Yes, what made you STOP loving it? I'm sure 'waaaay back when', you actually LOVED exercising.. Remember when you were a kid and just dying to go outside, hating to sit still, waiting for the clock to hit recess time?
There had to be a point where you stopped loving it and started hating it, and maybe, just maybe, figuring out WHY you started getting a negative perception of exercise will help with creating positive images of exercise??
For me, I was sort of a chubby kid. I used to love running around, exercising basically.. I loved recess, I loved going outside, I loved rollerblading, ice hockey, street hockey, riding my bike. I hated sitting inside and doing nothing, I loved moving.
For me, I think I started disliking exercise when it was turned into school gym. I was always picked last or near last and teased because I couldn't keep up with the other kids or I didn't know all the rules to the games because my parents didn't really give a damn or have enough time to take me to games even when I wanted to join things like soccer or vaulting class.
I think it came from the teasing and people pushing me to do as well as the other more athletic kids where I just labelled myself a failure and started skipping gym class and thinking of exercise as some horrible thing. From doing the laps around the middle and high school tracks when it was 95 degrees and humid Virginia weather, or icy cold and my lungs burned..
I don't think I ever hated the exercise. I think it was being pushed and coming in last and being humiliated. I think I need to remind myself it wasn't the exercise I hated, and now that I'm 25, I'm not competing against anyone except myself..
Does anyone else feel this way?