Motivation July 9, 2009
I have a monkey on my back…it’s name is exercise. I’m just not in the mood to do it. I’m trying but I just don’t feel like doing it. I need set times to do stuff. I can’t exercise if I’m full. I can’t take a walk after dark. I don’t want to go alone. I could come up with a list 2 feet long about why I can’t exercise and the only a few for me to exercise.
- Because I want to be healthy.
- Because I want to be pretty.
- Because I don’t want to let the 3FC ladies down on the exercise forum.
- Because I want to have children naturally and my best chance will increase if I lose the weight (07.13.09)
My goal for this next week is to do my exercise and come up with more POSITIVES to do exercise. Perhaps I’ll put a thread on the forum for people’s positives. And perhaps periodically I’ll come back and update this little doo dad and add some more positives. I’m also going to think about starting an exercise post like my food diary post 
I’m just a fat n happy young woman on my way to healthy, one step at a time, one bite at a time, and punch at a time.
As a woman who has started a LOT (I mean a LOT) of diets (some even successful) I would advise to give yourself a few weeks to do EITHER exercise OR diet before you attack both. Attacking both at once leads fast to “on” and “off” the program thinking, and to burnout.
I usually find that once I can get into a routine where one is not a struggle, the other one finds its place pretty naturally.
This time I started w diet, but there’ve been times I’ve started w exercise.
Another thing that helped me was a cardiologist (a friend, not someone I saw as a doctor) told me that people should think of diet and exercise as separate things (not calories in, calories out). He said there are tons of benefits of exercise, especially in improving insulin sensitivity, but that the benefits are much greater than the few calories burned off. That offhand comment of his has really stuck with me, and I completely gave up on watching the calories readouts at the gym - I know I’m exercising for health, not weight.
Good luck - you look like you’re off to a great start on your program