Which helps more, motivation or drive? What's the difference between the two? How do I get driven rather than simply motivated? Some very tough questions but I think drive is a lot more helpful and works better than motivation alone.
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I hope your journey is driven and you're on track.
Stay strong.
Hmm. I don’t do my best thinking at night but I guess for me drive equates to my ultimate internal goal 🥅which I visualise much like a sprinter 🏃🏼♀️visualises passing through the finish line before anyone else. A single milestone/purpose/aim. Motivation for me is more like the external steps that get me to my goal, so recording what I am eating, anticipating what the scales ⚖️will read on Sunday, feeling the fullness that means I know I won’t be hungry 😋 till my next meal. These are my motivators that help me along but I am driven to be that slimmer woman at the end of the day 😌
Good reply Shepherdess.
I've found that with following lchf that neither play a particularly relevant part. I am now eating as much as my body wants of all my favourite foods (less the ones that had carbs in), always feel so full that I keep thinking I'm overeating. Yet each week I'm surprised to find that I've lost weight again.
I suppose it could be argued that I'm now motivated not to eat the carbs that always used to cause my unstoppable cravings 
Hi Tigerr, seems your passion and drive come from lchf as you keep at it all the time and recommend it as often as you can (which is why I'm looking into it at the mo).
Ooo eck! Sounds like I'm getting overly evangelical 
I do believe that everyone has their own path to follow and only trying to put my own perspective of my own journey. Each day and week I wait for this journey to go South but it hasn't yet
Good luck!
Lol not at all. We all want to be supportive and when we find something that works really well for us and think it could help others in the same way, of course we're going to give it a shout out! I know I would! And have done! Here's to staying north, not going south.
Thank you for the interesting blog. I had not thought about the difference between motivation & drive before, & the idea that motivation starts change while drive sustains the change. I have been thinking about a family member who has also been on a weight loss journey over same 9 months as me. My relation ‘tries’ not to eat cake, isn’t supposed to eat cake, isn’t allowed to eat cake, eats cake as a ‘treat’. I don’t eat cake, full stop. I am not ‘trying’ not to eat it. I just don’t. I am now noticeably thinner, my relation is still very fat with no visible change. And she’s pretty annoyed about this -more that I’ve been successful than she hasn’t. I’ve been trying to put my finger on what is different about our approach & mindset. I am going to add some more D words - they come from a professional dressage rider I know:
Dedication
Determination
Discipline
Drive
I think they apply equally to weight loss & getting fit as professional sport. Dedication is about putting in the mental focus and the time - it’s taken extra time trying new recipes, planning my food, participating in HU, making time to exercise. Determination is about how much we want this & the steel in our marrow to make changes - I have never been so determined. Discipline has also helped me - I have eaten no sugar & very limited carbs for 7 weeks & this has become ‘normal’, a habit, but also it has removed my taste for sugar. Under low carb high fat we are rebalancing our metabolic hormones to control our appetite. I knew that if I fell off the wagon in the first month or so, my hormones would be back at the start. This was a very powerful motivator for being disciplined. I need a lot less discipline now, because my eating has become a habit & my insulin is under control. Drive is the thing that gives me momentum, keeps me going, when the scales don’t move, there’s no low carb food handy, & when I am rather sick of eating cauliflower every day. Now my eating is in the right place, I need to apply the 4 ads to exercise - I have been very unwell with a chest infection & need to gradually build my fitness up. I also need to improve my body strength, & it’s going to take the 4 Ds to do weights again.
Hi s4g, that's a great piece of advice and I shall certainly be adding those 4 Ds to my journal or hacks and tips I have next to my bed. I certainly agree with them all, but especially discipline. That's something I hadn't thought about much but now I think I'm going to start thinking about it a lot more, as well as the other three Ds. Thanks again!
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