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  • Posts: 4,519 Member
    Being hungry
  • I would say the part I struggle with most is getting back into a workout routine. In the summer it was easy to hop out of bed at 6:00-6:30 in the morning to workout, but now that the weather is starting to cool (I'm located in NKY and we do not have cozy weather all year round) I'm finding it difficult to get out of the warm bed to workout. I have set my alarm to get up in time every day for the past week, but can't seem to overcome hitting the snooze button.

    If any of you have overcome this issue, how did you do it?
  • Posts: 433 Member

    That's good advice. For me sometimes it's more complicated. I'm not going to say my willpower is as great as it should be, I can definitely work on it. I guess I should have mentioned that my loss of motivation usually is a side effect of depression, which makes me not care at all and takes a lot for me to fight it. But then what you are saying does still apply, bc usually I can't just sit on my butt and wait for things to change, I have to help myself.

    That information sure sheds more light on the situation. I hear you completely, because not only are you battling weight loss, but depression as well. And both on their own, can absolutely take hold of people (I know of both examples controlling friends of mine).

    I won't act like an expert at all, because I've always been able to pull myself out of whatever would bring me down... my only advice here is to simply state this:

    "All problems that mankind may face are a product of their own minds. In understanding that we create all problems ourselves, we therefore understand we can destroy them."

    I'd take solace in knowing that whatever problems you may face, you've deep within your mind created the environment for it to exist to begin with. By taking control of that and throwing it back in its own face, you've just overcome your greatest fears!
  • Posts: 6,376 Member
    Stress. I do not handle it well, and I always get the urge to binge eat a bag of potato chips.
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