No motivation to exercise?

Question

I have no idea what's wrong with me. I had my fourth baby at the end of June. I gained 34 lbs. and have lost 27 lbs so far. So that puts me at 127 lbs. at 5 ft tall. I want to be in the 98 lb - 105 lb range. I had back-to-back babies, so I have the 11 more lbs I gained, plus the last 16 lbs I had left over from the thrid baby, lol.

After my third, I fit into EVERYTHING! Now I sit and cry when I can't get my 'fat jeans' past my thighs. You think that would be motivation enough to exercise, but no. The first few weeks I was very persisant with my exercise routine. All of a sudden I've gotten lazy.

What do you do that motivates you to get up and exercise? And if any of you have had babies before, why is it that after my third baby, my 'belly pooch' and the wrinkliness went away completely. And now after my fourth, it's back and not showing any signs of getting better, lol? And my arms were so tiny during the pregnancy, now they continue waving to ppl looong after I've stopped, lol. Seriously, wtF?? LOL.

Yeah, I guess I needed to vent, too.

Answer 1

Congratulations on your baby!  And congratulations too on the 27 pounds you've lost.  That's a lot of progress toward your weight loss goal.  You can't reasonably expect progress to come faster.  When people lose weight faster than that,  they tend to lose muscle mass along with the fat, which makes it harder to keep weight off in the future (since muscle raises your metabolism).

I'm a guy, so I've never experienced weight gain from pregnancy.  But I will say this about my motivation.  The times when my fitness goals were to lose weight, to lose fat, or to put on muscle mass, I generally ended up getting frustrated.  I do much better when my goals have to do with what my body can do, like being able to run three miles without stopping to walk, or being able to squat 20 more pounds.  Maybe it would be easier to motivate yourself if you set an athletic goal, rather than a weight goal or an appearance goal?  If you improve what your body can do, you're sure to end up looking better.

Answer 2

come on darling,you gotta look HOT this Christmas,so dont be ignorant..go for a run and do some pilates once you are back home

Answer 3

congratulations on your baby =)

Motivation to exercise is a problem everyone faces at some point, I took a year break from it once and it was basically because I was not motivated anymore.

Motivation is hard to get back, what I had to do was force myself to work out every night, it became routine and I started to enjoy it soon after I got used to doing it every night. I guess you could say it's like a train, it takes a while to get it started, but once it gets started it doesn't stop very easily.

It's kind of embarrassing but what used to make me work out(when i was in highschool/college) was I would watch Bruce Lee movies and think "wow i want to be toned like that" lol... maybe there is someone that might inspire you to get where you want to be?

Another thing you could try is just doing different variations of sit-ups/crunches for maybe 5-15 minutes a night before you go to bed. Doing that every single night before you go to sleep will really give you results.