The only thing I've found to get me motivated is a friend. If you know there's someone else, you feel that you have to go because they're depending on you. That's all I've got.

Don't know if this will help you since you don't mention your circumstances - do you exercise before going to work or are you a stay-at-home, or work nights? What seems to work best for me is getting in a workout right after work. I drive straight to the gym after work, get in a 45 minute spin class, then about 1/2 hr - 45 mins of strength training and I'm done. I've found if I try to fit it in the morning, I'm rushing around like crazy and if I wait until after dinner the couch usually ends up calling my name - if I go right after work I get it all in. Hope that helps some.

Don't exercise. Keep eating. Keep up the cop-out that you need motivation via friendship. And lose.

I was in a similar situation last year.

Then within a ten-day after New Years, the hallucinations started. Within 24 hours I was "better".

Better because diabetes had wrapped itself around a vein in my right leg and started rotting my body, from the inside out.

Better because my right leg, from above the knee on down, had been removed.

Better because after 58 years of being attached to it, I am now confined to a wheelchair. And I have a disease in the knee of my left leg, and a vascular sore on my left leg which is still present 12 months AFTER the surgery.

Want motivation? Think about me. Can you live with it? Can you live the rest of your life in a wheelchair? Are you ready to give up driving? How many cars are made with a left-foot gas pedal? [O yeah, a replacement gas pedal goes anywhere from $200 to $2000, excluding labor; the "evaluation" needed to use such a device allows YOU to pay from $1500-$2000 for the privilege of driving. Then there is the cost of retrofitting your car/van/SUV or purchasing a new minivan--Find the one of your preference then add $20,000 to the cost so that it can be modified for you.]

Make doubly sure you've got the insurance to cover it.

Like you didn't need a friend to motivate you knowing all this.

And no, this is not a happy time for me. Thanks to my surgery and not having ANY health insurance, I had to file bankruptcy.
I have no job. The only income is Social Security Disability.

Faced with all this, what type of "motivation" do you need?

I like to keep track of the exercises I do, so I use www.mapmywalk.com to log walking/jogging/bike riding times and distances. The Y I belong to uses fitlinxx to record weights and classes attended. This way I am able to compare this month to last month/last year and keep me going. Once the days start getting longer and I am able to do things outside after work, I have a new found energy to want to walk/run/bike. Hope this helps.

Hi Michelle,

Have you considered Yoga [Hatha]? I have a herniated disc [L4-L5] and found it difficult to even walk less than a mile. I attend 40-minute yoga classes 3 times a week. My pain has lessened considerably, therfore, allowing me to walk more and even weightlift 3 times a week.

Because of the increase in exercise I have been able to stave-off the onset of using medication to control my glucose.

However, it does require adherence to a exercise regimen.

Wow, after reading the first reply on the blog I guess I do have to get walking! I am having a really hard time of it also. I have FMS and CFS and I know that not only will exercise help me with both of those and my diabetes, I don't get out there like I should. Now I know, whether it is snowy, or cold or raining, my legs and my feet deserve the best I can give them, and circulation is part of that. Maybe you can make youself get up just a little bit earlier each morning to get back into the habit. That's what I am going to try.

EXERCISE!!!!!! IF I HEAR THAT WORD ONE MORE TIME I THINK I WILL THROW UP-------I HATE TO EXERCISE! Yes I am 20 lbs overweight and have Type2 diabetes but exercise is not something I get excited over-------BUT let me clarify----
If someone came to me and said lets build a ten story building today, move ten tons of bricks, lift seven huge boulders and carry rolls of flooring 40 feet I WOULD JUMP ON THAT regardless of how much energy and sweat it took----BUT IF YOU CAME TO ME AND SAID LETS JOG/ WALK. BIKE/ just because it is good for you then LEAVE ME OUT---EXERCISE IS BORING AND DOING IT JUST FOR THE SAKE OF EXERCISING BORES ME COMPLETELY-----