No Motivation :( & Fitness Buddies

I am in your position as well, but I've found that I am responsible for every aspect of my life (who'd have thought....).

If I'm not particularly in the mood to workout, I watch fitness videos on Youtube. I sometimes may check out some success stories on various blogs and websites. I may come here to the forums to see people post about their progress or starting a C25K program. This usually motivates me to get up and get going.

I am now looking for a good health/fitness book because lately I've been wanting my inspiration/motivation to come from reading a book instead of the internet, don't know why.

We may be different people, though... (well, of course), but I mean you may be more sociable than I am. I'm fine with doing things on my own. Once, I worked out with friend, but I didn't like it because she was in a different fitness class than I was. She would be like "Push. Push. PUSH" and I would be like.... "You carry half my weight. I can't Push. Push. PUSH." lol. So, I prefer flying solo and doing my own thing in the gym or in the park.

I've been going for 2 hours the past week, but i have no motivation to go yesterday or today just cant get into the mood

I am rarely motivated or "in the mood" to spend 8hrs a day at my desk, working, but I do it anyways because I like the reward/result - a nice paycheck.

I do it because it has to been done, whether I want to or not.

At work we had little healthy challenges. Those helped me get started. They started out simple, like try 3 new fruits and vegetables this week. That way the picky eaters broadened their horizons. For me that was hard because I will pretty much eat anything, and I live in a small town so finding new things at the grocery can be hard.

One of the next challenges was eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day. Another was drink 8 glasses of water a day, I drank one every two hours. Then we did try to exercise 3 times this week. Doing little things helped. I think I read that it takes 21 days for something to become a habit. So choose one and do it for a week, then if you want add another one the next week, but keep up each challenge for three weeks. Maybe that will make it easier.

As for exercise. The first time I went to the gym I timed how long it took me to walk a mile. I then asked my father who was in the airforce what his fastest mile was in basic training. My first goal was to always beat my last time, then I decided consistency was better and my goal was do a mile in 15 minutes, eventually my cardio became 3 miles in 45 minutes, walk/jog including warm up and cool down. I am 5'1" so there was even running! I have since moved and the gym is no longer two miles from my house... so I don't do it anymore, but I miss it.

Improve your diet with healthier foods. If you eat right, you will feel right which will then give you that little pep and motivation to go workout. However, if you eat like *kitten* then you'll feel like sh*it :-) Once you notice that first little bit of weight loss or reduction in body size, you'll be even more motivated to work out.

Good Luck! We're all here for you if you need motivation!

I am a 20 year old in the same boat as you. I don't have the time to go to the gym - yes you heard it. I work 8am-8:15pm monday through Saturday, and on Sundays and at night I work on my homework. I work an office job so I have found that it is easy for me to take to the stairwell at work and run up and down a few times. On lunch breaks I like to walk around and get a quick exercise. You can also lay on your floor and do exercises at night as well as doing other activities at home. You don't HAVE to go to the gym to get your heart rate up.