I'm not a morning person either. Never thought I would want to workout early, but I started doing it recently. What worked for me was saying I couldn't eat breakfast until I worked out. I gotta have my breakfast pretty quickly so it motivates me to workout and get it over with. And I've discovered that I really like getting my exercise done so early. It makes me feel good and motivates me to stay more on track throughout the day.

Mornings will never happen...not in this lifetime.

Ok. Got my alarm set. My new position for the phone. And 2 puppy dogs sharing the bed (until my husband comes in lol). Wish me luck! 530 is in 7 hours.

It is great to see you trying to get back in the game! Best of luck and do let us know how you get on.

I exercised in the evening after work for th first 2.5 years of my process. Over the last 6 months I switched to a morning workout (am sipping coffee now waiting to be awake enough to drive to work, where my gym is). I never - and I mean never - thought I would be able to be a morning exerciser. I am a firm believer in "the best time to exercise is the time you actually will do it." however, you might have a reason you want to switch to a morning schedule, as I did.

I made the change because the evening schedule was hard on my partner. I was getting home quite late - it's not easy for me to knock off work at a specific time every day; if I'm getting something done I'd rather just keep working on it. And so between getting myself out of work, getting the workout, and getting home, it could easily be 8:30 or 9 before I was serving dinner (I do the cooking here). That was fine with me but tough on my partner, who got very hungry - and consequently very grumpy and unpleasant to be around - even if she tried to eat a snack in the early evening.

So I volunteered to try switching to the morning, just to regularized our dinner time a little earlier. My partner, like me, hadn't thought I would ever be a morning exerciser. But I wanted to try to fix the evening problem. I said I would commit to doing it for a month and see how difficult and painful it was.

Once I committed for that reason, it just became a matter of discipline. Now it was something I had to do, so I did it. Sure I would have preferred to sleep in the morning but I just got up and made coffee and got on with my day because I had committed to doing that.

After a month I had got used to it. I still don't go to bed as early as I should given that I am now getting up at 6, but i stayed up too late before, too. And sleep evens itself out - after a few nights of not quite enough sleep I am too tired to stay up late anyhow!

In short, my advice - just like you do with your eating plan, if you have a reason to want to exercise in the morning, then commit. Commit to the change for a month, no matter what. At the end of the month, evaluate and see whether it's something you just can't sustain, or it's not so bad after all.

Maybe you could set just a 10min workout for the morning, and you'd be more inclined to do it. That's what I'm doing at the moment, and slowly increasing if I feel good.

I love exercising in the morning, I work pretty late and since I do it in the morning I don't have to drag my exhausted self to the gym at night. I find works best because I take a class - the Bar Method - which I have to sign up for, so I'm literally locked in to going, no excuses.

I hate working out in the morning, but I woul like to try it.

It's easier when you just do it and get the workout over with. Right now, I end up working out at 8 pm earliest. And after my workout I feel som much more relaxed. I'd like to have that feeling in the morning.

This whole thread has inspired me to try it as well. I am such a night owl that I am a night shift person. I work from 7pm to 8am so working out in the morning is actually my evening and vice versa. I tried working out after work but I am just too exhausted. Working out BEFORE work just might be the added kick I need.