any success stories on/from...LAZINESS?

I am lazy, and that was the main reason I was overweight. I decided to change it and make a committment and now I'm working out everyday just to keep that promise to myself. I never thought I could do it, but after almost 6 months I'm used to it and I do feel soooo much better being fit.
Good luck!

You know, there are a lot of days i want to be lazy and could make excuse after excuse but the only one losing is me. Do you think anyone else is going to place the value that should be placed on you, your life? Sure people care and love me ( like my husband) but at the days end I'm the one who has to answer to that image staring back at me in the mirror and that is raw because i know all of my own secrets, excuses, etc. We just got back from a 1.75 mile walk and in that short distance i saw a junior high school girl out on the field who was very obese not enjoying the fun with the other kids. I passed up a couple who was walking at snails pace drinking a coke and complaining that it was hot and she was turning around, she too was overweight. Then i saw another man, very obese, using his motor scooter to check the mail. Now im not in any position to judge and i dont know these peoples stories but i do know that i want to set a good example for my kids who walk with me. I want them to grow up knowing that exercise isnt out of the norm or the exception but is something that can be fun and rewarding. I dont want them to grow up like i did eating junk and sitting in front of the tv all day long. I dont want to have to rely on a motor scooter to shop, check the mail or move. I want to be able to retire and still LIVE! I owe it to myself to care enough about me to do something for me so yes, i have many days where i feel lazy or am exhausted and dont want to do a darn thing but then i remind myself of things like what i saw today, things i see everyday, all too often and i get up off my butt and get it moving. Go outside and start walking. The good thing about being outside is you can't just quit, youve got to turn around and walk home! You're a rockstar you owe it to yourself to get up and go

I was lazy. My excuse was that I worked all day and didn't have time to exercise. I got in the cycle of going to work coming home, eating and then watching TV until bed. I started on MFP and dropped some weight without exercising and thought I could be the exception and change my body shape without exercise. I soon wised up and started exercising. I hated and dreaded it at first. I thought there's no way I can do this and should just face the fact that I was meant to be fat.

I think this is the thought that turned me around. As much as I hated exercising I decided to push myself to do it. I bought an elliptical for my home so I would have no excuse to not exercise. I started doing the 30DS. I started seeing results with the 30DS after about 6 days. Seeing my body change shape really got me off my *kitten*. I started adding an elliptical workout in addition to the shred.

I'm now on my second round of the shred and am doing 50 minutes on the elliptical. Something changed where I'm actually addicted to doing the work. One thing that this has taught me that although this is hard at first, I can push through it.

My success is from being lazy. Sounds weird but I figured out that in some instances it was good to be lazy. I am too lazy to work extra hard just to walk a mile. I am too lazy to work harder to deal with back pain because my gut stuck out below my t-shirt. I am too lazy and cheap too have to remind myself to take blood pressure meds and cholesterol meds that I would have had to take if I didn't change. I am too lazy to sweat standing still in the summer heat. I am too lazy to be fat. It may sound strange but it is logic that worked for me.

I used to go to bed at 8:30pm, get up around 6 or 7am and take pain pills that made me sleep until 10 or 11am. Then I'd get up, watch a few soaps on tv, get on the internet and eat off and on all day. Somedays I never even got dressed because my clothes were so uncomfortable. Exercise was walking to the mailbox or letting the dog out the gate to run in the field, while I watched her do it. I was so bad that even when I went camping, I'd take naps during the day!
I got so fat that I could sit my coffee cup on my stomach while using my laptop!

Now I can hardly sit still except in the morning when I'm on here, having coffee. I've lost over 30lbs, I no longer need the pain pills and I take the dog for 7-8 mile hikes! I feel soooo much better and wish I would have done this years ago.

Now off for my walk...

I only use my gym membership to use their scale once a week, I gave up the 30DS 8 days into it and I rarely exercise, but have lost 12lbs.

Does that count? :bigsmile:

I started working at home and turned into a sitting eating do nothing. Working at home can be the best thing or the worst thing for you. For the first 5 months, it was definitely bad for me. I would wake up, not eat, sit in front of my computer for hours (working...really) and then eat. Then I would have coffee...work some more, then make dinner and sit in front of the tv until I went to sleep. I gained 30 pounds in 5 months doing that. Not a good look for me. Since no one I know had seen me day to day- my trips back to my home state were really embarrassing for me. Finally when depression hit, I said, well, I can either give up and end up rolling around in a walmart electric cart bemoaning my existance, or I can do something to get myself out of this. My recliner is currently falling apart, and my husband and I were going to buy a new one. Instead, he went out and got me an elliptical and set it up for me while I was out one day.
I find that I wanted to work out less often when I had a gym membership. Now that I have the stuff I need at home, there are no excuses. I mean, it isn't hard to walk into another room and get on the elliptical for 30-45 minutes. If I have an excuse for it then I might as well have just burned the money I spent on it and call it a day.
Working at home which was once an awful way to let myself go has become a period of healthy hermitage I guess. Now I have months before I will see anyone I know, and the next time I do, I know if I work hard enough I will be a LOT thinnner than last time. I have been keeping my progress quiet for that exact purpose. It is kind of exciting.