In shape?

[Zeldy]

I'm not overweight or anything and I am healthy, I'm just not fit. I'm not active enough; I go the gym for a few weeks, get bored and don't go for another year. I have a healthy diet (due to my parents, as they make all my meals, but also because vegetables have always been on my plate, whether I asked about them or even knew they were there, my Mum was so good at hiding sprouts in the mash or carrots and turnips xD). I like my healthy food though, I looove apples and eat millions of them.

I keep trying to go on diets but I love my chocolate and fizzy drinks too much, but I don't need to diet, really, I just need exercise. I'm around 8½ stone, and ideally I'd like to be just 8 stone

You know you're unfit when you get stitches in your side due to simply walking down the street, now that I've finished highschool I have no more compulsory physical education, which worries me. That was my only exercise a week those two hours!

[tidus_rox]

Zeldy, since when have you finished highschool?
ANYWAYS
I think I am in good shape :)
I want to be SKINNY, though. Kinda weird. XD

[Zeldy]

Zeldy, since when have you finished highschool?
ANYWAYS
I think I am in good shape
I want to be SKINNY, though. Kinda weird. XD

I finished in June after my GCSEs.

[GrimmReaper]

im in shape. im 'fit'. not overrweight, possibly underweight for my job requirements, but whatever. however, im also lazy. i pretty much devote my entire working day doing my best to do nothing at all. and i love my sleep

i dont know how the lot works out, but it does.

[Miriel]

The problem with me is that I'm so sporadic with my exercising.

For one week I could run 2 miles every single day. And then I take a break for whatever reason, because I have midterms to study for, or because I fell and hurt my leg, whatever. And then for the next month I won't exercise.

Once I'm in the groove, it's really easy for me to keep up with my exercise regime. But once I break that groove and stop for a day or two, it's really really hard for me to get back into it. It's this whole long process of getting my motivation back up and getting into that rhythm of exercising daily.

I don't eat all that healthily. I love food and it's hard for me to cut back on stuff I love like pastas and chips.

Rather than cutting back on the things I love, I'd rather just exercise like crazy. I can easily run 2 miles without aching like crazy, so I assume that means I'm in ok shape. 3 miles is pushing it though.

[Jojee]

I'm always reminding myself to be more in shape. I just don't have the willpower to watch what I eat and exercise regularly Dx

You're so silly. Unless you want to gain muscle or something, you're in great shape.

There's always room for improvement! :mog:

I do get a lot of motivation to exercise some days and then I go out running... I even went swimming the other day and I hate swimming. xD I have a membership at the gym too. Sometimes I get paranoid and think "Omg I need to exercise!!" But I don't regularly.

But most of the time, I'm just like "I'd like to exercise, but meh..." and I love junk food too much.

[NeoTifa]

I am in shape! Round is a shape

dude you copied me!!! :twak:

[Blue Harvest]

I am in shape! Round is a shape

dude you copied me!!! :twak:

I did?

*Checks*

Oops. Well you know what they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

[Tallulah]

I have the body of a God. Buddha!

Now that I have to walk up a fairly steep hill to get home, I am getting a lot more exercise, and I am also trying to eat more sensibly by cooking my own meals. Unfortunately when I get home I can't be bothered.

I do live nearer the swimming baths now, so I am trying to go at least twice a week.

[leader of mortals]

When I was still in school, I would walk 4 blocks to the bus, 4 blocks from the bus, walk to all my classes going from CAD on floor 1 to English on floor 2 to Math on floor 1 to Global Cultures on floor 2 to lunch on floor 1 to Biology on floor 3 to Gym on floor 1. So I did a fair amount of walking and I had Individual sports for gym.

The final exam for gym was to do 50 sit-ups in 2 minutes, which I did, 30 push-ups in 2 minutes, which I did quite well I think, an exam, and a 1/4 mile run which we had to do in 1 minute and I think 30 seconds. I did it in 1 minute and I think 40 seconds. For the run I was half way done with the run by the time the others were about a third, but I didnt pase myself and I went to last. People were making fun of my ass because they got a good look at it as I was quite ahead of them

[Fonzie]

I work out every day.

[fire_of_avalon]

How many of you are dissatisfied with your current health status and would like to be in better shape?

Yes.

Do you lack the motivation to workout and change your diet?

Kind of. It's more of a motivation vs. time thing. I don't really have time to be getting to the gym as they operate under funny hours at the summer and I work/have class at equally funny hours. But usually it's a motivation thing. It's not even that I dislike exercise, I actually do like to exercise. I'm just ... really lazy.

What other barriers get in the way of you achieving a healthier lifestyle?

Cost of food, time management, busy weeks vs. non-busy weeks, leaving town/free gym access for up to a month at a time and other stuff I'm sure.

Do you think an EoFF Athletics support group could help motivate you through people sharing workout techniques, nutritional recipes and in general just sharing their experiences?

Maybe if it was a real support group like "You did such a good job today Chemical" or "foa you know better than to eat cheese blintz's at 2 o'clock in the morning." If it was TODAY I RAN A MILLION MILES and that's it, I don't think that would motivate me at all.

I've been struggling for a long time to become more active and healthy.
I certainly have come in long strides over the years from being active never to running 1 - 2 times a week and rock climbing nearly 3 times a week and taking yoga almost every other week.

But I wonder if having a network of people who have the same goals would help me more.

Maybe!

[scrumpleberry]

I've got a pretty nice figure, and i'm in shape although could use a bit of toning but I'm not fit enough.

I think it's a good idea: it's be loads of help, especially with the summer panicky influx of "HALP I WANT BE MUSCKLY/SKINNY/HEALTHY" threads, this place would benefit from an EOFF FITNESS COMMUNITY!

but like foa said if it was full of people like Mulley going "HAR HAR I DID 33 TRIATHALONS AND CHANNEL SWIMS IN A ROW THIS MORNING EOFF, WHAT DID YOU DO???????" people might not find it quite so helpful, so i think the goals should mainly be to support one another and do your best to take advice and stick to things. I dunno.

[Flying Mullet]

Ibut like foa said if it was full of people like Mulley going "HAR HAR I DID 33 TRIATHALONS AND CHANNEL SWIMS IN A ROW THIS MORNING EOFF, WHAT DID YOU DO???????" people might not find it quite so helpful, so i think the goals should mainly be to support one another and do your best to take advice and stick to things. I dunno.

I wouldn't do that. :sad:

[rubah]

people could post both, it's not like it has to be a single method, especially if there would be a bunch of us in it.