How to overcome laziness?

Stop using 'Im lazy' as an excuse. Its not like laziness is a disease that you have no control over. Replace 'I'm Lazy' with 'I Will' and just get up and do it.

You think I want to get up at 4.30am to go to the gym? I work 50hrs a week and have a 3 year old. Believe me I don't wat to but 'I will' do it as 'I will' get the results I want. 'I will' fit training into my schedule even if it is at @rse o'clock in the morning, 'I will' make healthy food choices as 'I will' be here for my family and 'I will' live the best life I can.

Honestly no one can change your mindset, no one can do this for you. Its all about you. Your guts, determination, drive, ambition and ultimate sucess. If your 'lazy' you just don't want it bad enough.

Not meaning to be rude, this is just how it is.

OP, This is from one of your previous posts regarding your "medical school":
"It's a second quarter, out of 9. It's a college program to get certificate and then for diploma. "



Med school is not a certificate/diploma program. Medical school is graduate education that is undertaken once you've received a bachelor's degree. I believe that what you're doing is "Medical Office Assistant" program. That's not anything close to "Med School" and you are not a "Med Student." Unless you're some type of Doogie Houser, you've not completed 4 years of college and been accepted to med school.

Excuse me??? Not call myself med.student???? Shots, blood, crap testing, allergy testings, 9 certificates and licenses and that's nothing?
Screw you!!!

It's a total of 2-3 years of education. So go away!

Yes, it is. It is Medical Office Assisting. Med school is typically reserved for medical students -- students who are studying to be Medical Doctors (M.D.s).

THE HELL???

It's CLINICAL MEDICAL ASSISTANT. Buuuurn you just failed.

SAME THING as nurse except no wiping crap from patients and not removing sutures!!!And of course not as many certificates.

OP, interesting article about difference between nurse & medical assistant..
http://medicine-careers.blogspot.com/2012/03/difference-between-nurse-and-medical.html

"As a medical assistant, duties range from administrative work (filing medical records, keeping track of patients and helping with office duties) to clinical work, if you are a registered clinical medical assistant. Clinical medical assistants help with checking patients' vital signs and recording initial symptoms and issues patients are experiencing. Some medical assistants also help with collecting and sending lab samples in order to help with diagnosing patients."

"Medical assistants take on the clerical duties in healthcare. They are in charge of organizing documents, scheduling appointments, and making sure that patients get to where they need to be. Some medical assistants will check vital signs like a nurse would, but they mainly do the secretarial tasks in their place of work. Nurses write down the documents that medical assistants file away. That is an easy way to remember the difference between the two workers. Don't let the term "assistant" fool you. Medical assistants don't do much with regards to patient care."

"A medical assistant does not necessarily have to have an education related to the medical field. As long as he or she has a business administration background and some knowledge of medical terminology, he or she can get a job. Nurses have to go to school specifically for nursing. They cannot stray from a medically based education."

http://www.ehow.com/info_8719996_medical-assistants-vs-nurses.html#ixzz2hrqTNKsg

Laziness and excuses are what puts you in the position you're in. I don't think anything anybody says on here will help because you don't have the motivation to change yourself. I don't like waking up early and exercising but I do it anyways because I want the results.

Just get up and exercise, be active and stop complaining until after you've actually done something worthy of complaining about.

My main exercise available to me is also an elliptical, and I have had problems with laziness.

A quick question, do you like watching TV while doing your elliptical? It's actually the only way I use my elliptical.

Do you have TLC (The Learning Channel)? Otherwise are you able to setup a laptop or tablet within view of your elliptical? If either of those cases are yes, I highly suggest you try watching Brookhaven Obesity Clinic (there are episodes on YouTube - sucky quality but still works). I discovered that I could literally not watch that show and not exercise, even if I was just walking with a low resistance on my elliptical. Maybe you can find something that does the same for you if that particular series doesn't motivate you?

Once I started moving it was much easier to keep going. Now I start an episode of whatever I enjoy watching at the moment (Bones, Heroes, etc.) on Netflix instant play. I no longer have to specifically watch Brookhaven to get me started.

Good luck.

I really to hate stating "excuses" but I can't do anything extra. Weekdays I go to college really early in the morning, then I babysit and sleep. So the only exercise I can do is elliptical. It's the whole laziness thing..."oh gosh, elliptical, noooooo"

When you babysit, are you actively engaged with the kids, or are you just hanging out at the house while the kids sleep til the parents get home? If it's the former, are they old enough that you can play in the yard or hang out at a playground and be a bit more active with them? If it's the latter, how about yoga stretches or calisthenics or something that doesn't require equipment?

People - don't bother continuing to reply. Original OP already deactivated her account.

Thank you all for suggestions, I will take it in consideration.

I don't have friends, no support, no hang out time, I'm a lonely wolf, well I call myself that. The only hang out is with my boyfriend, and he is ok with me not improving myself(and no he isn't fat or anything, he is a future marine).

I was thinking of joining military but again, weight is the problem. I'm too big for military.

Getting good amount of sleep is impossible most of the days. I'm a medical student that spends half a day in school, and when I babysit I study, I get to bed around 12-1 and wake-up around 6.30. Saturday is my sleep-in day because on Sunday I go to work.

After being on here I realized that weigh-wise my problem isn't WHAT I eat but HOW much I eat...and life-wise, I'm ridiculously lazy. I always "see" my success in my head but never get to it...

What about volunteering? Or doing something like AmeriCorps? Or disaster relief or something?

My dad always says to his music students "While you're waiting for motivation to strike, do some practice."

It sounds silly but I am extremely lazy and I use this all the time. How do I get motivated? I kind of don't. I'm not fist pumping yelling "YEAH LET'S WORK OUT! WOOOO!" I just make myself do it. It's really not that hard to get up and do something. Motivation (for me, I can't speak for anyone else) really has little to do with it and is just something I use as an excuse not to do something.