No exercise = failing diet

i swear weight loss is 80% diet, 15% exercise, and 5% mental. Sounds like you need to get the mental part up so that you can focus on your diet until you can add the exercise component.

You know what you need to do and you are worth it so don't cheat yourself of a healthy lifestyle. Try sticking with small goals so you dont get overwhelmed and plan your day's worth of food a head of time!

Good luck!

Girl up, girl! Yeah, I'm totally kidding.

This is that missing link that the nutritionists/personal trainers talk about. There is a mind/body connection, and how you feel about yourself and how well you look after yourself is definitely affected by exercise or no exercise. My hubby & I call it my "happy pill." If I'm not lifting weights (much more so that than cardio), I am a GROUCH and the diet is the first thing to go.

The good news is, there's PLENTY of exercises you can do to jump-start your day, like burpees, knee-ups, jumping jacks, jump rope, sprints, etc., that require NO GYM and will kick your a** big-time. Good luck, and get back to it, woman! You can do it!:happy:

This is what you do: get up off your *kitten* right now, pull up your big girl panties and say "I'm doing this for me!".

Then take you happy butt to Wal-Mart or go onto Amazon.com & order yourself some workout DVD's. The gym is over-rated. I am proof. I am better built, cut, toned, firmed & stronger working out at home than I EVER was in the years spent at the gym. I spend my "gym" money on new cute workout gear (who cares if no one butt me gets to see it, I'm the one who counts!) and on new DVD's & equipment: nothing fancy, just some dumbbells (3, 5, 8 & 10 are what I use), a step for my cardio/aerobics, some exercise balls (2 & 5 pounds) & wrist & ankle weights to up my resistance & a resistance band.
I mix up my workouts from Strength, Cardio, Step-Aerobics & Dance to Tai'Chi, Tae Bo, Kickboxing and Yoga (Instructors like Tammilee Webb, Scott Cole, Janis Safel, Jillian Michaels & Stacy McCarthy are really motivating!).

And what you don't spend on the gym you can now spend on the new wardrobe you KNOW you'll end up needing. I was so happy when I fit back into my old size 9's until I realized I was in better shape & they just don't look the way they did 5 or 8 years ago! I am now closer to a size 7, which I have NEVER been in my LIFE! The rest of the money I save may end up starting to go into a new, uh, "chest lift" shall we say since they were mostly fat & I've lost a lot of fat Either that or buying stock in Victoria's Secret add-2-cup-sizes :laugh:

No excuses, you're stronger than that.

A have a similar problem. When I can burn 800 calories a day doing cardio, I can eat whatever I want. But I've had a bad back injury the better part of a year that has keep me from doing much. It's very hard to stick to a diet.

I understand though it takes about 2 weeks for your body to recognize a routine change. So if you keep you diet up for a couple weeks, your body will have an easier time accepting the new norm.