Staying Motivated

[ixico 24]

Hello all,

I was wondering how all of you keep motivated with exercising?

I love how working out makes me feel but I don't like the idea of doing it beforehand. I know so many people that say that it's normal but I go through slumps where the idea of working out makes me tired and no amount of reminding myself how I will feel after will convince me enough to just go do it.

I have a Fitbit and I compete with people at work during the week for steps, but they aren't very competitive and I can win the challenges by just doing 5k steps a day. Which doesn't seem near enough to qualify as exercise.

What are your thoughts? What keeps you going?

Thanks for reading

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[Healthy_life2 8,324]

here is a link to motivation that has been posted on the forum. Hope it helps.

http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/373997-suggestions-and-motivation/?hl=%2Bmotivation#entry4227663

[smg 471]

Typically, it's that competition with friends and family members that motivates me, but on days where you just don't feel like doing it, but know that you have to, I like to put in the headphones, turn on Netflix and before I know it, I'm a couple of episodes into whatever I'm watching and just about done before I know it!

It was tough at first because I went to the gym without a specific plan and would often find myself getting there and either wasting time looking for what I wanted to do or just walking around wasting time. Once it registered I was getting very little benefit from that, I built a regimented workout from workoutlabs.com and used that to keep me on track with the exercises I wanted to do and based on the equipment that was available to me. As I get farther into working out, I can increase the amounts or difficulties of the exercises. It's really been a great tool for me and they also have some free workouts to try, but the customization is worth the money....

[bini120 163]

The truth is that motivation is fleeting and you'll never have it consistent control of it - you need to find another way to get yourself to work out. I get it 'out of the way' in the mornings before work and try to see working out as brushing my teeth: it's something I have to do even if I don't really enjoy doing it. I also line up my favorite podcasts to listen to while I'm working out so I have something to look forward to.