doesn't matter how fast, any one can do it :)

This. I'm the slowest in the pool where I swim... but my half-mile is a half-mile more than everyone who doesn't show up.

Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??

I think the trick to keeping to your exercise program is to make it into a habit. Make it part of your routine. Once you do it for a few weeks it gets easier. But everyone slips up sometimes so when you "fall off the wagon", just keep trying. We're all a work in progress.

If you push the couch, they will always win

Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??

I was just like you, I'd exercise for a week, then quit for 3. I kept with this pattern until I read a book and it explained that it takes 21 days to form a habit. So I set a goal of being consistent with exercise for 21 days....and haven't looked back since.

So give yourself 21 days, within those 21 days, workout at least 5 days a week. PLAN the workouts, write them on your calendar and do not let anything get in the way.

that is great !!

I ran my first 10miles today, last november I couln't even run 3 km so just remember that anything is possible x

Yes sir!

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I love it too. Thanks so much for posting this. I used to think that 30 mins of walking or any slow kind of exercise is not going to help me if I don't control my diet with it. With that thinking, I wouldn't work out nor I would control my diet. I was SO WRONG....:(

Your post makes perfect sense.
THANKS!!!

Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??

try exercising just about every day for 3 weeks...by the time you finish the 3 weeks, it will be habit.

When I first started working out a few months ago, the first 2 weeks I went to the gym Monday thru Friday...then I cut down to m-w-f ( I was having endurance issues)

the last month or so I have been trying to go 4 times a week--Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. In the next few weeks, I need to pick Saturday up--my daughter is training for Cross Country.

I so agree. My motivation at the beginning was I was determined to lose weight. I was determined to exercise every day. At the beginning I was afraid to miss a day of exercise because I don't want to lose track and not have one day go to 2, to next thing being weeks. Now, after 5 months, I don't feel right if I don't get exercise in every day.

Great post, thanks! I am taking my weight loss journey very slow, not because I necessarily want to, but because I was not totally committed evidently. I began Weight Watchers 21 months ago, and I have not missed but a couple of times going to my weekly meeting in those months. I am only at the 34 lb loss. That is ok though, I figure it means I have kept off what I was losing and as long as I do not give up, I will make it!

Now, I have a fire lite under me it seems, and I have been working out with a personal trainer doing strength and cardio 3x a week, so maybe soon, I will begin to lose a little faster and more consistently. Before I was not tracking everything, and now I am putting down every bite, lick and taste.