I used to wonder what made people decide to start their fitness journey. Was there a "rock bottom" moment glancing in the mirror and not recognizing the person in the reflection? Did they happen to catch an infomercial with a high energy motivational speaker giving out his secrets to success? Was it a hospital visit, dating, or a career? I just couldn't figure it out until I realized every one of those things has happened to me and none of them ever panned out to a successful run. I would workout for six days and fall right back into old habits of eating bad and sitting marathons. What worked for me wasn't any great epiphany. It was as simple as this:
"Do you want to be fat? No. Then you know what you have to do."
I was sitting on the couch, I got up, popped in a video and got to work. The first workout was brutal. I was sweating, panting and fighting the urge to sit down. The whole time I kept saying to myself, "I don't want to be fat". That worked for me. I was able to stay motivated by the simple fact that I didn't want to be fat. It still works for me today.
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