My biggest problem lately is consistency.
I realized that when I posted my fitness goals as a reminder and could do nothing but look at them. At one point in time I was doing a lot to work toward my goals. But lately? Nothing. Somehow the fitness aspect of my life just slipped out of my hands once again.
It’s amazing that I so easily give up exercise when I do in fact really like it. But give me a few weeks without access to a gym and I just give up. I’ll walk outside a few times, but then I’ll just let the desire fade for the rest of a week. I might even have a total gym staring me in the face every waking moment of my day (literally, I do) but I still don’t workout as much as I should.
I have ever opportunity too. I have plenty of free time that could be used to workout. I have a few hours each day I could easily devote to exercise. But I haven’t been doing that every dat. Months ago that would have been easy for me to do. Now? It’s not something I have been doing. I’m inconsistent.
I’m not sure why I’m so inconsistent with my workouts. Exercise is part of my whole Operation Sexification mission, because a healthy body is a strong and sexy one. Exercise is part of my bigger health journey. Exercise is what keeps my emotions and happiness in check for the most part. It’s the key to everything, really. Yet I easily let it fall to the wayside.
A few months on, a few months really dedicated, then a few months off. It seems to be a pattern with me. Even though I love being active I somehow manage to find myself time and time again getting to a point where I am not active or exercising enough. Taking days (or when it stretches to weeks) off really messes with my body and mind. It doesn’t do anything good for me, yet I let it happen.
I just need some regular exercise. Even if that is just walking for 30 minutes every day. The key here for me is EVERY day. I’m at the point where I can’t skip days and take days off. Especially not the three or four days between exercise that sometimes I’ve been taking. No, for me I need to exercise every day.
It frustrates me that I’m not consistent like I should be.
It frustrates me so I’m going to work on that. 30 minutes of something every day. At least until I leave Oregon in July. (Because all bets are off on that roadtrip cross country.)
How about you? Are you consistent with your workouts or, like me, is that something you need to work on?
I have become more and more consistent. I know that I can’t continue to reach my goals without it, but with three kids under 10 its tricky. I tried to work it in every day, but it is difficult. I have reached a happy medium, found that I have to schedule days on and days off. It’s working for now. If I overschedule myself, I’m less likely to do it. I get discouraged and I slack off. RIght now I’m in an upswing, I’m feeling good and I’m hoping I can keep it up.
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I’m lucky to be very consistent with my workouts. That’s one thing I do not skimp on. Mostly because the food part of healthy living has been my struggle. I know if I just keep working out on a regular basis, the food “Slip ups” won’t do too much damage.
A tip I have is to have a structured workout plan. Take a class that’s 2 days a week. Or have specific days each week that you workout NO MATTER WHAT! I swim on Fri nights and Sunday mornings no matter what. I almost never deviate from that and that keeps me from slipping from the routine.
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Good tip Lisa. Generally when I’m a gym member I’m better at consistency because I take classes or have a workout buddy who goes if I go. It’s when I’m on my own that I’m so inconsistent! Having days you workout no matter what is a good idea. Well, for the next few weeks I’m doing something every day no matter what!
I was just reading another blog post about this very issue! I think it *is* hard to stay consistent, but I like to remind people to start small when you’re building or rebuilding an exercise habit. Instead of feeling like you have to go to the gym every day, make a goal like yours: 30 minutes of intentional exercise per day.
It really helps to make it fun. Do you love to dance? Do it. Run? Do that. Whatever activities you enjoy and look forward to, try to make those your workouts.
Also, try asking a friend to join you and schedule your walks/runs together. It’s harder to flake out on someone else than on yourself. (Sad, but true – at least for me!)
I totally get this struggle, too, and my best advice is that the only way to win it forever is to never give up!
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I am trying for five days a week, but am having a really hard time staying consistent with it. Yesterday I restarted the Shred, and this morning am so sore that I couldn’t get myself to do it again. I texted my husband and told him I am going to do it tonight – normally I do my workouts first thing in the morning because otherwise I just don’t do it. I wish I had a gym to go to, because I feel like that would help me to stay consistent. I just can’t afford it.
.-= Morgan´s last blog ..Shredded =-.
It’s definitely something I struggle with… And like you, I actually enjoy the exercise once I’m in the swing of things, but getting started again after a long period of inactivity is proving to be quite hard. Still, I will get there!
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I think part of the reason I like to train for things is that it helps me be consistent. When I knew I wasn’t going to be able to run anymore because of an injury, I signed up for a sprint triathlon almost immediately so that I would be forced to swim and bike.
Also, the gym membership thing is definitely true for me because I hate wasting money. But I haven’t paid for a gym for almost 2 years. Planning out my workouts for the week has helped a lot since I quit the gym (especially since I like making lists and crossing things off when I have finished them).
P.S. I’m sure making a move across the country would thwart almost anyone’s workout schedule. You have a new city and life to explore!
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Yeah, moving a lot is one of the reasons I get thrown off my workout schedule. I’ve moved 8 times in the last year. ;) So I have reasons, but I don’t want them to be excuses, if that makes sense. I’m excited to get to New Zealand because I will be there for an entire year and can get some sort of consistency going! :)
I was able to be very consistent for several years, doing stuff on my own like running and strength training DVDs. Then I started kickboxing classes and really like that structure (as Lisa mentioned). But then it all sort of fell apart when I started not feeling well (although at the time I didn’t realize it). Now that I am feeling better, I am more consistent but also recognize that, for whatever reason, having the structure of classes really does help. So right now it’s the two KBs: kickboxing and kettlebells. One other thing I’ve learned to do is NOT associate any negative emotion with missing a workout. If I miss one, I miss one no big deal. If I miss several, so what. Even when I was feeling my worst (this past winter) I was doing what I could (two or three times a week).
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I so know what you mean… up until two months ago I was at the gym four hours a week during my lunch hour but then a colleague went out on disability and I had to pick up her work. Bang went my lunch hour. But now she is back and I just cannot get back into the routine. I know all I have to do is do it one time and that will get me back in the swing – but it’s doing it that one time… :-(
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I used to be just like you about exercise and I didn’t know how to make it a part of my life. Then last year, I joined a challenge where I was supposed to be active every day for 30 minutes for just one month. I decided to make my activity walking, even if I felt like it wasn’t really “real” exercise. I completed the challenge and I’ve never looked back. I now exercise 6 days a week and I’ve increased my intensity, lengthened my workouts and added new activities. But, I think the key for me was that initial challenge and giving myself permission to do an activity that wasn’t a huge reach for me. If I had tried running or even walking fast, I never would have completed the first 30 days.
I have recently made the change to working out every day. I credit a few things for this miracle. One, I stopped thinking that it only counted as a work out if it was 1 and 1/2 hours of hot yoga or an hour of running or something else ridiculous. Taking the dog on a 30 minute walk totally counts. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Two, I made the decision to work out every day. For whatever weird, random reason it’s harder for me to do something a few times a week than it is for me to do it every day. If I know I work out every day, then I know what to expect every single day. If I work out 3 times a week, it’s a constant internal struggle (is today the day; I’ll just do it tomorrow, etc.).
Three, I made the connection between how I FEEL versus how I LOOK. I have always exercised to lose weight, to get sexier, etc. In fact I never believed people that claimed they exercised for other reasons (stress relief, energy, etc.). But it is so true. When I saw the connection between my mood and energy when I exercised versus when I didn’t, that was a huge motivator for me. Why it’s taken me 28 years to realize, I don’t know. But let me tell you, I feel so much better.
Good luck!
Exercising to regulate how I feel is actually my main motivation. It keeps my body in check and makes me happier (literally). If I don’t exercise my mood deteriorates quickly. That’s why at most I can go a week with nothing before I realize I’m miserable and need exercise. But I’d like to make it more consistent than that! Being in a good mood is a great reason to exercise. ;)
Your cross-country trip will be such fun. We did one last year from Georgia to Oregon, and it was the most fabulous thing – especially for an Irish person like me! But you’re right about the lack of exercise. We did stop in some places and do mildly active stuff, but there were a lot of hours spent sitting in our jeep doing nothing more sporty than raising our fingers to point at the great scenery.
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Yeah, those two weeks are just a loss for exercise. It’s not going to happen since some of our days are like 12 hours of driving. I’m okay with that, because I’m going to exercise consistently until then and then again after. But it’s stuff like that that is always throwing me off! I love my life but it’s not exactly one that is convenient to consistency in ANYTHING. ;)
I know just what you mean. If I let myself slide one day, then I start to slide the next day, and so on. I have difficulty with the concept of “once in a while”!
Right now my issue isn’t with exercise, but with food- I’m having a difficult time consistently eating proper portion sizes. If it’s not one, then it’s the other, it seems! Ah well.
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It has taken me years to get a routine but I still fall off every now and then. I think the key is to find stuff you lIKE to do that you find enjoyable. I know that can be hard in the exercise realm for some but it’s true.
Also first thing in the morning seems to help me alot.
My advice — look for a local walking group and start going. If you go regularly, you’ll make friends and people will start to count on you to be there. I have run with basically the same few people at least 2x/week (usually 3x/week) for over 5 years now. I would guess we have met each other at 5:15 or 5:30 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and many Sundays over 500 times now. Our group has changed a little, one person moved away in Jan., one joined about 2 years ago, one took about 6 months off during the course of 2 pregnancies. But they are the key to my consistency. They’re friends and I love getting to talk to them for an hour in the morning while we run. I make myself get up and be there on time, b/c I don’t want them to have to wait (we all respect each others’ time) and I don’t want them to worry (like the time they ran toward my house and found me stopped with a flat tire). I feel like they’ve been through so much with me, and I with them — some of us have fallen in or out of love, gotten married or divorced, experienced deaths, given birth, changed jobs, etc. But the time we discuss all of that is while running b/c our lives just don’t let us sit on the phone for an hour a couple nights per week. As commenters above have noted, the heart of the matter might be that I like this. It’s not a chore (though many a time I’ve wished we could just stop running and sit over breakfast) (and actually, in the early stages of 1 pregnancy (before she even knew), one friend was constantly asking us to slow down and then to walk). I’m guessing since you’re in a new town, there’s not a good buddy that comes to mind, so look for an organized walking group/program. It will be worth it. On the days I don’t run w/ my crew, I do an organized meet-up type exercise boot camp, 3 days a week now for 3.5 years (except a few vacations and a couple sprained ankles). And I have a rest day every week, which is important for me. But for me, the group accountability is the magic key to consistency.
I’m always consistent with my workouts WHEN I have a goal in my mind. Focusing on specifics makes it much easier for me to get off the computer and get to the gym.
.-= Tony the Pink Panda´s last blog ..I Am Like a Vampire =-.
The hardest thing about weight-loss is the consistency it requires. The discipline…
I don’t want to be doing this weight-loss thing forever. So I’m always working at consistency.
.-= Alexia´s last blog ..Show and Tell Wednesday (Weigh-In Included) =-.
Consistency is probably the most vital habit to develop. Also the toughest. I’m always one bad decision away from being inconsistent which is tough but such is life!
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Fairly consistent up to this point. I feel sort of lost if I don’t go to the gym. Maybe you should look into doing some kick ass co-ed sports like kickball or dodgeball (oh man I love me some dodgeball).
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I’m predictably consistent. Sundays off, workouts the rest of the week. It helps that I’m training for the triathalon now, but the diversity of the workouts actually make me look forward to exercising more than before. If I miss more than 2 days in a row, I get progressively tired and grumpy. No one needs that! :)
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That’s pretty much how I am. 2 days off and I’m grumpy. Stretch it to a week and I’m pretty miserable. I’m amazed at how often I do that and just exist unhappily!
I find going with my nerdiness and making up a workout calendar keeps me consistent. I only skip if I am honestly feeling overtrained.
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I actually think I might make myself a fitness calendar and give myself gold stars or something. Yes, I am that person. I should have been a kindergarten teacher.
I feel like I’m PRETTY consistent. One thing that’s helped me is just to think “MOVE” instead of “WORK OUT.” Like, I just need to MOVE every day. I WANT to move every day…it just FEELS GOOD! So it’s easier for me to go for that 30 minute walk if I think, “Rachel, you need to move” rather than “Rachel, you need to work out.” Also, setting goals/rewards def helps me stick to things. As soon as I make it a goal I WILL NOT SKIP but if it’s not a goal I’m like ehhh…no big deal.
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I’ve always been a passively active person so I don’t get a lot of purposeful exercise in. I ride the bus everywhere, and with bus riding theres always a little extra walking involved. Its kept my body capable, and I think allowed me to delude myself into believing that I’m not fat or obese because I can still do things like touch my toes and walk miles at a time without feeling like I’m about to die.
Getting purposeful exercise in, the kind where I make a point to get myself out of breath, or walk up a ridiculous amount of stairs usually doesn’t happen. I’m working on it though.
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It is such a mental game, this weight loss, eat healthy stuff. It is a lifestyle change, a life long thing. I have always said that consistency both in better eating & exercising or just moving is key.
I know you know that I don’t have probs with this Mary. Even when I was working long hours. Do you have a calender or a place you schedule stuff? Make it part of that.. make an appt. with yourself each day to do something because you are worth it! :-)
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I’m consistent, if by consistent we mean 5-6 days a week with one of those days likely being my minimum (30 minutes.) I keep a little calendar notebook and jot a note when I get my exercise in for the day or when I take a planned rest day. It feels sooooo good to flip the pages and see my little scribblings. I don’t like blank spaces. :(
Just thought I’d through it out there. I’m not sure if something like that would work for you. Not everyone in the world gets off on checkmarks. :)
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Haha. I do. I’m a list maker and love to scribble on things. I’m thinking about making myself a little calendar to doodle and fill up with checkmarks or whatever. ;)
I have troubles with consistency as well, so I hope you will read the following thoughts in that context:
– What helps me most with consistency is planning ahead when I know that a change in conditions is going to make it more difficult for me to maintain my usual habits.
– It sounds like you have already chosen to abandon your goal of exercising consistently during your upcoming trip. Why? You can incorporate exercise as a priority during your trip, if you decide to. Even if you are driving 12 hour days with your boyfriend, you can choose to include daily exercise. If you take 3 pit stops during a day, walk around the
rest area for ten minutes each time, and there you have 30 minutes of exercise. It will wake you up for the driving ahead. Or you could plan your trip around places you would like to explore by walking. How about some stretches you can do in the car while
you are in the passenger seat? Or bring along some light weights you can use for bicep curls in the car. Do you have a laptop computer which can play DVDs? You could buy a yoga DVD and do 10 minutes of it with your boyfriend each evening to unwind. (Yoga can be very sexy.) You have the option of choosing to plan ahead and make exercise a priority during your adventure. Even if the exercise is a symbolic 10 minutes, you are reinforcing the idea that YOU CHOOSE to exercise consistently no matter how conditions in your life change day to day.
– There are some things which you can do consistently now. These might include: The work you do to make money. Brushing your teeth. Washing your clothes. Paying your bills. None of these are particularly fun, but you do manage to do them consistently.
If you take a look at those things, you might get some ideas of what conditions allow you to be consistent, and then apply that to exercise. For example, most people show up for work every day consistently because they want to maintain their income. If they don’t show up, they don’t get paid. So even if they don’t feel like it, people go to work.
Is there some way you can set up similar conditions for exercising? You could decide that you can only have sugar on the weekend if you have met your exercise goal for the week (work for pay) — and then give your roommate the sugar, so you will have to be accountable to her. Or only allow yourself to communicate with your boyfriend if you have done your daily exercise. Or, as people have suggested, find the conditions which would make you HATE to NOT exercise, like finding an activity you absolutely love to do.
– Something I have found helpful is keeping a daily journal related to my goals, where every night I write down the answer to the question: “Today, what have I made more important than my goal to [exercise daily]?” My answers might include: spending time on the internet, helping someone else achieve one of their goals instead of focusing on my own, taking care of X event which felt like a crisis, giving in to pressure from others who don’t have healthy habits, etc. The point is that writing it down forces me to be honest with myself about what I am making most important each day. Lots of times I say eating healthy is my top goal, but I let daily chores take priority and I don’t take the time to cook the foods I want to be eating. Often I find that what I believe is most important to me is not in fact the most important thing to me as evidenced by my actions. Writing it down makes it harder for me to lie to myself about my true priorities. If I were in your position, I would write: “I am choosing to make having fun during my trip with my boyfriend more important than my goal of making exercise a consistent part of my daily life. I am choosing to ignore the fact that I alone am responsible for maintaining my personal health and well-being throughout my life. The trip is not forcing me to abandon my goals. I am choosing to use the trip as an opportunity to stop, for a period of two weeks, pursuing my goal of exercising consistently. And I’m glad to have the excuse. I hope I will find a way to resume exercising later, but if not, I am willing to take that risk in order to really enjoy myself.” Then even if you do no exercise for two weeks, at least you are reinforcing the idea that YOU are the one in control of your choices in life.
In a similar vein, I have been wondering what you could do to ensure that you can and will eat healthy food during your trip. It is so easy to just stop and eat fast food. But you could choose to prepare ahead of time so that you will have healthy food in the car
with you. For example: Buy a small cooler, and stop at grocery stores along the way, and fill the cooler with fresh foods. Use the internet to research grocery stores and other places along your route where you can buy healthy foods. Find farmer’s markets or farm stands and stop at them. Make a list of healthy snacks which travel well and stock up on them. I’d be curious to hear what ideas you and others have about this, because one of the hardest things for me is trying to eat healthily when I am not in my own home. And it can seem nearly impossible to eat healthily if you eat out at restaurants or fast food places in this country!
I’ve not yet decided how I’m going to go about the roadtrip and eating healthy. I know that in a lot of places I’m not going to go the healthy route and I’m perfectly okay with that. My last roadtrip when I was by myself was really easy to eat healthy and I did a great job. But I’m opting for the awesomely epic roadtrip to be an experience and that experience is going to include some fattening and awesome food.
If you need to be healthy on a roadtrip just take your examples and actually do them. It’s not that hard. If that’s hard for you then it’s only because you make it. There are grocery stores everywhere and you can buy and eat raw fruits and veggies easily. You can also eat pretty healthily in most restaurants AND fast food places. Most restaurants have a healthy or lite menu and at fast food places they have the same + salads. Just don’t use the dressing and you have a pretty healthy + low cal meal. It’s only impossible because you are setting yourself up with that belief. It’s really not that hard!
I can guarantee you’ll be doing 30 minutes of SOMETHING every day from July 3-6th. And it will be hecka fun. Just ask Shannon.
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I figured that would be the case. July 3 – 10 is pretty much covered as far as exercise goes!! :)
There’s a fine line between “consistent” and “obsessed” and it’s one that many people have trouble with. I think you have to be consistent enough to develop the habit, but not obsessed enough to feel stress in the even that you fail to carry out your plan on a given day. For me, my main exercise goal is 30-60 minutes of walking at least 5 days a week, preferably 6. If I make it 4 days, that’s okay. If I’m sick or injured and can’t, that’s okay, too.
I think that if you can’t stick with a plan, the plan is probably too much for your at this time. Setting the goal too high is a common mistake for folks who really want to apply themselves. I’d start smaller and build up – 15 minutes a day, 4 days a week, then expand from there. It gets a lot easier to add in more and more once the basic activity has been incorporated into your daily routine. Don’t set yourself up for failure by setting the bar too high. Set yourself up for success by setting it so low you can’t fail and then keep gradually moving it up. It has worked well for me (I started with a 15 minute goal, every other day).
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I’m fairly consistent (3-5x a week). If I don’t workout my brain doesn’t function as well. In other words, I’m prone to depression so it’s either pills or take care of myself so I workout and eat healthy. Sort of like if I don’t want cavities, I brush my teeth.
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I’m not consistent yet either but it is something I’m working on. I really need to make sure to get my workouts in, otherwise I can go for weeks without anything.
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for me consistency was the key to my success and to my maintaining (16 yrs)
SO MANY PEOPLE told me I wasnt doing enough to lose weight—but I just did what I could day in and out. year in and out. hopefully DECADE IN AND OUT.
something.
everyday.
not for all that long :)
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Wow, I can really relate to this post, I am exactly the same. I started running and did it really well for three weeks, then stopped, then after a couple of weeks started again off and on for another week or so.
My dieting is usually the same too although I am becoming more consistent with my diet.
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We haven’t missed a scheduled workout in 15 months (and that because before that they weren’t scheduled.) I plan our workouts a month in advance, hang it on the front door where we can always see it and that way we know what to expect for the next day and I plan my food around it too. (A little more calories when I’m doing something more intense like Tae Bo that burns double of say low impact aerobics) I spent 4 years waiting for this mystery motivation that was supposed to overtake me and make me WANT to exercise. All that did was add another 100+ lbs to my already obese body. It really is as easy as ‘just do it.’ That used to irritate the heck out of me when I was in denial that it was that easy but it just is. Doesn’t mean you *want* to do it or you can’t think of something else you’d rather be doing but when it’s done, it’s done and you can move on feeling better about yourself instead of worse.
I’ve been pretty consistent with my exercise for the most part and inconsistent losing weight. In fact, I’ve maintained the same weight for three months. While that would be a wonderful thing if I were at goal, I am not at goal. Time to get moving a bit more and get this weight off!
.-= Anonymous Fat Girl´s last blog ..Ever meet anyone that regretted moving their ass? Me neither. =-.
Consistency is TOTALLY a problem with me. I’ll have weeks where I go to the gym 3 times (which is good for me) and walk around the block a few nights, then there are weeks were I just think, “…bleh” and do nothing. The 30 minutes of SOMETHING rule is a great one and one I’ve tried to stick to, but I let myself get away with NOT doing it, even if I set it as a goal!
I have a horrible time Getting Started. Once I’m going, I usually get the exercise in, it’s just the getting started part that is so hard. The only thing that works for me is posting the day’s exercise on my blog, and forcing myself to come back and mark off whether I’ve done it or failed. Being publicly accountable.
I know Crabby McSlacker (from http://www.crankyfitness.com) wrote a couple posts about traveling cross country and fitting exercise in along the way. I’ll have to see if I can dig up those posts.
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The getting started bit is usually the hardest for everyone. But once you get past that it’s easy (well, relatively)!
Well, most of my problem is because I’m not consistent with anything. But hopefully that will change in August. ;)
I love you too.
Ugh when I was on vacation and had to go in a car everywhere I felt so BLEH. Not just my body and my apetite but even my mood. I definitely need some sort of moving around each day, or I get depressed. Since I don’t have a car and live in hilly SF, I pretty much am forced to exercise each day even if I didn’t want to. Even if I skip the gym, I have to hike a giant hill (im not exaggerating…I’ll show you if you have time when youre in SF) just to get to and from my house. The one thing I am good at is consistently getting exercise. I might not work out as hard as I should every day, but I am almost always at the gym every week day, and unless I literally don’t leave my house, I am walking and hiking around. One thing I love about this city! I just really like working out, since it’s fun, its not hard to motivate myself. If I didn’t have a gym, and lived in a car place though, I’d almost definitely be like you, having a hard time with it. Good luck with that.
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I used to give up exercise if I had a week’s pause, but these days I’m so addicted to yoga that I can’t go a week without :)
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ugh, I struggle with consistency as well. Once I’m in the loop of habit I’m good but if I slip up once I start slipping up all the time.
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I used to be so consistent to the point that my kids knew when I was going to exercise. We share the den. They play their video games and I exercise in it. They automatically knew when I got home it was workout time & they had to figure out something to do for 45 mins.
Now not so much. For the past 2-3 weeks my workouts are extremely inconsistent and it’s actually very frustrating. I wish I could get back my consistency.