Struggling to get fit

[GABaracus]

I’m currently around 5”8 and according to my scale I’m 11.8 stone (165.2 pounds).

Outside of walking for 30 mins to an hour each day? I’m struggling to really exercise. I use to do the regular walks often enough even before my episode anyway, but I was also putting all sorts of bad food into my body around this time too.

I also didn’t really start doing that till I was around 33. I started that to try and lose a bit of weight because I was a few stone overweight at that point and suffering from acid reflux.

I did start to eat more healthy, but for every healthy meal, at some point I would be on the junk food equally.

The combination of this lockdown and not being motivated enough to do any hard exercise by myself in the house is really frustrating.

I need to be around people/help and the gym etc for this to be able to have a chance of working.

It’s almost 2 weeks now since I got out of hospital.

Any advice?

[GABaracus]

That’s the thing, wouldn’t this mean doing it alone in my house? I also won’t have any gym equipment nor any cardio rehab team to help.

I mainly avoided the gym in the past, not just out of laziness but also a back injury I picked up which can be made worse with certain types of exercise.

[Hiyaall in reply to GABaracus]

Joe wicks on you tube not equipment needed

[GABaracus]

My only problem with walking as of late has been the weather.

When there’s rain and cold wind, it tires me out rather quickly. I don’t have anything for my face and yesterday it felt like my face was about to freeze, I had to put my face into my jacket.

Had a headache for a bit afterwards.

That’s something I’ve noticed, I feel the cold quite a bit more now than I did before.

[GABaracus]

What would I do though? As I said I don’t really feel motivated enough to do manual exercise alone in my house.

[russino1]

It’s not too dissimilar to someone who would like to give up smoking or drinking.

As in, unless they (you) really want to do it (make changes) then it won’t happen.

no amount of motivational messages from others will work over the long term. they’ll help in the immediate short term, but it has to be YOU who wants to make long term changes for it to happen.

I’d suggest writing down the reasons why you want to be fitter and healthier. make them as specific as you can. read them to yourself every morning.

As i say, ultimately unless YOU want it, it won’t happen.