doesn't matter how fast, any one can do it :)

LiftBigtoGetFit

jenniejengin

Papillon22

taliesyn_

This. I'm the slowest in the pool where I swim... but my half-mile is a half-mile more than everyone who doesn't show up.

peprwpr

This moto got me thru my first 5K yesterday!!

monmcb

Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??

sanjoparolas

Love it! I tend to take the slow but steady approach but as long as I'm making the effort I am making my health and fitness a priority.

LiftBigtoGetFit

Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??

no good answer for that, i struggle with motivation to exercise as well. motivation will be different for everyone. keep at it, the more you do the more motivated you will become. good luck to you

mdianne58

Thank you for posting that. I
will have to remember that when I don't feel like exercising.

scrapmor

I think the trick to keeping to your exercise program is to make it into a habit. Make it part of your routine. Once you do it for a few weeks it gets easier. But everyone slips up sometimes so when you "fall off the wagon", just keep trying. We're all a work in progress.

nikkiprickett

love it!

billsica

If you push the couch, they will always win

verapamil

Ran my first 5k today and this thought made me get through it. I may not have been fast (definately not fast) but I wasn't last and I wasn't at home sitting on my couch eating ice cream. It can only get better from here

kellicruz1978

Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??

I was just like you, I'd exercise for a week, then quit for 3. I kept with this pattern until I read a book and it explained that it takes 21 days to form a habit. So I set a goal of being consistent with exercise for 21 days....and haven't looked back since.

So give yourself 21 days, within those 21 days, workout at least 5 days a week. PLAN the workouts, write them on your calendar and do not let anything get in the way.

fernanda78

That motto goes with anything and everything. That's my train of thought..at this moment. Good job on the 5k

Tanyaclare

that is great !!

I ran my first 10miles today, last november I couln't even run 3 km so just remember that anything is possible x

MrsM1ggins

To motivate myself to exercise I sign up for things. I started small with a 5k and I'm now training for a triathlon. I know that I have to get out and train so I'm ready for it!

LiftBigtoGetFit

bump for a new day

Aperture_Science

I disagree:

EricNCSU

Yes sir!

giggles7706

Needed to see that this morning! Love it!

Sixalicious

:flowerforyou:

Sabresgal63

I love this~ Thanks for sharing.......:bigsmile:

pinkupooh

I love it too. Thanks so much for posting this. I used to think that 30 mins of walking or any slow kind of exercise is not going to help me if I don't control my diet with it. With that thinking, I wouldn't work out nor I would control my diet. I was SO WRONG....:(

Your post makes perfect sense.
THANKS!!!

davepotter

How true

sarahrbraun

Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??

try exercising just about every day for 3 weeks...by the time you finish the 3 weeks, it will be habit.

When I first started working out a few months ago, the first 2 weeks I went to the gym Monday thru Friday...then I cut down to m-w-f ( I was having endurance issues)

the last month or so I have been trying to go 4 times a week--Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. In the next few weeks, I need to pick Saturday up--my daughter is training for Cross Country.

Spokez70

Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??

Seeing the weight loss ticker moving to the right while I was eating more motivated me.

I also try to keep a big variety in my workouts- In the last couple weeks I have been hiking, biking, swimming, kayaking, and working in the yard in addition to the treadmill/weights program I started in January. Keeping it interesting and eating enough to actually have the energy to workout made all the difference for me anyway.

tialynn1

I so agree. My motivation at the beginning was I was determined to lose weight. I was determined to exercise every day. At the beginning I was afraid to miss a day of exercise because I don't want to lose track and not have one day go to 2, to next thing being weeks. Now, after 5 months, I don't feel right if I don't get exercise in every day.

kyle4jem

I disagree:

I want one of those... can you get them at IKEA?

Penelope2Plyr

Great post, thanks! I am taking my weight loss journey very slow, not because I necessarily want to, but because I was not totally committed evidently. I began Weight Watchers 21 months ago, and I have not missed but a couple of times going to my weekly meeting in those months. I am only at the 34 lb loss. That is ok though, I figure it means I have kept off what I was losing and as long as I do not give up, I will make it!

Now, I have a fire lite under me it seems, and I have been working out with a personal trainer doing strength and cardio 3x a week, so maybe soon, I will begin to lose a little faster and more consistently. Before I was not tracking everything, and now I am putting down every bite, lick and taste.

killernut

thank you for sharing Tim.

Also, Go Browns!