OK - Kick my ass everyone.......

[Bullwinkle925]

I simply MUST get the discipline to incorporate some form of exercise every day. I (barely) walked today.

[AlCzervik]

1. ok we can't come to your house and force you

so i'm just gonna ask you---Do you really want to lose some weight and improve your health? If you're really ready you'd just do it without us being your drill Sgt. Hows that for tough love?

Let me tell you where i'm at so it doesn't happen to you ok? I felt like crap for the past 5 years and i had gained a good deal of weight. I felt tired all the time and pretty cranky, my 38th birthday was looming and i finally decided it was time, i wasn't going to wait until i turned 40 to get off my ass and try and change my lifestyle. So here i am almost 4 months later, i've lost about 45 lbs. and i'm closing in on my goal, i've got about another 15 to lose. Health wise i'm in a much better place, i sleep though the night for the first time in years, my skin looks a hell of a lot better and my self esteem is getting to what i would call pretty good.

Don't wait until tomorrow ok, just get yourself started today, once you see some success you'll be motivated to continue.

[swimboy]

2. Okay!

:kick: aimed at your lazy ass!!! Remember how much fun you have out and about and how good you feel when you finish! Now get out there!:spank:

[flvegan]

3. Did you set up a reward system?

Look back to my original response to you...

[midnight armadillo]

4. The more you exercise, the more you want to

After the first few days when you might be sore, I've found that exercise tends to be self-reinforcing. Sitting still all day will start to really bug you!

Personally I tend to manage to go 4-5 weeks of getting exercise 3-5x a week, then things come up and I'll miss a week or so, and then am rarin' to get back to working up a sweat.

[MissMillie]

5. Hi Bullwinkle

I'm sorry I haven't responded to you sooner. I have not spent much time on DU this past week as I have been sick and spending a lot of time in bed or on the sofa.

First of all, I want to say "BRAVO!" for your decision to come in and to state outright that you want to make a change in your life. Of course, this is the first step.

Now, you gotta prove that you really want it, but not to us, to yourself.

Let me tell you a couple things about exercise that will sound like cliches but are absolute truths.

First of all: there will always be something that will seem like an excuse to NOT exercise. If you let these "excuses" thwart your efforts, there will undoubtedly be regret. However, if you make your exercise the priority, it is unlikely that you will ever say, "I wish I hadn't worked out today." Seriously, I don't think anyone here ever says that. I know I don't.

Second, flvegan says you should set up a reward system, and I think that for starters you probably should. In the long-run, however, I think you will find that exercise is its own reward. I have been sick for the past 6 days, and not working out. Seriously, I hated that I wasn't working out. It made me feel lousy, physically and mentally. I'm still not 100% today (my head is still a little stuffy) but working out today made me feel so much better.

I have lost a lot of weight in the last year, but in the last 6 months the weight has been coming off very slowly. Yeah, I could be better about what I eat, but thank goodness I have been religious about working out. My body may never be the body of an athlete, and I may never run a marathon, but I am so far from where I started, and I am determined to NEVER go back. I am younger now than I was 5 years ago, and I feel better, in every sense, than I have in YEARS and YEARS.

Do this for yourself. You deserve it. You have to believe that health and fitness are a reward in and of themselves. Have some self-love and give this gift to yourself.

Good luck!