Negative person - no wonder I struggle to get anywhere

It just takes a half hour walk to start activity. That's 30 minutes of your time.That's all. Just take it from there and make small goals. You CAN do it if you really want to.

That's it. You either want to..or you don't. There really aren't any tips that will help. It's your responsibility to make the changes in your own life, but you have to want to bad enough.

Maybe you just don't like running? You don't HAVE to run to lose weight, or do any exercise for that matter, as BinkyBonk pointed out. Personally, I'm on the fence about running. Sometimes I LOVE it, sometimes I'd much rather just go for a nice long walk or pop in a workout DVD or do some weight training. Find what's fun and interesting and/or challenging for you (or even a few things if you can manage) and you'll be more likely to stick with it.

If you actually do like running maybe you need to just mix it up? Find different routes to run that are hilly or meander thorugh neighborhoods you've never explored. Don't just run out your front door every time, drive to the next town over if you have to in order to keep it interesting. Sign up for races or find people to run with if you think that'll help.

I agree that you need to find exercise you enjoy. I love lifting - I went to the gym today and just did cardio as I'm not feeling great and I was so bored, if I was just doing that I'd have no motivation.

I'm a negative self-destructive person who loses motivation all the time but I manage to get myself to the gym in my lunch breaks because I love to lift!

Another good tip I found was to make it an appointment in your day - I set it as appointments in my work calendar - so you don't skip it.

I feel your pain because I have stood where you stand. I know how hard it is to go from somebody who thinks they can’t to somebody who knows they can. I spent decades slowly going from big, to overweight, to obese, to I might not life much longer – every step of the way I decided to lose weight and ultimately quit, because I couldn’t do it.

I can’t give you some magical words of wisdom that will get you over your negative thoughts but I can tell you this: you can do it. Despite not knowing anything about you I can say with great certainty that if I can get healthy than anybody, including you, can do it as well.

Somebody once told me that losing over 200 pounds would be an extraordinary accomplishment but not to worry because every day ordinary people do extraordinary things. I said bull**** – I don’t buy it, ordinary people don’t do extraordinary things, extraordinary people do.

I thought long about that conversation, and my feelings about it, since then and I still believe that theory is bull****. It isn’t that ordinary people are doing extraordinary things; it is that people who seem to be ordinary let their extraordinary out. You have extraordinariness in you, just let it out. As you do you will become more confident in yourself than you ever imagined. You will accomplish what you want to accomplish. You will believe in you - believe me.

Agree with others. Find something you love to do and it won't be a chore to do. I love my water aerobics. Find some cheap or free class to try out new things.