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Love the immense response! I am glad to meet all you hardcore home gym enthusiasts! I'm doing this because I will clear out part of a garage that has a high ceiling, and really for one person and only my routine that has worked for years, I don't need much space. I also stopped doing barbell squats, opting for dumbbell…

Yeah, it comes down to wanting it bad enough!

I like the working out at home idea. If it wasn't so cold outside, it wouldn't look like a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter at 7pm in one of the most densely populated cities in the US.

When I needed to lose fat, I knew that just lifting weights wouldn't be enough, as a man who likes to challenge my physical limits. So, I devised a compound movement higher rep weight routine and decimated my fat. If your lifts become aerobic instead of anaerobic, you will burn fat easily while eating correctly.

Start small, but start for sure! Keep moving, first of all. If you catch yourself being sedentary, get up and move. Also, analyze your food without criticism, and start making reasonable decisions to cut back on things and introducing healthy alternative snacks in between meals, like carrots and almonds, for example. Set…

Alright, I'll start. I motivate myself by examining what state I consider myself in physically before a workout. Am I on the ball? Am I falling behind and it shows because I'm getting flabby or losing muscle in certain places? Am I too tired from various things, including previous workouts? Have I eaten enough today before…

Yeah those look like real Nice Guy shorts. I could see how that would work on nice guys that smell nice.

Ok, kind of a feedback loop thing, maybe too deep and subjective to work for motivationally challenged individuals, unless of course you can just show up at everybody's house like a little Richard Simmons. And that pic is disturbing.

Ugh this forum is weird. Is it D1ck13s?

Oh yeah, I forgot to say I don't wear underwear. It's uncomfortable.

I appreciate all the responses, and everyone is entitled to personal opinions, which is fine. I find it interesting that what is deemed sexy on a guy can differ among differing groups of people. I am not the type that would be wearing loud colors or pastels or plaids, nor the shorts that are so long they look like your…

This is perfectly valid, as they say it's 90% mental and 10% physical!

I like this story. I run into so many people that either are diabetic or are about to be, and diet and lifestyle can turn that around and have added benefits that we may have gotten used to shrugging away!

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That works, too! I'm beginning to see I am not alone in my general internalized motivations.

A great motivation, to not to allow your circumstances to dictate how you live and be a living exception to the rule!

That's very good motivation. To stay alive and healthy you have to keep moving. It also troubles me when I see my elders who constantly pushed me to be active now becoming old and sedentary and lacking motivation for some mysterious internal psychological reasons, if not for physical debilitations.

I like that, a world full of sexier looking people living longer is a happier world.

This happens to everyone for various reasons. A lot of good, smart responses here already. The easiest answer for anyone at a plateau is "change what you're doing, it's not working anymore". The specifics of what to change are unique to the individual. In your case, since you like running, first eat enough nutritious meals…

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About 8 years ago, I went from a thick and flabby and lumpy 210 pounds to beginning a new strict diet and exercise program at home with my dumbbells, bench press, and morning yoga before breakfast. I lost over 25 pounds in the first month, probably about 45 pounds by month 2, and 50-55 pounds by three months. I had not…

This is exactly right.

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BTW, cardio to lose weight versus cardio as part of your lifting sessions are two different things. Losing weight comes down to one thing: calories in have to be less than calories out. If you don't get that right, you'll never lose weight. Some people are not weight lifters, so they should do their cardio. But, if the…

My fat pants didn't fit one day. I looked in the mirror and saw an incredibly fat guy, that wasn't me. Starved myself off the pasta and sugars, regimented my meals, worked out diligently, lost 60 pounds, lost like 40 of it fast. Now I'm gaining it all back the right way, still on a "diet" ever since, but now I eat up to…

I never do cardio, ever. My "cardio" is part of my weight lifting/strength training workouts, keeping my heart rate up and keeping sessions between 40 and 60 minutes. Doing this three times a week at least, with proper sleep and nutrition, I find no reason to waste my time and energy doing cardio things like treadmill…

It sounds like you're doing it alone, and you need discipline. That's where this community comes in, and since that doesn't work for you so far, you have to be the person that disciplines yourself. My biggest inspiration has always been looking in the mirror. Look at the parts you wish to change and see that they are there…

Great! How long have been using MFP, and what motivates you the most, immediately? Would it help if I told you that all you have to do is work out 3 times a week for 40 minutes, not even worry about doing any cardio, and the weight will start melting off in about two weeks as long as your nutrition is in order? Also, let's…

Yes, I only really use this to count calories. I almost never do any actual cardio workouts, so my strength training exercises serve no purpose to track. I was quite surprised to find out that I consume 3000-4000 calories/day just to maintain my weight.

Add me if you'd like, everyone! I am like a lighthouse of fitness determination to everyone I know, I'll be glad to get you moving to your goal and beyond.