How do you get motivated?

Try something outdoors, buy a bike and ride around the neighborhood to start for an example. Start a video blog about your journey and you can get followers that will hold you accountable week after week and look to you for motivation as you are looking to us for motivation. You dont have to start with exercise right away, start with your diet, eating healthier. Once you drop weight with your eating habits changed, that may motivate you to go even further and add exercise into that success.

I know its hard. I've been there. You have to dig deep. But only you can make yourself get up and do these things, no matter how much motivation you feel from others. Good luck!

I never do things (like running) that I know I do not enjoy. I incorporate some physical activity into my normal daily lifestyle. For instance, I park my car as far from the store entrance as I can and walk. On nice days I ride my bicycle to work or walk to work. I'm not going to run a marathon nor do I need to look like a body-builder, so why kill myself? My main activities are riding my bicycle and hiking. None of it is over strenuous and I enjoy both because I'm out in the fresh air seeing beautiful scenery.

As for weightloss and eating, I simply count calories and eat the foods I like. My weight loss has been steady and I'm in no big hurry to lose it. After all...I didn't gain it overnight...I won't lose it overnight. I try to enjoy THIS day as much as possible. I see no reason to risk spoiling what may be my last day.

Hope this helps.
Good luck.

I think of exercise as a requirement (not an option). What are other requirements in your life? You must eat food to live. You must drink water to keep your body hydrated. You must sleep to rest your body. You must shower to avoid stinking and keeping yourself clean. You must brush your teeth/floss to keep your teeth healthy. What happens if you stop any of these activities? You answer that. Fitness is not as obvious, but over time you become unheatlhy and overweight and start to have lots of medical issues that can simply be avoided by taking care of yourself. Many mornings I wake up and feel like staying nice and warm and not getting out of bed to go workout. However, on most days, I do it, because I think of it as a requirement vrs an option. You just gotta force yourself into a routine and like the Nike add.... just do it! Set goals and try to keep up and do a little bit more each week. Choose your hard.... do you want to be lazy and get even fatter and have to go through life with all kinds of medical problems as you continue to get older? Or do you want to get healthy, and force yourself to workout a little bit each day, and ultimately start feeling better. Once you get into the swing of things it's not that big of a deal. You'll feel so much better and your life will be more rewarding if you choose healthy life vrs an unhealthy one. I guess to answer your question.... knowing that I can avoid many health problems is my motivation. Now that I've lost the weight I feel so much better. I never want to go back to the way it was before. So... I just do it!

Pretty much my Dr. told me if I didn't get my **** together I was well on my way to being a statistic...motivation enough for me.

I have found this site if you keep logging in and a workout friend....keeps me motivated..

Not too intense, I love the Leslie Sansone Walking dvds.. you do them indoors so come rain or shine they can be done - you can do as many miles as you feel you can do.. I have started jogging on the spot to the 10 min ones to give me a little xtra .. just my two penneth !!

I can relate to being bored by straight exercise. I'd rather chop wood and carry water, so it is not like I want to live like a slug. Rather, I like work that matters. I was already walking our dog 2-3x daily, but I needed toning.

My solution--since there was not snow to shovel everyday was to committ to a very short workout time. I set the clock and when it went off I was done--no matter what. bathroom breaks, letting the cats out-in. I soon learned to stick with the exercising for that 20 minutes, because it did not last very long.

I started loosing weight (from dieting) and inches (from dieting & the little toning I was doing) which made me impatient to lose more. First I had to decide to double my workout time and figure out from what other part of the day I could transfer the time. You see, I still regarded exercise as self-centered low value-added time allotment. Half the solution was to purchase a rebounder(mini-trampoline) at a discounted $ and some 2lb wts, The other half of the solution was to transfer my 1hr evening news-editorial show to viewing it recorded the following morning.

Exercising dampened my am appetite and my waist started dumping inches along with better wkly wt loss. Besides, the exercise endorphins started kicking in midday (hours after exercising). I began looking forward to my next workout!???

Soon I was setting aside an hour--besides the recorded show with the commercials left in place was an hour anyway. I used the last 10 minutes of the hour for cool down stretch and some center core exercises.

I am getting myself deeper into this. but I am sticking to 60 minutes. I work the rebounding with intensity and greater weights now that I am stronger and have shortened it to 45 minutes, so that I could add 5 minutes to my floor workout. I am actively searching through You-tube looking for back fat, hip&leg, more core, arm, exercises that I will rotate through 6days a week, so I can keep it to 15 minutes

In sum, the first step in motvation was making exercising tolerable. The second step was positive results from efforts that pushed me to bump-up my exercise routine. The third was when the endorphins kicked-in. The fourth was loosing a quiet fear that exercise would take over my life--because Intensity and spacing out muscle groups is proving to be an effective way to manage exercise in an hour, 6 days a week.

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