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Originally Posted by YTWCKF  Thanks
That is what fat looks like?? YUK!!
I will take all this into consideration and I will admit I lost sight of my goal for a minute there.
Back to the basement and the bike I guess, I will see if I can keep it going this week.
Again thanks |
Yeah, I look at that picture at least once a week for motivation, and even thought about posting a picture of it on my
It seems like you are getting bored with the bike, is there anything else you can do to spice things up a bit? Hiking? Walking? Swim? Elliptical machine? Health club? Maybe move the bike to a different room or a different setting like say to the front yard of the playboy mansion?
Adding a TV by the bike?
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Originally Posted by Audrey Eww that's gross. I can just invision it under my belly skin. :eek4:
As for motivation...
This is the first time I've been really successful with loosing weight, and I've been 'dieting' for almost ever. The thing that really motivated me was that my fiance's older brother's fiance (god, what a mouthfull) was on Jenny Craig and lost about 20 lbs. She looked awesome (she's about 5'2 I think so that much weight off of her frame looked amazing), and I got pretty jealous when my fiance told me she looked slimmer.
I think that's most likely the pettiest reason in the world to be a healthier person, but it's been the best motivation I could ask for.
That was months ago though, and I think now my motiviation is to reach my goal because I now know it's possible through a healthy diet and exercise. I think I just want to prove myself right (and be able to say I lost 50 lbs!). |
Ouch, that's a rough way to get your motivation, but you know that you can do this, you're already off to a great start, this should be cake for you!
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Originally Posted by MikeB Go outside, take a walk. Walk up a local wilderness trail or have some kind of other fun. If you get stuck in a rut just doing exercise bike in the basement you will stall eventually or get bored and quit. I have a guy a work who had gastric bypass who swears he works out diligently on his exercise bike. He also reads a book while doing so, how can you read while you're working hard? I have no idea and it's not working for him as he's now gaining weight again.... Just something to think about, always be pushing your body, it will adapt and then stop changing. You are stronger than you think you are and as you do things that are harder, they get easier.  |
Read while doing Cardio? No way.
IMO if you can focus enough to read you aren't working hard enough. I can barely breathe by the time I'm done!
Something I've done to speed things up, is I went from doing 60 minutes of non stop good paced cardio to 20 minutes of HIIT. Just the change in routine made it more bearable, and getting done 40 minutes sooner was appealing as well.