What did you sacrifice to get your workouts in?

MinMin97 · January 2014

My life is too important to sacrifice anything. Unless sacrificing bad habits counts! I w/o very early in the morning, so I don't take time away from my family.

Sunitagt · January 2014

Leisure time and, for now, sleep. I have to get up at 07:30 every morning to get my walk in before work because I picked up a second job for a bit. And that second job means very reduced TV/video game time (about 2 hours a night for only 3 days a week, and none on the other 4). Would be longer, but I go to the gym those 3x days as well, and want to leave enough time for a full night's sleep on those days, since I don't get 8 hours the rest of the week.

But normally I don't have to sacrifice anything when I am only working 1x job. I have plenty of time for work, sleep, leisure and my walks and the gym, in addition to cooking.

kgeyser · January 2014

Sleep, time with family, household chores, and time for myself to just relax. Still trying to get the rest of the family to realize that if Mommy's working out, she's not _________ (doing your laundry, vacuuming, packing the lunches, cleaning the bathrooms, etc) and that they need to pitch in a little bit to make things run smoothly.

Phaedra2014 · January 2014

Nothing. Exercise is central to my life.

Ditto.

fat2skinny50 · January 2014

The fat around my waist and thighs :bigsmile: oh yea and my lunch hour

Future_Mrs_Philipp · January 2014

I really don't sacrifice anything... I workout six days a week... watch everything that I eat because I know once I hit my end goal I will be happier than I have ever been! I am ready to be that success story so I look forward to going to the gym and eating healthy!!

carlaj12 · January 2014

I sacrificed time with "friends" who were not really friends at all. I always invite these old "friends" to join me for a Yoga or Spin class instead of sitting in their kitchen complaining about what clothes don't fit and eat everything in the cupboard. If their response is to call me anorexic/bulemic and criticize my efforts to keep myself in shape at age 50, then so be it. I was 172 pounds at age 47 and 130 now, not turning back for no one.

PhearlessPhreaks · January 2014

Good question... I don't know. The extra money for my baby to join the daycare, or the time in the morning when I could get house cleaning and laundry done? Idk... I'm a SAHM, so I guess I don't really look at it as sacrificing something- I'm gaining some ME time!

lilRicki · January 2014

Reading, meditation

sunnyhlw77 · January 2014

TV and time with my husband.

bcf7683 · January 2014

Beer on work nights. I wake up at 4 am to workout and if I had beer the night before there would be no way I was waking up for a work out. This has actually helped me hit my macros easier though

This too! :drinker:

lynn1982 · January 2014

The fat around my waist and thighs :bigsmile:

This!!

But also sleep...glorious sleep...

capricorn2721 · January 2014

I sacrifice sleep.

TahoeSki · January 2014

Work. I don't allow my colleagues in different time zones to schedule meetings with me before 8AM so that I can work out. I don't think I've missed anything important yet!

SexKittenlovesitrough · January 2014

I thought about this for quite a while (30 seconds which in my mind is a very very long time) and I sacrificed not a damn thing.

for realz!

We do have to shift schedules around a bit since my partner and I must work out together (it's our connecting time) and we are both career individuals with busy schedules, plus there's a child in the mix to add to that...

but I didn't sacrifice sleep, I didn't sacrifice my career nor my life...in fact I've enhanced my life...

by the millions...

if I really sat down and thought hard about what I would probably be doing with my time was i not at the gym, I guess I would be watching TV which is funny, since I never turn on the TV. so sacrifice? not a chance.

not one bit.