when clean eating is hard

I'm slowly, slowly losing weight. Probably a little TOO slowly, but I'm confident I can more easily keep it off if I lose it slowly. Problem is, though, that I have hit that part of my journey where I'm losing momentum, losing motivation, losing inspiration and just finding things altogether too hard. I haven't given up by any means. I know I just have to keep plodding along, but I'm just going through the motions half heartedly and I'm succumbing to temptation too much with my strong cravings for sugar and junk food. Why can't clean eating be easier? Why can't I love and crave whole foods all the time? Stupid sugar.

Anyway, my goal for now is to find some inspiration to reignite the fire within me to reach my health and fitness goals. I need to find something that can get me passionate about it all again. The gym date I have lined up with my personal trainer in less than a week might get me going!

motivation.....where is it?

I need motivation to lose weight. I can think of a tonne of reasons that I need to lose about 15kgs and technically they should be enough to get me going, but I just can't manage it. It's like the connection between my brain and body is malfunctioning.......

Lots of it, I know, is to do with the fact that watching my diet involves a lot of brain space and forward thinking and planning and I'm not sure there is enough room in my brain for all of that at the moment, so I resort back to old, more convenient and bad eating habits. 

If I could afford it, I would go back to Jenny Craig in a heart beat. I've been a couple of times and have achieved my goal weights both times due to having such a great consultant and the accountability of having to face up to her every week, and the food all planned out for me.

*sigh* I know I need to stop grumbling and just get on with it. But it feels SO hard.

How do you find the motivation when things just seem so hard?

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