motivate me to exercise!

tastywhalebacon
tastywhalebacon Posts: 43
in Health and Weight Loss
I lack the motivation to get up and move, to get up and exercise. Help.
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  • waldo56
    waldo56 Posts: 1,861 Member
    Thin people exercise.

    Fat people sit on the couch and watch TV.

    Its not an activity, its a lifestyle.
  • nz_deevaa
    nz_deevaa Posts: 12,209 Member
    No.
  • MikeDaMotivator
    MikeDaMotivator Posts: 1,144
    I lack the motivation to get up and move, to get up and exercise. Help.

    If you dont get up and excercise you will gain weight and die a lonely death. Is that what you want? No? I didnt think so. Get your *kitten* up and get active!!:explode:
  • rompers16
    rompers16 Posts: 5,404 Member
    Unfortunately, you can only motivate yourself...if it's important to you, you'll find a way, if not, you'll find an excuse.
  • tastywhalebacon
    tastywhalebacon Posts: 43
    I lack the motivation to get up and move, to get up and exercise. Help.

    If you dont get up and excercise you will gain weight and die a lonely death. Is that what you want? No? I didnt think so. Get your *kitten* up and get active!!:explode:


    I don't wanna die a lonely death!
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,333 Member
    fake it till you makeit. go through the motions..and the motivation will follow. Like smiling or singing when you're down...your mood has to lift naturally.
  • cckellympls
    cckellympls Posts: 39 Member
    They say (I dont know who exactly) that it is 80% the way you eat and 20% exercise. Well....I lost some weight just eating healthy but when i got up and moved i saw my body changing and lost weight more quickly. Now i actually like to go to the gym and workout. It took me a long time to get there but i am so glad i got there. Only you can make the choice to move your body. It is worth it and so are you!!!
  • SetecAstronomy
    SetecAstronomy Posts: 470 Member
    I lack the motivation to get up and move, to get up and exercise. Help.
    To paraphrase my friend Willy...

    Exercise 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
  • Stephanie_Autry
    Stephanie_Autry Posts: 228 Member
    Thin people exercise.

    Fat people sit on the couch and watch TV.

    Its not an activity, its a lifestyle.

    I sit on the couch and watch TV all day... the only time I get up is to eat or exercise for 30-60min / day. :indifferent:
  • brittbonshor
    brittbonshor Posts: 42 Member
    my first reaction on this post was to say something like "don't bother - stay sedentary and make us all look skinnier by comparison!" but any type of bullying u to exorcize or reverse psychology is only going to associate guilt with exercise. the reason you're probably not excerpting is cause you feel like you "SHOULD" - at least i think that's what my issue is. If you can convince yourself that you enjoy it, then you're good to go. cause you'd be doing it cause you feel like it not cause you should. there's some good positive videos on youtube.. there's one chick that talks a lot about emotional eating and exercise and how it can impact your weight loss & lifestyle. if you search emotional eating you'll probably find her. she's a brunette....i can't remember her name right now. good luck.
  • EDesq
    EDesq Posts: 1,527 Member
    I lack the motivation to get up and move, to get up and exercise. Help.


    Tough!
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    Grab a heart rate monitor, put some of this on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9qvCTdBLDs and do some housework. Trust me with this song blasting you cant help but move. I got 250 cals done in 47 mins through this song..... and that was folding the washing & doing the dishes mostly lol.
  • megziejo
    megziejo Posts: 47 Member
    10 min. You can get up and move for 10 min. Just do a little. Stop and see how much better you feel. Do it again tomorrow. Motivation doesn't just happen it takes work.
  • Stephanie_Autry
    Stephanie_Autry Posts: 228 Member
    I lack the motivation to get up and move, to get up and exercise. Help.

    What made you join this site to in the first place? I'm sure it was to lose weight. Imagine yourself being thinner and more fit. A whole new closet full of new clothes- and more confidence when you step foot out of the house. You will have necks breaking just to get a second glimpse of your hot new body. Don't keep telling yourself " I'll do it tomorrow ". Do it today!!!! It's not a diet you're forming, it's a lifestyle!
  • jfan175
    jfan175 Posts: 812 Member
    Good Lord. Get off you *kitten* and get to work!
  • twiggylee1
    twiggylee1 Posts: 3
    Most of us, I think, have the same issue! But once we get up and do it, it makes us feel so much better, then we start to crave that exercising regime! Getting started is the worst part, like dieting. It's nice outside, get out and just start walking and work up from there!!
  • therighttrack
    therighttrack Posts: 96 Member
    Grab a heart rate monitor, put some of this on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9qvCTdBLDs and do some housework. Trust me with this song blasting you cant help but move. I got 250 cals done in 47 mins through this song..... and that was folding the washing & doing the dishes mostly lol.

    ...blast your speakers with WHATEVER kind of music that gets you feeling happy and wanting to dance! Pop a exercise video in, or go for a walk with the headphones! Either way you will feel great for doing it and happy cause `You love that song!!`
  • Aleluya17
    Aleluya17 Posts: 205 Member
    Download an awesome album or put one you own on an ipod, hit play. Go outside and keep moving until the album is over. Come home, shower, be proud you didn't spend all night growing roots on the couch. Only you can get you motivated. If you want it bad enough you'll do it. I don't really want to lay down quotes or anything to motivate you. I was at the gym this morning tired and in pain before I started. I looked down on my setup for deadlifts. My motivation? The bleeping bar won't lift itself. Then I picked it up. 15 times. Moral of the story, your fat isn't going to go away by itself. Don't get discouraged, just get out there and get it done.
  • EDesq
    EDesq Posts: 1,527 Member
    Thin people exercise.

    Fat people sit on the couch and watch TV.

    Its not an activity, its a lifestyle.


    WRONG!!!! Thin people BURN More Calories than they EAT! HEALTHY people do that< and EAT the RIGHT Foods with some type on regular ACTIVITY. That Activity don't have to be an exercise routine it could be: Walking your dog, Walking up steps at work/home, parking far away from your destination and walking the rest of the way, cleaning your house/apt., regular chores, doing a few calisthenics every hour as you get up from your desk! REMEMBER: What you eat is 90% of wt. loss and maintenance. If you try to keep up with people on MFP, relative to Exercise, You WILL fail at Wt. loss and maintenance! DO YOU, get your Eating Down First, then Slowly add in more Activity. You must do what is SUSTAINABLE for YOU or it is NOT a LIFESTYLE!.
  • Heather_Rider
    Heather_Rider Posts: 1,159 Member
    Unfortunately, you can only motivate yourself...if it's important to you, you'll find a way, if not, you'll find an excuse.

    THIS!
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    Why?
  • Heather_Rider
    Heather_Rider Posts: 1,159 Member
    THIS:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8s5G0nSvco
  • tinahatcher1
    tinahatcher1 Posts: 3
    I can tell you that at 50 I just decided not exercising has not helped me accomplish my weight loss goals, and I am getting flabbier every year. 4 weeks a go a friend invited me to a bootcamp. I have known people who do bootcamps,they are extreme fitness people. or so I thought. I found one that is in my neighborhood, affordable, and is offered in morning MWF, and Evening MTTHF, there is a social run on Wed nights. It is not as expensive as I thought ,and no one yells that I am not good enough or trying enough. I am over 100 pounds over weight, The coaches are good about modifying exercises so that I keep moving, and I am getting stronger, and leaner. I have not lost a lot of weight, but I feel better, my clothes fit better, and I am motivated to keep going.
    I am not a morning person, but my day starts of energetic if I exercise. I don't love exercising yet, I may never LOVE it. But I will tell you that although eating is a great way to change what you put in your body and lose weight, exercise is the way to sculpt your body and gain strength. Also...here is a big motivator!......the more you exercise and burn calories the more calories you can eat that day:) If I dont exercise I get 1300 calories a day, if I do exercise 1500 or more! I don't know about you, but I have never liked exercising alone. Find a group, or friend to be accountable to. It makes it more fun, and the time goes faster! but ultimately you do have to do it for you..walking or riding a bike, or doing a fitness video is better than nothing...

    good luck to you! I hope this helped motivate you.
  • sc0ttie
    sc0ttie Posts: 29
    You can only help those that are willing to help themselves. If you're not willing to help your self then there is nothing anyone else is going to say to change that.....
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    Grab a heart rate monitor, put some of this on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9qvCTdBLDs and do some housework. Trust me with this song blasting you cant help but move. I got 250 cals done in 47 mins through this song..... and that was folding the washing & doing the dishes mostly lol.

    ...blast your speakers with WHATEVER kind of music that gets you feeling happy and wanting to dance! Pop a exercise video in, or go for a walk with the headphones! Either way you will feel great for doing it and happy cause `You love that song!!`

    Exactly.

    Some music just gets you moving even when you don't think you have it in you. Moves like Jagger & the Daler one does it for me. Even just dancing around the house while doing housework is better than nothing. :)
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    Thin people exercise.

    Fat people sit on the couch and watch TV.

    Its not an activity, its a lifestyle.

    Wrong. I would exercise my *kitten* off , not watch any TV & was still fat. Now I can sit all day do nothing & am nowhere near the size I was. Thin ppl dont exercise..... check out my son. almost 6 foot & skinny like a rake... wont move from his room, wont come for a walk with me. Where is your point now?
  • Kierda
    Kierda Posts: 14 Member
    Either you do it, or you don't.

    Do you brush your teeth every day? Do you wipe your butt after using the bathroom? Do you put on clothes when you will be seen in public?

    Exercise because its what you do. You know you should. You know that it doesn't ultimately take *that* much time or effort to do *something* active. So just get it over with.

    ^^^ What I tell myself every day now. :smile:
  • eric5150ii
    eric5150ii Posts: 53 Member
    Remember, a person's bottom is semi-liquid, and without exercise it will spread and expand to fill the area you use to sit.
  • ASDavis72
    ASDavis72 Posts: 77 Member
    Truthfully you have to motivate yourself first, we can’t do it for you; it’s sort of like you can’t help a person who won’t help themselves. Don’t let being skinny be your main focus, instead think about being healthy and all your family and friends you’ll inspire to get healthy as well. I hope you find the motivation you need.
  • tastywhalebacon
    tastywhalebacon Posts: 43
    sooo many good reasons. I have been eating healthier and just by doing that, I've lost 23 lbs this year. Now i guess it's time to tone everything up, so I'm walking around with a bunch of loose skin. gross.

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