habits

Can someone tell me why it takes far less time to break a habit than it does to create one!!?

I had given myself a week of rest from running after that leg pain I had a week ago and fully intended to get back to it this morning....and did I?

Ummm, "no" would be the short answer!! It was too easy to snuggle up in bed and pull the covers over my head! I will try again tomorrow and I really really don't want to let myself down in this as the pounds are slowly but surely coming off and I feel so much better for it - I walk better, I sleep better, I feel better - stronger, fitter, more capable.

Of course, it is an excellent side benefit that I am now able to fit into clothes that were too tight for me, including a lovely purple t-shirt that I never wore before! However, the lack of exercise at the moment means that I am hovering around the same weigh point and nothing is moving!

What I need to do is get to the point where my day feels funny if I don't get some exercise in, where it become such a habit that I don't think anything of it and it is simply just another thing to do automatically like brush my teeth after breakfast!! There must be a million quotes and sayings that say something like "nothing worth doing is easy", so I need to find myself a personal mantra that I can dredge up to get myself moving! Does anyone have a personal motivator, that one phrase that reminds you of what you are doing and why? Do share!

In any case, I have signed up for weelittleme's virtual 5k race, so I had better get cracking!