Help. I can not motivate my self and my health depends on it

I am not sure were every one gets that you have low self confidence. It seems to me like you simply have problems keepin your self motivated. Right? Okay, here is a simple trick that has always worked for me: *Make pictures of yourself. Focus the camera on the parts of your body that you want to loose weight in. Like if its your tummy, pull that shirt up & snap a few pics of it. Now take all of those pics & hang em around the house. Be sure to put them on the cabinets & the fridge were your food is kept. (Stick them on the inside of the cabinet doors so everyone that comes in your house dont see them) *Now, find some pictures of what you want to look like. It can be a pic of a friend, celebrity or even your self. Maybe if you are trying to get down to your ideal weight that you use to be or if you have a photo shop program that would let you edit it. I have a friend who, instead of posting the pics of herself all around the house, put the pics of her "ideal self" up cause she didnt want people looking at her. Every time you dont want to exercise or want to eat loads of junk food, just look at that picture & imagine how great you will fell when you look like that! *Make a chart. Pick a day. Let's say you pick Saturday. Get a calander, a blank sheet of paper & a pencil. Your chart should have 4 collums: date (write down every saturday from that date on) Your goal weight for that date. (I recommend you target a weight loss of 2 pounds a week) Your actuall weight of the date. (Say on Saturday, April the 28, your goal weight was 200 pounds. Now on April 28th you weigh & write your real weight down.) Hit/Miss by (was you right on target of your goal weight? A little under or above? Record it here so that you can track your progress. *Set up a rewards program. Every single way in date that you hit your goal weight, you get a reward. Maybe a candy bar, a new pair of shoes, a long bath, what ever you want *Make a list of helpfull people. Include family, friends, online buddies, anyone that you can call when you just cant get motivated. I have alot more information that I wanted to share with you but I am getting tired of typing & my mind is drawing a blank. So, fell free to add me as a friend then send me a message & I will give you my email address. You can email me & I will give you a better list of "weight watch help" information. In case you are wondering, I have helped others loose weight. I use to have an online business & charged people to help them get motivated & loose weight. No, I dont want to charge you for it:) But I have alot of info that I think could help you out. Just let me know if you want more ideas. Also, if you are interested, I would be willing to help you set up your plan & keep motivated. Best of luck to you!

Well, to me it looked like you don't have confidence to yourself to be healthy. As a matter of fact,it was not your health that in trouble, but your lack of confidence is. I think you can start by doing your hobby, maybe enjoying music, cooking or whatever you like to do. Or meeting with people, join in community, you will be having much more confidence in yourself. And that will helping your health improved too.. Good luck.

Michael, I don't know if this would work or not, but it's worth a try, Maybe you are concentrating too much on yourself! IN reality,when you help others with their problems, such as yours for instance, you feel better about yourself! and this in itself will help your self-esteem,because I think that this is the stumbling block that you keep running into! I used to be like that, damning everything that was wrong in my life! Then I realized that there are other people that need help also, when I started helping others I started feeling good about myself, then things started going good for me, and it never ends, so now I go out of my way to help others, and I feel good about me, the things I do , the people I meet, I just feel great, and that helps me to heal my body!