing I have noticed about training -

In order to stick with it for the long haul you have to love it. Sure there will be ups and downs in motivation, but if you love it, you will always come back to it.

That passion is what motivates us to learn and meet people who we can get help from as well as to help.

There are a million ways to learn. 999,992 of them involve people.

Anyhow, that is a basic look into my support system.
 
goergen1 said:
The other thing I have noticed about training -

In order to stick with it for the long haul you have to love it.
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That is so true. I've had friends who were so totally driven by wanting to lose weight and look good, but they haaated exercise. They'd get all excited, tell me "Oh yeah, we'll so stick with it, we're determined to get in shape!", buy new workout clothes and sneakers, talk about it for days ahead of time, finally go to the gym a few times, then just break down and cry about how hard they'd worked that week and how they had no results and it wasn't worth it. I dragged them with me a few times but in the end they just sat around while I worked out, complaining about how fat they were and how the gym wasn't worth the effort, and couldn't they just take a simple diet pill. They were such downers I stopped taking them. Sigh.
 
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