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Low motivation today

cbevan1229
Posts: 326 Member
I wound up working late and didn't get home until 8:30. Picked up our weekly pizza on the way home, and I was quite hungry, so I ate as soon as I got back to the house. Getting home so late, I missed my normal exercise time (usually right after work and before dinner), and I can't find any motivation to do it now, especially since I already have a full belly. Without the exercise calories, I'm about 122 calories over my goal for the day. I can't really even work up the energy to be worried about it.
bleh.
bleh.
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122 calories isn't awful, so I wouldn't fret about it too much as long as it's not a daily occurrence. I went over my goal today as well, but it's only once a week that I do this...other days I have a surplus of ~200 calories, so I feel like I can have at least one day to give a little. It's kind of like my 'rest' day from strict eating...but I stay on it the rest of the week.0
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I also ate dinner before doing any exercise tonight. I didn't eat bad, but I kinda ate a lot, and now I have that full feeling too. Good thing it's only 7:35 here.
Maybe do some low intensity exercises. Stretch, pop in a yoga video, do crunches. Even if you just do like 10 squats, 10 lunges (each leg), 20 crunches, 5 push ups. Then do that like 2 or 3 times. It's not SUPER exhausting or anything, but it's SOMETHING. You can do that in just a few minutes right before bed.
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Don't beat yourself up about it. It's hard to plan those things all the time, but for an 'oops' you didn't do bad at all. What if you worked out a little more tomorrow?0
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If you're set at a 500 cal deficit then you are still at a 378 calorie deficit so you won't gain.0
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