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Help! I've fallen and I can't get up.

Ahhhr. I've been terrible lately at writing. I am sorry. I am sorry to you and I am sorry to me because it really means I'm off track.
I have been bouncing around a lot lately from different types of exercise and I thought that was a good thing. But, I haven't found I've gotten in a groove with anything in particular. I'd like to be focused on one thing and watching the progress in that area. So I am trying to decide what I like best right now, until I get into a better routine and then I can branch out. I want to look forward to my exercises, instead of feeling like they are taking away from my day. And if I really cut the crap, I need to just shit or get off the pot.
I am frustrated. I know that it's making all those little decisions add up that's going to make the big picture come into place, but I am just having a hard time with those little pieces. I started with no bread, and I felt good about that. But I know it's not quite enough. I feel like I've figured out all the emotional reasons I have gained weight, and also that I put myself last sometimes or a lot of the time, and that I don't always feel deserving but all this information has paralyzed me. I don't know what to do and so I stopped, dead in my tracks.
I am not at the point of kicking my own ass, and I need some help. It's grey, it's winter, I am have been busy at work and with raising my kids and I just can't seem to translate my hatred for fat pants into DOING SOMETHING about it. I was, I was doing great and then I got sick, and I fell right off and now it's like I can't get over it.
How can I want something so bad, and not be doing anything about it. It's like I feel like I've been trying so hard - in my head, that I'm exhausted from thinking it about it?
For those of you who have been there, or here - where I am right now - and done something about it, I want you to share with me some things that helped you. I need some advice.
Thanks.

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  1. CarlyDecember 3, 2010 at 7:40 AM

    Yesterdays great experience:
    Lately I've been going to Oranj, at least twice a week, plus hot yoga on Mondays. I go to the gym and I feel SO GOOD. But more often than not it's a struggle to just go. I wake up in the morning and say "Yes, Im going to killer abs and ass, then yoga tonight!"... but for some reason, by 2:30, I'm dreading it. I'm tired. I'm over worked, I'm feeling overwhelmed with the thought of fitting the gym in with the other responsibilities for the evening..... I'm sure you know the feeling to the millionth degree! So yesterday, instead of deciding to back out when the 2:30 blahs came around, I told 3 friends I would be there, and that I hoped they would join me. Then there was no turning back, I had committed. And I'm so glad I did! It's like you said in one of your past posts; just put the gym clothes on, then put your shoes on. baby steps out the door, that's all you need because when the the heart rate starts going and the blood starts flowing, you'll find what you were looking for. :)

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