HELP!!!! Have lost my excercise MOJO :(

I think I can understand what you are feeling. The worst enemy of all is to lose your motivation. I had the same problem for many years, but now I feel better about that. I can tell you what I did to have full motivation; I looked at the mirror and talked to myself... I was even using bad words ) I was also wearing a t-shirt that I love the most which I was not able to wear because of my size. The t-shirt was tight and not comfortable at all. My stomach was round and looking ugly... then I asked my self; is this what you like? is this the best you can do? what is your problem? you wanna die because of heart attack and leave the loved ones alone? are you stupid or what? well, it worked for me I said to myself, no matter what I have to go to gym, even for half an hour cardio... this was 4 months ago, and except 3-4 times (because I was on vacation), I never missed it. even though I was dead tired, I continued excercising. well my friend, I have lost almost 60 pounds (26.5 kilos) and very happy with my body. I can wear my favorite t-shirt again if I can do it, you can do it, trust me 3 times exercise per week is good enough. If you try to go more and push yourself, you might get tired of it. discipline yourself and go to the gym. do not buy any exercise machine to your home, that is the worst you can do to yourself. simply move your butt and go to the fitness center, do your work out and come back home... good luck!

I'm going through the exact same thing at the moment. I've not been feeling well for the past 2 weeks, but I'm sure I could still exercise if I really wanted to. I feel like I'm using it as an excuse to be lazy and I'm getting really frustrated with myself. I don't have advice personally, but I recently asked a friend about it since he's lost a lot of weight and he basically said it happened to him at one point, and then he just woke up one day with more motivation and is now working out harder than ever. I'm eating as well as I always do, so thankfully that isn't an issue. My idea for myself was to maybe change up the exercise and do something new and fun. I feel you though. I'm currently trying to psych myself up to exercise later.

Good luck, I know you can get back into it!

I was also suffering from same problem i.e. absence of moral support / frequent motivation lately. I started to visit MFP on regular basis in last few weeks and gone through all the success stories mentioned over threads and motivated myself as if so many peoples can, why not me ? Peoples here on MFP are great supporter, moreover I got a quite a few MFP friends here, always supporting & motivating me.

I hear ya. My job has seriously got in the way this last couple of weeks, and now the pressure is finally off its hard to find the motivation to restart.

I'm just trying to remember how good I felt excerising

I hear ya. My job has seriously got in the way this last couple of weeks, and now the pressure is finally off its hard to find the motivation to restart.

I'm just trying to remember how good I felt excerising

Going through the same thing right now and it has been a month. Needing to find some motivation and I think I need to change up my exercise from jogging to adding in more weights.

That's my biggest problem, is keeping my MOJO up LOL. Right now, since I'm really just starting into watching what I eat, and working out again, and I have a lot more to lose...

I try to remember, and keep it actively in my mind, about when I first had to lose weight 11-12 years ago. I had lost 30lbs in 6 weeks, and before then, I had never been able to keep motivated long enough to see results, or even lose half my weight. But, all I knew is I was sick of looking in the mirror and not liking what I would see. All I did, was count calories and work out. Nothing major. I tried to stick to between 1200-1500 calories, and ate whatever I wanted as long as I did that. I drank TONS of water, which not only helped A LOT, but my skin look amazingly clear for the first time in my life.

Also, I started small when it came to adding in exercise. Since I was in my teens, and lived in the middle of nowhere, all I could do was walk or bike. So, every morning I'd go for a 45 minute walk. I might take another walk in the evening for roughly the same amount of time. I remember at one point, I was able to get my hands on work out videos for my arms, legs, and abs. So, I gradually started adding them into my daily routine. Once I added those, I was shrinking relatively fast. I was surprised since it really didn't seem like I was doing too much.

Hopefully, my story will motivate you. I recall it every day just to remember what I did last time. What also helped was keeping weekly goals, and just trying to stick to those weekly goals and not looking at "the bigger picture." So, I have 60lbs to lose... yikes! But, if I focus on losing X-amount of pounds a week, and eating X-amount of calories a day, and including X-amount of exercise.. I'll meet my weekly goal every week, and it makes that "bigger picture" look a lot better every week.

Honestly, you have an active job... it's not a huge deal. Just eat less.

I am struggling right there with you. This has been so depressing for me and every day that goes by it just gets worse and worse, any motivation or support I can get would be appreciated.