Here is my trick and has been for as long as I can remember.
Wake up at 4am
Drink coffee
Go to restroom
Go run, or go bike, or go swim
Go to work.
I can’t change it anymore if I tried. Though at 60 I can’t run anymore, but still bike and swim and watch what I eat.
I drink all the beer I want and still weigh close to college weight.
Of course my profession required a certain level of fitness so that helped.
I followed this advice and I died in terrible agonizing pain.
I was dumped into a pit of despair and self-destruction by
following this advice and I never emerged again at all.
If I could regain my health and sanity I would seek out the
originator of this abominable blasphemy and have vengeance.
Shun this messenger, this demonic influence of pain and misery.
Shun him, and live! Be not fooled by internet demons of blasphemy.
No matter how profoundly dedicated you are to a fitness routine, you cannot outrun a fork.
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If one makes exercise too much like a work obligation then it becomes undesirable. For me the goal is to do a little exercise every day and if a day or three passes by without then just pick it up the following day. Being age 62 I’m much less goal oriented than in younger years. Do exercise that you somewhat enjoy and be consistent as possible. Works for me.