I need the advice!

ShapenerFiterrati

I've been on MFP for a while now, and I haven't gone anywhere. Tbh I haven't worked properly. I never maintained a proper diet or a proper exercise plan.
My friends on my list might have realized I tend to go on and off a lot. Basically I've never really stuck to it.
But now I seriously want to jump on the train with everyone and some day have a success story of my own.

I'm currently 5"4', 167 lbs, and my goal is 125-130. At 135 I'm going to assess and see if I need to lose more weight or if I'm good by then.

My problem is that I can NEVER get myself to get my bottom off the chair, or couch, or whatever it is I'm doing and get up and work out. I can stop my self from eating, I can eat the right food, but I just can't get up to work out.
When I do workout, I love it. I enjoy it. It's just getting my butt of the chair that I can't seem to do!

I have all my Insanity workout set up and ready, I just need some advise on helping me start.
I'm hoping that my own motivation will help this time, but I'm honestly kind of scared of Insanity, of any work out program, and I'm not sure why.

So anyone who's been in this boat before, please give me a piece of advice. Also I really don't want any sarcastic or offensive comments right now, I've seen it happen before on posts. The last thing I need is sarcasm, I have enough of it at home.

Thank you everyone

saranne1015

my SO is my motivation, actually. maybe that's bad; i mean, i AM doing it for myself also, but he's definitely my primary motivation. he's a hot dude, and i want to be his hot girlfriend! he tells me all the time how beautiful he thinks i am, and all that, haha--but i don't really believe him in the shape i am now. so whenever i think that i should skip a workout and indulge in some donuts, i remember who i'm doing it for. doing it for someone else takes the pressure off me =]]] again, maybe this is bad, but i'm not a very good accountability partner for myself.

to really get amped up, i go online and look at before and after pictures of people who turned their fitness around. not those photoshopped, emaciated, mostly naked models all over the billboards, but real people who decided to take control of their lives. those really get me going.

but sometimes, even the above doesn't work, which is when i resort to his: i fully acknowledge that i have no willpower. i use this to get me out of the chair. i say to myself, "you never stick to anything. stick to SOMETHING, right now. stick to this." and off i go to zumba.

you can do it, dude!

Branstin

The bottom line is you have to want it bad enough and start building the habits to reach your goal. Bad habits are hard to break but they are breakable none the less. It also takes time to develop healthy habits. The best place to start is with the food and getting use to eating at a calorie deficiency and drinking enough water to keep yourself hydrated. Later add some exercises.

Pinkranger626

First of all, it's not that you can't. It's that you won't. I've found rewording stuff like that in my head can be enough motivation to get me moving. For some reason changing it to I won't makes it seem like it's my DECISION to skip my workout, rather than having it be something that's out of my hands. And in all reality, that's what it really is.

As for getting it done, on the days that I really don't feel like doing anything I take a scan of my body. Is it that I really need a rest day? or am I just feeling lazy? If I'm just being lazy then I tell my self that I only have to do 10 minutes. If after 10 minutes I still feel the same way, I can stop and try again tomorrow. To tell you the truth, I'd say 99.9% of the time I end up sticking to at least 30 minutes if not the whole workout. Don't think about Insanity as an hour, maybe think of getting through the first 10 minutes. I bet you'd surprise yourself.

TavistockToad

just do it... the only person who can motivate you to do anything is you...

or try standing in front of a full length mirror in your underwear... happy? no? go work out!

CharlotteAnneUK

Im with workoutgrl87 on this. Consider how you are looking at things, it is likely to be the cause as to why you have not yet reached your true potential.

Its not a diet, its a healthy eating plan, I cant have it because im on a diet.... HELL NO! If I cant have it, I want it. I can have anything I like, but does it fit the days diary? I managed 1200 cals yesterday and had a snickers bar & an icecream!

Its not a case of you cant do something, your just not ready. Two years ago I decided I wanted to try running, but there was no way I could run a full 3 miles (distance of the lake where I work).... But I could run part of it, then walk fast and get my breath back ready to run a little more.. Now I am training for a half marathon in December!

Im 5'4, I was around the 170 mark and aimed to get to the 160 mark. This year everything seems to have clicked, the healthy eating along with the regular exercise and now im 146.

Never give up... DICIPLINE is just choosing between what you want NOW and want you want MOST.