Here’s the deal. I gained a lot of weight after graduating college last year because of a lot of stress and changes happening all at once (graduating, new job right out of school, moving away from my best friends, etc.) It took me several months before I gathered the energy, motivation, and time to start working out. Around April of this year, I started exercising regularly and lost about 15-20 pounds but had 2 family deaths within a month. After the first, I managed to keep up the regular exercise to get my mind off things but the second hit me really hard (my closest aunt and it was sudden). and I gradually just lost motivation. Long story short, I hadn’t done any regular exercise since mid July and finally got up the motivation to get going again today. Prior to stopping, I had really built up my endurance — I use an elliptical at home–my speed, resistance, and duration were all much better than where I had started. I was switching up the levels, speed, and time a lot so my body wouldn’t get too used to it. Well, I could barely go a half hour today at the resistance I’d left off at! I did push myself to go at least 30 minutes but it felt like I was brand new to exercise again.

Considering I’m actually NOT new to exercise, how quickly should I be able to build my endurance back up? I really need to lose the weight for my best friend’s wedding next July and know I have a long time to do it but at this point, it’s so hard to stay motivated for the long term when I couldn’t even make it half the time I was 3 months ago. I haven’t gained any weight, in that time but haven’t lost any either.

Just to give more details, I’m 23 and healthy (despite being overweight, obviously). I’m a pre-k teacher so my job isn’t sedentary by any means and generally have a good energy level when I get enough sleep. Something else I’m struggling with lol. I lose fairly consistently once I get into a routine but motivation is the big problem.

Any suggestions? I’m not looking for diet advice – I know more than enough about good nutrition and healthy eating and actually eat really well It’s just that I’ve always had the type of metabolism where I gain easily without regular exercise (lucky me!) Thanks in advance!

Hi Erin,

Firstly, becoming fit again is hard for anyone, even for athletes who have not done as much as they should have in the off-season.
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Secondly, being motivated IS about good nutrition because without good nutrition you will never stay motivated, since you will get tired-er and tired-er and eventually give up.

Thirdly, after reading your question, and I knew you should-be interested in maximizing your nutrition, [((-:] so even though I may not answer your question exactly as you may have wanted it answered, I thought I would take the time to pass on some pointers I have learned the hard way from my own bad ‘uninformed’ choices, so you could learn about good advice and bad advice about good nutritional choices.

Sooo, after having many bad health problems from listening to people who knew very little about the consequences of choosing LOW nutritional ’statistics,’ I really-really encourage you to learn from good nutritionists what to eat for a life time. [See below]

Lastly, if I have not helped you as much as you felt you needed, I am always impressed that there has sometimes been better advice than I have given from people helping others through Yahoo_Answers.

My best to you and to your future health,
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I have learned what I now know after my own lengthy research efforts to improve my health – after ‘FINALLY’ listening to unbiased researching nutritionists. I have shared extensively concerning the most critical nutritional statistics that are common to us all at: <> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ap_lYDPwvxx8oDPWF1qoSd_sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091005174358AAgZawf
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Also, after all my previous health problems due to following a-lot of bad advice, I can now understand the frustrations of other health researchers in the following quote within “The China Study” by T Colin Campbell pg 1: >>==>

“Even though information and opinions are plentiful, very few people truly know what they should be doing to improve their health.”

“This isn’t because the research hasn’t been done. It has. But the real science has been buried beneath a clutter of irrelevant or even harmful information – junk science, fad diets and food industry propaganda.”

“The China Study” by T Colin Campbell pg 1