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just HATE working out more than anything so if something tastier comes along, I won't do it.
I've said this before in other posts - and again this is all about the way I look at it. I am an adult. There are things that I *have* to do as an adult that I HATE. For example: I am *not* a morning person. There are not words to express how very *not* a morning person I am and how much I hate getting up. But I do it. Because I'm an adult and I need to pay my bills. Speaking of which, I hate paying bills. I'd much rather go shopping for camera gear or cute clothes or go get a massage or spend the weekend in New Orleans. But because I'm an adult, I not only pay bills, but I put 12% of my income into savings and 12% into retirement, and set aside 38% for taxes (the joy of being self-employed) . It freakin' HURTS to set that money aside. But I do it becuase I'm an adult and it's what adults do.
Like I said above, I put going to the gym on a priority with meeting clients, paying bills, etc.
And that's how I look at eating right and exercising when I am completely unmotivated. I don't have to like it. I don't have to enjoy it. I don't have to skip to the gym singing happy songs. I just have to get my butt in there and do it. Because I'm 40 and there's a history of osteoperosis, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease in my family and as an adult, I know that excercising is something I *HAVE* to do or face some very negative consequences: not just weight gain, but poor health.
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I guess its because I've lost all my 30lbs without exercising....and since I haven't noticed any difference between eating well and working out and eating well and NOT working out, I'm totally unmotivated.
I would say that I suspect this is age related! As you get older, you won't be able to lose the weight w/out exercise.
Trust me ... been there. And you will notice a difference in your stamina and strength if you stick with it over time.
Also, as I said above, there are many more benefits to working out than just losing weight. For me, realizing that lifting weights will help me not look like my grandmom did at 65, hunched over from osteoperosis. Doing regular cardio will keep me from having the mini-strokes that my other grandmother had at 62 and 64 because he bloodpressure was so high. Losing weight and being in shape will hopefully keep me from getting the diabetes that both my g'mothers, and my father, and my aunt, and my two uncles have/had.
But ...
... I also recognize that in my late 20s, I totally had no concept of any of those things. I was healthy, I could lose weight just by cutting out snacks, and the concept of those illnesses was sort of a hazy distant future. That all changed when my parents died while I was in my 30s. Suddenly 65 seemed awfully young to die.
Dunno. The truth is that no one can motivate you but you. And sometimes something has to happen to motivate you ... sometimes that thing has to be something bad or negative. I wish ... I really really really wish, that I'd known in my late 20s what I know now. I wish I'd never let myself get to the point that I did. I look at my body now and I know that had I been motivated 15 years ago, I'd not be having the struggles - body image, health, and everything else - that I'm having now. And there are times that I bitterly regret that I was not smart enough when I was in my 20s to do what I'm doing today. My life would have been much different, if I had.
FWIW.
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