I jumped off my diet due to me being a big baby and quickly reached 375 lbs (yes, my weight and not my dead lifts).
I started back on my diet the day after labor day and I’ve dropped 33 lbs off so far. I want to start back to the gym this Monday - but for some reason I just have no motivation. I don’t know, maybe I’m just meant to be one of those fatbodies you see floating around Wal Mart… with no butt… or love life…
Fuck it, I’m hitting the gym starting Monday…
On another topic, I have started to close in my fathers car port to make my parents a closed in garage/family room/laundry room… The work is coming along nicely and that is one hell of a workout right there (up, down, up, down, sit, stand, swing swing swing, etc…)… got a bad case of muscle ache just from that work.
Anyway - I’m still alive. Just not the most motivated person in the world right now.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
What about finding a training partner?
The camaraderie and shared motivation can be huge.
33 lb. is nothing to blink at.[/quote]
This x2
It’s hard to duck out on someone who is holdng you accountable. Remember that a habit takes about 21 days to form. You just need to force yourself into a new habit for a short time and then it is like breathing or eating, its just what you do. Except no excuses from that little voice inside your head telling you all the bull shit on why you shouldn’t or can’t train and eat right today. Lock that little bastard in a small room in the back of your mind and pay him no attention when he starts complaining that it is to hard, to tired, or whatever lie he trys to feed you. Beat his ass whith rep after rep until he STFU…
Colin, i didn’t know the 21 day rule but it makes a shed load of sense. I wonder if there is a similar rule to how many habit changes anyone can make at once ie…try to do it all, make all the changes at once and maybe achieve none…maybe one at a time and succeed.
Now most of the time as a genuine newbie around here i quite happily sit at the back of the class ,stfu and listen, on this one though i would like to pipe up with some solid ideas because this is where i was a couple of years ago.
What i did, and still reckon works, was to make one change at a time…but really make that change.
First was simply spending a lot of time walking and not driving to work.
Second was reducing gradually the high carb snack diet that i was living on.
Then with above learning to eat properly–real meals.
Only then did i start experimenting with exercise and i didn’t even consider the gym but started playing in the outdoors more–ok a bit too cardio based for waht i know now but with some good ideas like : walk a bit, run a bit, walk fast up a hard slope–then do some dips on a tree branch, try or some press ups etc.
Maybe where i am getting at and colin is saying…is get one thing nailed at one time and build on it…when things go pear shaped as they do…to have the ability to fall back on new patterns and habits.
For me : when things are shitty (at work) :
Go for a walk
Have a proper meal
Do some pull ups on the bar outside the back door.