Hello group I didn't know existed [View all]

I'm in my 40's and finally decided to live a healthy lifestyle (quit smoking, massive cutback on drinking, massive overhaul of diet, and just started going to the gym). I'm still early on in this midlife quest (day 15 smoke free, should be day 3 at gym after work) and this shit is hard.

I'm afraid I'll give up on going to the gym without some motivation - self motivation isn't a strong suit. I've started using MyFitnessPal app and that seems to be my only motivation: I have to get to the gym to burn x amount of calories for the day because my diet didn't go so well.

Getting to the gym is tough with work and family commitments so I have a built in excuse every day (my first trip to the gym meant that I had to get up an hour earlier the following day to do laundry and stuff I would have done the night before if not for the gym).

This group seems rather dead but I was looking for others in a similar boat where maybe we can encourage each other and tell war stories of crushing the treadmill. This seems like the most logical group.