What are the best ways to motivate an obese person to a lifestyle of fitness and healthy eating?
Stanley Pall asked:
We all heard of the saying, “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink it.” I believe there is a way to motivate the horse to drink. In this case, its a lifetyle of fitness and healthy eating which is conducive to a more healthy longer life. Therefore, I am looking for serious answers. Thanks.
We all heard of the saying, “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink it.” I believe there is a way to motivate the horse to drink. In this case, its a lifetyle of fitness and healthy eating which is conducive to a more healthy longer life. Therefore, I am looking for serious answers. Thanks.
It’s not your job or anyone else’s to motivate an obese person to live differently. It’s a personal choice that people make for themselves. Simply put, it’s none of your business.
Why would you feel the need to attempt to motivate an obese person to lose weight? It truly is none of your business.
You cannot change another person. You can only change yourself.
Unless you are perfect and that’s why you seek to “motivate” others?
Well maybe you can invite them to ur lifestyle and go excersisng with them and say it is a day to play and spend time together. You can also tell them how good they would look in something and then buy it for them and take it to them gym and make them run for it. I f that dosent work u can take them to eat in a healthy resteraunt and tell them ohh that u never knew that the food would be the way it is and tell them that they cant leave because of the reservations that you took time and patience to get. Or you can buy them some foodand tell them it was a mistake that they gave u the wrong order.
The only time this would be your business is if it were a SERIOUS health issue related to the weight, i.e. diabetes
Obesity is a complex personality issue. Bottom line is you *can’t* make a person do anything about it. The motivation for change has to come from within. Best you can do is stand by your friend with support and encouragement. I know it’s hard to watch someone live an unhealthy lifestyle, but until they decide for themselve to change, there’s really nothing you can do.
Look at it this way. Obesity is usually the result of depression or some other mental imbalance causing a person to choose unhealthy habits. You can’t choose healthy habits for another person, any more than you can choose happy feelings for them. We all feel our own feelings, think our own thoughts, and motivate ourselves to change or stay the same.
An obese person feels the urge to eat often because he/she feels as though it brings a moment of happiness. Sure being fat isn’t but a slice of cheesecake or a cookie certainly does. In order to motivate a person to eat healthier and choose a more activate lifestyle, you have to make it rewarding for that person to do so. This is not a quick diet and workout but a lifetime commitment and change of style.
One of the biggest factor you have to remember is that the obese person has been programmed to turn to food for many underlining issues. Some may be “I get a cookie/sweet when I am good.” “When I am bored and there’s nothing to do, I eat.” “I feel so empty inside, so unhappy, I might as well eat this cookie to make me happy.” You have to get ride of these old programming before the obese person has any chance of losing weight permanently.
Then you have to reprogram the person to enjoy food in a nutritional way and attach happiness to exercise and having fun. If the workout is no fun, why would a person want to coninue doing it? Maybe try tennis, skating, swimming or something fun.
And remember that it takes 30 days to make a habit of something. Good Luck.
I think that if you know this person you should be able to set the example, if you are fit and you work out and you can do all the things that this obease person needs to be doing meaning you eat healthy, you work out four times a week or more, then you will have more confidence in showing or motivating this person, you can lead a hourse to water but this horse may need to know how to drink, another thing to do would be to reaserch it, thats what I do, research motivating obease people, im sure there are plenty of information sites on this or books support groups you name it, i hope this helps,
To all the peeps that said it wasn’t any of your business to help motivate them.(That’s Bull S*it!!) especially if he/she is your friend. You Willl want to get them motivated as much as possible. Maybe take them walking on a nice afternoon. Instead of eating fast food bring on the healthy food. Give him/her compliments, tell him/her that they look great and make them feel good about themselves, a lot of times an over weight person wil see him/her self in the mirror and feel down. that will lead to over eating and lack of exercise. what they need is someone to just keep their heart rate up and also keep them motivated. Also if he/she is willing to start a diet program and you truly want to help that person, help them stick to it, but start out with losing 10lb’s first, once they see that it can be done, they will start feeling good about themselves and continue to work out. But don’t think that’s it,s none of your business…especially if that person is a good friend. I hope this helps. good luck to both you and your friend.
The best way to lead is by example.Show that person healthy ways to eat and show them healthy eating habits.Don’t try to force them to eat healthy or go to the gym,offer them a healthy meal and a trip to the gym with them.You have to help them establish healthy eating habits,not force them into it.
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I think it must be in that particualr person’s head. He/she must be conviced that’s the right thing to do, not as a temporary solution to lose weight, but as a new lifestyle. I got motivated to get healthy and fit because of ice skating. Whatever your motivation behing your goal, doesn’t matter, as long as it’s firm. You must want it for yourself, not for others.