I'm Lazy...and it blows

Once you get moving you will keep moving! It feels GREAT! and rewarding yourself is a great thing to do! just figure out something you want that you can get like if you go to the gym three time this week you get some sort of reward. what works is up to you and just dont get it if you dont. I stay away from free wieghts cause i feel the same way. get on the cardio machines and use the machines for the weight training at first if your worried. Track your food intake!! That is the most important part!

You have to find something you like and look forward to. I really loved spinning. It was a group atmosphere which made me work harder BUT the room is usually dark so you can kind of go into your own world. No one is paying attention to anyone but themselves. Plus the burn is incredible...probably the highest if not one of the highest burns per hour you can do. It helped me lose 40 pounds. You have to start somewhere. I started at the gym overweight in baggy gym clothes. Now I'm an instructor wearing form fitting overly priced gym clothes. :-D A year from now you will have wished you started today. You can DO this! Add me if you want as a friend...oh, and sell that damn video game system! ;-)

who cares what people think at the gym??? Personally, me and like most people are just SO focused in on their fitness regiume that I tune out other people. Also I go to the gym and hop on the treadmill and watch the latest episode of a tv show like Biggest Loser or I watch the news
Not to mention the only person you should be losing weight is for yourself and you need to want it bad...I have goals set up and it motivates me like one of mine is in a couple more pounds and Im gonna get my cartledge pierced when according to the BMI Im no longer overweight...I set big prizes like that and then when I reach my goal weight Im gonna buy new clothes...but it sounds like you would benefit at starting out with smaller prizes and smaller weight loss in between

Good Luck

start small, if you don't want to go to the gym then walk for 10 minutes every 2 hours at work. I sit behind a desk all day and now I make sure I get up every couple of hours and do somtething. i even walk to the post office instead of driving each day. it takes almost the same amount of time so my boss doesn't care. the little things add up

start small, if you don't want to go to the gym then walk for 10 minutes every 2 hours at work. I sit behind a desk all day and now I make sure I get up every couple of hours and do somtething. i even walk to the post office instead of driving each day. it takes almost the same amount of time so my boss doesn't care. the little things add up

I have the same problem when my energy crashes in the middle of the day! Are you taking any vitamins? A super B complex may help you to get moving.

So what's worse? Sitting there worrying about what people might think or going to the gym realizing that those tards have nothing going for them other than in impressive vein structure you can see from space?

Stop letting other people dictate your actions. If you are truly that worried about it look into a personal trainer. One that can work with you during off hours in the gym to help you feel better. You are taking good steps by eating better and doing some form of exercise. Get out and go walking. Do you have a dog? Maybe a friend who has a dog that you get along well with (friend or dog whatever), ask if you could take it out walking. The cuter it is the better your chances are of meeting a girl who likes animals. And you're getting exercise.

So start rewarding yourself with stuff if you get your chunky butt in the gym. Go for an entire week, you get a lapdance (no I'm not giving it), go for a month, get a tattoo, go for 6 months (on a regular schedule like set it up to be at least 3 times a week or whatever), take your hot g/f on a road trip, because if you do 6 months in the gym and keep eating less you won't care what people think or say anymore. You are not living for the rest of the jamooks, you are living for you, and you need to live for the best you, you can be. God that's a lot of commas...

If you don't have a specific goal, then you need to give yourself rewards for working out. I reached my goal in June (which was when the event I wanted to lose for occured), so I try to plan random events so I want to maintain my weight (got a party in November that I have a tiny dress to wear). If that doesn't work for you, then you need to give yourself rewards.

For instance, you get an hour of Madden after you complete a specific workout routine -- all stuff you can do at home -- push-ups, burpees, jumping jacks, running, etc. And if you have some weights, use those. I lost all my weight (around 60-70 pounds in all) without a gym.

What are some goals or rewards I could give myself for hitting the gym? I'm a walking contradiction and basketcase. I sit here at work and look at all the success stories and all the awesome weight loss people have done and think wow she looks amazing, I wish she was mine or damn he's really cut down I wish I looked like him, but then I get off of work and go home and play madden 12 for 8 friggen hours and think that eating right and doing 15 leg lifts and 10lb curls 10 times is gonna get me abs and a hot body. Plus it doesn't help i'm scared to go to the gym cause im afraid people are gonna laugh at me cause I look dumb doing all the machines. I'm outgoing in EVERY aspect in life besides fitness so I have no idea what the hell my problem could be.

I'm very goal/reward orientated but can't get myself enough energy/courage/whatever to start pounding away all this bull**** fat.


Help?

I have several comments. Some of which you may not enjoy but for some reason you strike me as the type that can handle forwardness.

1) You probably don't want it bad enough.
2) I very much doubt people in the gym will pay any attention to you. ESPECIALLY the more hardcore folks. They're too busy focusing on the task at hand--- smashing weights and setting PR's. They could give a fook about what you're doing as long as you're not curling in the squat cage or texting someone while sitting on the leg press.
3) Learn to use freeweights. Machines are fine and better than nothing but what is stopping you from learning to squat/deadlift/etc?


And just so you don't think I'm trying to hammer on you, here's some more friendly advice:

You should take measurements, and photographs, and log everything. Start weight training NOW, and get your diet in check. Throw away your scale or stop looking at it for a while. See what happens in a month.

And see sig.

Good luck.

Hi, your post made me laugh......!!

Its hard to know what goals or rewards you could give yourself without knowing what you like to do-apart from video games, and those arent very productive for keeping you at the gym or eating right!!

My goal is to get to a certain weight which should go hand in hand with a certain dress size I want to be (fingers crossed)- are you more interested in a certain weight you want to get to? If so could you then break this down into mini goals. So reward yourself after each 10/20 pounds lost or something?

A lot of women I know reward themselves with something not food based!! lol- like a manicure/pedicure/ a new outfit or even a weekend away with their partner/boyfriend or whatever...... Im not sure what the male equivalent would be?

Like I say, pretty hard to know what to suggest without knowing you better and because Im not a man!!! lol

Good luck anyway with it, you have to be in the right frame of mind to lose weight and FOCUS!! A will power of steel is required if you have a significant amount to lose. Just remember though its not a race so you should never pressure yourself into losing for a certain date because you might then be setting yourself up for failure :0/

You have made the first steps by joining the site and acknowledging that you want to do something about it. I wish you every success for the future.

Feel free to add me- I have lost 49 pounds so far and Im nearly at goal. You may not need/want any new friends but if you do , send me a request.

Emma x