Okay gents, after an overextended hiatus, I am back on the workout (and blogging) horse again! In the past several months, I let life get in the way. I made excuses. I stopped eating right. I did some exercising, but I wasn’t pushing myself – I was just going through the motions. The gym I belonged to was getting too expensive for my budget so I let my membership run out. Needless to say, all my hard work began to reverse itself. Before I knew it, I was getting rapidly out of shape again and had put on about 15 pounds.
It took me a bit to get motivated. The excuses kept coming – “I can’t afford to join a gym.” “I’ll pay but I won’t end up going.” “I’m too tired when I get home from work.” “The gym is always so crowded when I get there.” I was constantly sabotaging myself over and over again.
So, what happened? One day I woke up, looked in the mirror, got a bit disgusted and made a commitment to do something about it. I was not happy with what I saw, and knew that I was the only one that could do anything about it.
Coincidentally, my buddy’s fiancée had gotten him a 3 month membership to a different local gym so I went and checked it out. It wasn’t overcrowded during after work prime time (5-7pm), fairly clean, had everything I needed, and I’d get a discount for joining with a friend. So I decided to go for it and sign up for a year membership.
That was 5 weeks and 12 pounds ago, and I haven’t looked back! So how did I do it? I did it by slowly creating new, healthy, permanent lifestyle habits. I’m going to revisit everything I did to get where I am and what I plan on doing to keep going. Maybe I’ll even help you to find your motivation, too.
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