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| Thu, 07-13-2006 - 1:50pm |
Yup, that's my title. I don't know what to do. Seriously, why am I sabotaging myself so badly? I don't want to work out, don't want to eat right, don't want to do a darn thing. I'm lazy, I know I am. I have no desire to change anything, to fix anything.
Boy, am I in a rut.
I know I need short-term goals, with some sort of reward at the end. Do you think I should set something up with K? Although, it has to be somethign I REALLY want, that I can't buy for myself.
My friend asked me a good questoin. What motivates me to do things, and GET THEM DONE?!?! I had to think about it. Either it's something that is forced (i.e. packing to move) or something I am totally sick of (i.e. cleaning cuz it's dirty). But losing weight, nothing is forcing me to do it. Not even my pitiful health issues (i.e. sore feet, clothes not fitting, etc).
At this moment, I'm going to sign up with Girls On the Move through Health.com magazine. You can find other women in your area, to run with. Maybe I can find me a running partner who'll force me to go. Bleah. Maybe I should check out the local gyms and see what kind of classes they have.

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I am in the exact same rut! Feel like I'm starting to come around not sure though. Gained back 6 lbs. in the last month. :oP Actually did some yoga last night, ate a decent dinner. Then doing okay so far today. Maybe I'll be able to hang on maybe not. I end up in a vicious cycle of being depressed so I eat and sit on my butt. Then I feel worse because I ate. Then get mad because there are certain things I love to but shouldn't so I eat them anyway. lol
Checking out the health.com site.
I didn't find any groups that are actually DOING anything. It's too funny. I found two, one isn't set-up yet, the other has ppl, but aren't doing anything either. For now, I'll just keep watching and try to get my butt in gear.
BTW, your vicious cycle, that's me. And that's the mental thing I want to break. I'm not really an emotional eater, but when I get lazy (I don't; wanna say depressed, cuz I'm not), I eat.
Ugh. lol.
I'm glad though, that you did SOMETHING at least. And keep it up. :) I know I need a lot of motivation, and well, sadly, it needs to come from within. I have none, so here, I'm giving you what I have on the outside. lol. Go do more yoga. :)
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I hear you, really I do. I put a post on my board about this very thing. I can't get into a good rhythm since the wedding. I do go to HKD, I have to since I pay, and I do my other exercise too, but not as much as before, just slogging through my workouts and haven't been training for the 5K.
I have gotten the eating a bit back under control, but it's so hard with the changes, new schedules for everything from leaving for work to the time DH likes to eat dinner...just difficult right now.
My diet went south in June, literally since we were on vacation down south, but when I got back I was eating ice cream in the evenings and eating some chips with DH at lucnh, Terra Chips, but still I didn't eat chips before. I was just tired of trying so hard to eat only good things and exercise hard before the weddings. I wanted to be free from it all, but alas, I didn't feel too energetic or too happy with the way I was starting to look, so I am trying to get back at it.
It's so tough to stay motivated, especially since we have to stay motivated for the rest of our lives.
Aw hugs....see, I know this exact feeling. Mine went down south by the time I moved, mostly because of the stress from school, moving, wedding. Then I just wanted to relax some. Boy have I relaxed......10-15 lbs relaxed. lol.
I am going to go remove my ticker, because I can say this, we're not running the 5k, that'd be a joke. lol.
"It's so tough to stay motivated, especially since we have to stay motivated for the rest of our lives. " Honestly, this is why I want to see if hypnosis works. I know for a FACT I will NOT stay motivated for the rest of my life. I feel, hypnosis could change that way of thinking for me. I wont' say it'll work, but if it does, yay. :)
I was never good at long-term goals, and this is exaclty why I've been overweight for
I hear you!!!
I think you found the key Miranda.......
"So as long as I didn't use the WORD exercise my brain was happy being active!"
LOL. Seriously, what is up with our minds? What is keeping us from going to the gym, new class or not? Hence my ugh. lol. I'm trying the trick the brain thing by seeing what classes they offer at my gym. I was thinking maybe I'd try a spin class. Mostly everyone I know loves it.
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Joining a class is definitely motivating. Of course, I have to be there since I'm working toward black belt, but it's still nice to be involved in a group setting where you make friends and go to see them as well as to exercise, or to be active. In the case of our class, people start to wonder where you are if you miss a few classes too, so that's a good thing.
I like my workouts where I can be alone too, but the group setting can be good, especially if you're learning something, you enjoy it and you've paid for it, and if you like the instructor or the people there. The other thing with classes is they give you that set schedule. We have several classes in a week, but the ones that fit my schedule are Tuesday and Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons so that's the schedule I'm on and the instructors know it, and the others I train with too.
I've actually been thinking about I will do if DH and I move next year or after that even. I need to be involved in something, maybe martial arts still, but I like working on tennis with DH so I thought maybe I would take lessons if I moved away from where I train in HKD. I think it helps me focus on fitness. That's why I want to have something in the back of my mind to keep me focused when life takes us somewhere new.
Yep - i was right there with you last night. I was a SLUG! I dropped my daughter off at her cheer class, then I drove to the gym. Then I turned around and DROVE OUT of the parking lot, over to buy a burrito, then home to lay on the couch for a few hours. And then got up and ate ice cream...
I try not to feel too bad about it since I was just EXHAUSTED last night. I have worked out every day for the last I don't know how long without a day off, so last night, when I just didn't feel I had any energy left, I let myself be a slug.
I actually said to my DH sitting on the couch next to me, "so, this is how it feels to come home and just sit down every night. It's a pretty nice thing!" (cuz it's what he does EVERY night).
But, I have to admit, I did feel it was wasted time, and then just thought about all of the laundry, grocery shopping, cleaning, etc that really needed to be done, and I don't think I enjoyed it as much as I should have. And I didn't feel good about myself this morning, so I'm back on track and motivated again today. Maybe I just need a 'slug' day once in a while to get myself re-energized and back on track.
Of course, after weeks of being good, and one day of being bad, I'll probably gain 5 pounds just from one night of sitting on the couch. I hate that. 1 day can seem to totally derail a good 2 weeks!
No great advice here, just wanted you to know YOU ARE NOT ALONE! It's so hard to stay motivated, but I try to remember the overall health benefits of exercise, and make myself just plan to go for even a 20 minute workout (and then I end up staying longer cuz I get energy while I'm working out). It's all about 'tricking' myself, apparently. :-)
Tonya
That's part of our problem, I think.
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