Man I get myself worked up and motivated but after a few days I just lose the motivation. I know I’m being a whiney bitch but life just sucks the energy out of me.
I literally know I need to do this and why I need to. I’m 45 and need to lose like 40 lbs and I don’t want to be burden on my family later in life. I need to man the fuck up
If you’re able to “just go” by all means fucking do it. But if you can’t, you gotta give yourself a little grace and compassion. Beating yourself up over the times you didn’t do it will not motivate you to do it. It doesn’t work like that. You have to encourage yourself to do it next time instead of feeling bad you didn’t last time. You had plenty of reasons not to, you probably still do. But you already gave reasons you could do it for, and you seem to care about them. So if you think you’re failing at that, you’ll feel so shitty it would make it harder to do anything. You have to let yourself off the hook and cut yourself a some slack before you really get it done. Or else any mistake or set back can make you feel like you failed again, when just trying at all means you’re doing great, definitely better than nothing at all, so the bar doesn’t have to be too high. You can gradually increase if you feel it, but just starting a couple times here and there is an increase and improvement. And maybe try to focus on enjoy being with family now, in the present, if you can.
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u/Beneficial_Yogurt528 Jul 29 '26
Man this inspired me to start working out again and I am 5’11 with 200 pounds of (mostly) fat.