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For the past few years, I started slowly but consistently gaining weight.  It’s gotten to a point that I don’t feel as energetic as usual and that I’m always tired.  So, the natural solution was to start exercising.  4 weeks ago, I started running at least 3 times a week for 30 minutes in each session.  At first, it was very hard and I felt almost exhausted afterwards.  I felt so tired I wasn’t able to sleep because my muscles were aching so much.  Luckily, it got much better after a few sessions as I started to feel more comfortable with the length of the sessions and my sleeping problem went away.

Fast forward to today, I can already see the results of my routine.  I’m much more energetic and in general much happier.  It’s strange because I actually feel more alert after I run even though I would expect to be tired afterwards.  I’m also much more optimistic and confident in everything and that in itself has made me much more motivated.

This is obviously a very indirect way of motivating ourselves but I can tell you that it works!  Actually, this works so well that I feel sad to not have done this much earlier!

If you were like me and feel unmotivated and a lack of energy everyday, then try to start exercising!  It will be very painful at the beginning but I assure you that it will be much better in a few weeks!