Too busy to Work out

I work out at home on youtube. There are some really good channels, one I use is fitness blender. Anyway, you can find everything from 10 minute yoga videos to 60 min cardio videos and so much more. It is free and doesn't leave much room for excuses.

Show me your calender and I will show you your priorities. When it becomes important, you will make time.

This.

Also, what's up with your boyfriend? Is he sick or something?

I think you need to organize your life. A lot of people on here have way more going on than that and can still work out.

What's with the boyfriend? Is he injured or just a bum?

Never to busy

You said it yourself. They're all excuses. Stop making excuses.

I get up at 4:30 am and workout for an hour and go to work at 6:30 to travel almost 1 hour 45 minutes. Leave office at 4:30 and come home at 6 to make dinner for myself and my husband. Sleep at 9 to get up early. I want to watch late night shows and go out to party too, but my priority is my health and there is always some time between daily chores to do something if not every thing. Start small..look for incidental exercise like run instead of walking. Park your car a little away, carry grocerries in hand instead of shopping trolley to the parking lot (that is a good strength erercise) or jump a rope for 10 minutes meanwhile your stew is cooking. Run to catch a train even if theres 20 mintes to your train...and most important eat healthy,,,you dont need to take time out for that..just plan ahead in your mind..YOU CAN DO IT.

I hear you on being busy. I have five kids, work from home with my husband running our own business, have school runs and kindy for 3 of my kids and I homeschool my eldest, my youngest is still a baby. I find that I just have to schedule time and stick to it. It helps us to print out a weekly timetable and work out where there's a few hours here and there and block it off for exercise. I go to the gym 5 days a week for about 1-2 hours at a time, 3 of those days are right after school drop off in the morning, the other 2 are at night time around dinner and hubby gets dinner sorted and kids into bed on those nights, but then we also work as a team, and pick up each others slack. He also goes out to the gym for around 90mins each morning at 5am because that's when he'd prefer to go and that's his main block of free time throughout the week.

If you want it bad enough you figure out a way to make it work. I used to tell myself I didn't have time, but then I'd find myself sitting down for 3 hours watching TV or reading at night, if I had a exercise bike or treadmill at home I could have been walking and doing the same thing. Even without those things I could be doing leg lifts, wall squats, I had a fitball and some handweights so I could have been using them too. Do a search on working out at home in the forums here you'll find 100's of ideas.

The title says it all. I am so busy with going to school plus taking care of my boyfriend, my house and my pets I can't seem to find anytime to do any workouts. I go to school 9-2. Then I come home do housework and tend to my boyfriends needs even tho he can walk. I cook, clean for him. Sometimes it is frustrating. but I do it anyways. Because of the cold weather I don't really walk anymore. I feel bad for my pets because they miss being walked. I know these are all excuses but it is true. If anyone is in my shoes or has been through what I am going through maybe you can help me or tell me what worked for you. I made it to 194 pounds but I can't seem to go lower.

Perhaps you left out a critical piece of information regarding your boyfriend, why can't your boyfriend tend to his own needs? Put another way, why does his needs take priority over yours? Unless there is a reason your boyfriend is incapable of taking care of some of his own needs and reducing the burden on you, I would suggest you stop acting like his cook and cleaner and make sometime for yourself.

This!

And if you don't want to exercise that's different, just eat less calories (that you won't be burning) and you can still lose weight! And walk the dog!!! That's cruel!

Excuses Doesn't burn calories..work out do...

Show me your calender and I will show you your priorities. When it becomes important, you will make time.

This /I\. Exercise is not necessary to lose weight, accountable eating is. I’m sure you eat every day, ensure you end each day with a caloric deficit and the weight will fall off. If you can never find time to work out then it is imperative that you monitor what you eat (more so than usual). Don’t make excuses, make progress.

I work out at home on youtube. There are some really good channels, one I use is fitness blender. Anyway, you can find everything from 10 minute yoga videos to 60 min cardio videos and so much more. It is free and doesn't leave much room for excuses.

I do this. And I go to school full time plus work full time plus have a boyfriend and chores and homework. you just need to commit to some workout... even if its 30 min.

Yeah, it you want to workout you need to make time. You need to make the time to take care of yourself.

I don't mean to pry, but why do you cook and clean for your boyfriend? Can't he do that stuff himself?

If it's important to you- you can make it happen. 30
Minutes can give you enough time to get in a great workout. Believe in yourself. Know your worth it and do it!

I'm always surprised by how much activity I can fit into a routine that seems full. I used to walk to the bus, I find that by leaving 10 minutes earlier, I can skip the bus and walk right to the train (that's almost 20 minutes return on 10 minutes of input from the schedule). I don't stand and wait for anything, I pace. When I walk somewhere, I pick the hilliest/roughest route. If there isn't a walk light on in the direction I'm heading, I go across the street and back with the light. If the elevator isn't waiting when I get in the lobby, I take the stairs. I average 7+ miles a day walking without officially "working out".

If anyone is in my shoes or has been through what I am going through maybe you can help me or tell me what worked for you.

I stopped being a martyr and realised that the most important person in my life is me. And if I had a partner that expected me to do everything for him then that is an abusive relationship (I learned this the hard way). Does your partner make you do these things and make you feel awful if you don't? Or are you doing this out of your own sense of obligation?
I do thing like cooking for my current boyfriend (because he simply has no idea) but he does a lot for me too. It is give and take. He encourages me when I want to do things. He spots me when I lift weights, if I need him to.

Having said that, I understand that once you've fallen into the habit of doing these things it can be hard to stop, and difficult to realise that YOU are IMPORTANT and worthy of investing time into. It seems like you want to take control and do the things you want to do. The only way to do this is to just start. Even if it's sporadic. Just start. Half an hour dedicated to yourself at this point may see a lot, but it really is not.
If you can't do this, if you partner does not support you, then you need to seek help (via a counsellor or a friend, or even a stranger if need be) to build your self-esteem to a point where you can push back or leave. No one is worth sacrificing yourself for, and believe me when I tell you that love and respect needs to be reciprocated.
If the issue is within yourself then you need to ask why. Again you need to feel worthy of this. You deserve to live the life you want to live. You only get one crack at life- this is your time and your decision.

Best of luck to you. Feel free to friend me if you would like support xx