I HATE exercise

wooder1958

I am way older than you but hatred of exercise is a universal thing. Personally I would rather sit on the couch and drink a glass of wine while watching my trashy reality shows but of course, that is why I've ended up here. If you hate exercise (like I do) but realize you must do something....I got a DVD by Leslie Sansone called Walk at Home and Burn Body Fat, which gives you the option of a 1, 2 or 3 mile walk. Now the more exercise savvy people on here may snicker at this suggestion but I will tell you, the 1 mile work out is 15 (yes, 15!) minutes and it is a good little workout. The 2 mile kicks my butt. I do the 1 mile workout followed by Leslie Sansone's You Can Do Pilates, which is roughly another 15 mins. That's 30 mins out of your day. I do the 2 workouts in the morning and it gives me energy throughout the day. Also, the Pilates will firm up areas like your abs and rear. The DVDs are inexpensive and can be found on Amazon or I've even seen them at Target. You will need 2 pound weights for the burn body fat one.

penrbrown

The problem isn't that you hate exercise. The problem is you haven't found an exercise you like yet.

I used to think I hated exercise too until I found things that I actively enjoyed doing.

So, keep searching, keep trying. You'll find an activity you enjoy.

Also, exercise doesn't HAVE TO BE STRUCTURED. As long as you're off your *kitten* and moving you're doing your body good. Anything that doesn't involve a couch is probably good for you. Even if you don't have a routine in place around it.

Darlingir

All I can say then is that you have to hate being overweight more than you hate exercise so that you'll do it.

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iplayoutside19

Honstley, if your job is as active as you describe it. You don't have a sedientary lifesyle. To me you don't need to work out. Eating right is fine. .

Darlingir

I personally have gotten addicted to how I feel after I'm done exercising . I need it now....

Geminieve24

I don't see why I can't just restrict calories. It's not like I spend every day lazing around.
I'm totally ok with never having to run a marathon. Chances are I can lift A LOT more than most females

You might be able to do that now...but I have to tell you the older you get you have to rely more on just counting calories. Your metabolism gets slower and you have to get your heart rate up to burn calories. You may be active now...just wait until you have kids or switch to a desk job.
There are so many benefits to exercising besides for just weight loss. Also, when you do get to your goal weight, how were you planning to keep it off? All the fit people I know make exercise part of their life; to stay that way. Otherwise the weight will creep back up.
But find something you love. Do you like yoga? Dancing? Can you hike a few times a week?

agleckle

All I can say then is that you have to hate being overweight more than you hate exercise so that you'll do it.

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I agree. To be blunt, it sounds like you have already made up your mind that you don't plan on trying to find a way to exercise and you are just trying to get other people to validate what you are saying... because you are just shooting down every one else's suggestions for things to do for exercise with reasons why it wouldnt work. If you really wanted to exercise, you would make time and would stop complaining about your hair.

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Saruman_w

You get used to it. I used to hate exercise as well and try for any excuse not to go workout. Now.. I hate it whenever I CAN'T exercise.

monkeygirl351

I was a vet tech for close to 15 years and yeah it is a work out! I stayed skinny for a long time, but my bad eating habits ie missing lunch because we were too busy, and eating fast food for dinner finally caught up to me. Even though I was still doing that job, my weight slowly crept up, maybe a pound here or there but it did. Now I have a desk job, so my weight crept up even more. Now I am determined to lose the 30 pounds i've gained and get healthy again. I'm only 33 yo, but man I'm realizing how hard that job was on me. I have arthritis in both knees, a bad lower back, (from lifting more than I should have on my own because we were too busy), plus I have a bad right shoulder from a horseback riding accident that continued to get aggravated as a vet tech. I have to be careful with my exercises that I do to not worsen anything, but I do it cause I know I will be better in the end. I've realized running isn't for me, but I love using the elliptical or powerwalk on the treadmill with inclines. I walk my dog everyday as well, but since he is older, we don't go that fast. So I guess in the end you can try the calorie deficit and that should work, but make sure to not miss meals like I did cause it will mess up your metabolism and you'll gain weight even in the active job. Oh and be careful lifting those doggies! Back injuries never completely go away. I even remember the dog I lifted that injured mine, a huge chocolate lab named Beast and he certainly was a beast!

Nopedotjpeg

Nobody said you have to just go to a gym. Just find something worthwhile that you can get into and just do it.

LynC33

Rest easy. Weightloss is 70% food....the rest is exercise. If you eat right, you shouldnt have to slog it out at the gym. 30 mins of walking a day is enough, but if you want to tone up etc......then thats different.

Kugara_fit

It's ironic that I came across this topic- I just read a book saying, "No one has the time to run if he or she doesn't want to find it. If you want to run, you make the time and stick to it."

You want to lose weight, but don't like gyms because of the time it takes, the process and possibly the time either early or late you would have to go to do it. You seem to walk dogs alot and like to go outdoors, and are interested in trying to do calorie restriction to lose weight.

Calorie restriction is great, if done properly and weight loss can be even better if you do some sort of exercise. Walking outdoors at night can't hurt- just do 30 minutes several days a week and put it on your calender so you will remember and then- do it. If you choose to go to a gym, you may opt for that dry shampoo, DO and a bunch of body wipes if you hate showering afterwards so much. If you hate treadmills, don't use them. I don't like them either, I prefer jogging outside and it does wonders for me.

If you want to restrict calories, I would stop focusing on the number of pounds you want to lose, and just focus for now on eating healthy. A lot of people worry about the number on the scale, and not how they feel. You don't have to go cold turkey, and give up the cake or something. Just eat more veggetables and fruit, cut back on saturated fat, eat whole grains. Focus on being positive and the weight will come off.

Simply committing to walking consistantly outdoors several days a week, eating healthy options for now will do the trick. Exercise is not murder, there are ways to have fun with it, just experiment with it and maybe it won't be that bad. A lot of people do Zumba late at night and that feels great.

I apologize if I sound curt, but validating why you hate exercise is NOT going to make you lose weight. And I don't want you to try some crazy diet or ... a diet at all since it will only discourage you and you will like everyone else, give up.