How do I stay motivated?

I was asked this question the other day by one of my Beachbody Peers who I coach:

"But honestly how do you stay motivated and how do you stay in control of your diet when your around so many people who are not eating healthy?"

She asked me this question because I emailed her information concerning the Team Beachbody Club and the Personalized Meal Plans.

This was my reply:

Hi,
Great question. And that can be answered with a simple phrase. I choose to become an Independent Team Beachbody Coach. Now I give into temptation at least once a week (cheat meal). It helps me to stay sane. :0) But I made my fitness, my health and my transformation an income opportunity.

Being an Independent Beachbody Coach provides me the motivation I need to push play and to eat well. If I want others to commit and get involved I first have to lead by example. Plus I used to be a Pharmaceutical Sales rep and it got to the point I HATED my job and was thinking about going back to school. I was a coach at this time but not heavily involved. I spoke with my now good friend, Traci Morrow, and she told me that coaches were quiting their full time jobs and being Beachbody Coaches full time (this was back in summer 2007 at Tony Horton's Fitness Camp) so if I wanted to go back to school, it was possible. So I committed to transforming my body because now my health and fitness had a dollar amount to it.

You said you have done other diets. For me Beachbody isn't a diet, it is a lifestyle. I am a coach, I earn my living by helping others get fit and get paid for getting involved. Does the gym, Weight Watchers, South Beach, Atkins, Jenny Craig or thousands of others reward you financially for losing weight, getting in shape and pointing others to the same system?

I have now been going back to school full time for a 2nd undergrad degree in Phys Ed for the last year and a half. I am a full time Independent Beachbody Coach. I have consistently weighed 180 lbs for the last 2 years. No more yo-yoing. And I have been smoke free for the last 3 years. Because I found my WHY for my fitness and I know my WHY for being a Independent Beachbody coach and how much my health and fitness is worth financially to me.

Being an Independent Team Beachbody coach provides me accountability with financial rewards. I see friends around town and they want to know what I do to get in shape. I point them to my site and they order the same program or a program based on their needs. I post my before and after pictures on Facebook and on Myspace the same thing happens. I hold fun fitness meetings and present the opportunity to people who are sick of being overweight and who are sick of not having enough money and I show them a system that if they plug into, they will start done a path to achieve what it is they desire most, if they truely desire it.

Let me ask you two questions: If there was one thing you could change about your life what would it be? If you were making an extra $500 a week what would you use that money for?

Remember that I'm a Beachbody customer just like you. The difference is I made a choice to find out more information about being an Independent Beachbody Coach. If you want to make that same choice, I can get you that information.

Talk to you soon and feel free to call with any questions,

Joey