At a loss.

I have to agree. Routine is so important for me. I work out right when I get home. Before dinner, before kids, before anything. Then I know it's done. I try to do 30-60 minutes depending on what's going on. I guess I just keep on going from work. Get up, get dressed, off to work, and come home and finish with working out...and then...I'm off for the whole night.

I know it's hard to stay motivated, but you can do it. On the days that get tough for me, I remember that I just bought new pants that are 2 sizes smaller. It gives me just enough to keep going. Or...find an exercise program that it fun to do. I'm currently doing Turbo Jam. I love it. It's fun, it's dancy, and it's short. That's key for me. In 35 minutes I burn 750+ calories.

Anyway, hope I helped! Keep it up

Its not always easy but you have to look at the long term gain. If you want to lose weight and get fitter there is a cost. Its not going to happen over night and its not always smooth sailing but if you put some effort in you will see results. No-one can do it for you. I walk 3 lunchtimes a week and sometimes I just really feel like I can't be bothered but once up and out of the office I quite enjoy it and it feels great afterwards.
My motivation has been me. I want to lose weight and get fitter. I have to do - so I am.
What keeps me going are the results. Today I wore trousers to work which I couldn't fit into 6 weeks ago and are a bit on the big size.

Gotta feel like you're worth it for your routine to be worth it.

I'll join the choir, it's not so much motivation as making a live style habit. You have to make eating a certain way and squeezing in daily exercise like you do brushing your teeth, taking a shower, styling your hair, or whatever it is you do each day because you like the result once it's done.

I think Gillian gives outstanding advice on this one. It seems to me that if you feel things overwhelming sense of "its not worth it" then you either don't appreciate how great the end results are, or you are a little intimidated by the size of the effort you feel you need to make. So try some baby steps..

It may be as simple as not changing your life at all at first and simply tracking it, looking for small and simple changes that might make a difference. It might then continue into you making simple changes, one step at a time..

And Gillian hits on a great first step.. I all but gave up Cola (though I did have two small ones on the weekend...the first ones in months) and I`m certain that it turbo charged my efforts..

Oh, the other thing that got me up exercising when I did't feel like it was entering a 14km (10 mile?) race. I wasn't fit enough at the time of entry, but had 8 weeks and people told me I could get fit enough in 8 weeks, at the very worst to walk it. Then becusae I'd paid money and told so many people about it I sort of had to follow through with it (this worked for me at least!) In the end I went from barely being able to run at all to running most of it and finishing in under 2 hours. I did the same thing with a novice triathlon this weekend. Agreed to do it months ago and then had to work out how I was going to do it! Ends up being great motivation.

an actual bike for cycling around places? or a standing still one? I bought my bike to get around ages ago and haven't looked back. I'm now looking at upgrading to a better one so I can do proper workouts, but cycling to and from work takes as much time as driving or catching public transport, and burns almost 500 calories for me! So i would say definitely get a bike, if you can find a way of working it into your everyday routine until you depend on it. (picking up groceries maybe? morning cycle for half an hour, evening for half an hour? I also think it's great to get out into the fresh air and sun so I may be biased )