Not sure about you but this time of year makes me very demotivated. Unlike spring where I want to get out in the sun and ride somewhere, fall and winter make me lethargic. It’s like I need to hibernate.

This is especially difficult on my desire to work out and lose a bit of weight. The chair in front of the fire is much more inviting than the workout equipment.

My eating habits have also reflected my lethargic state, lots of sugars and starch to make me even more catatonic. I sit here today post lunch blurry eyed and feeling myself slip onto an afternoon siesta I cannot take.

Rattling the can that is my head a bit, I go grab a Coke. Maybe the caffeine will give me a little boost.

Movement is the key to motivation, this I know.

This gets me to thinking about Newton’s Three Laws of Motion (paraphrased)

–          A body in motion tends to stay in motion

–          A fat man in motion is harder to stop

–          Get in front of a fat man and food and your likely to get plowed

I am quickly getting tired of the above laws being continually in force within my life. Additionally, I am holding off on my yearly checkup (for the second year) because I don’t want to be told … your fat.

Now, the doctor does not really say it in that way. He uses clinical terms that are meant to take the sting out of “your fat” but sound, none the less, the same in my head.

Sadly, if you look at a height and weight chart I show up as obese.  That hurts! I am NOT obese, not even by the greatest stretch of imagination. At 6’5” I weigh in around 250. I would like to be about 220. Anything below that and I look absolutely thin.

My vanity makes me want to be lean and cut, but at 52 that may be a bit of a pipe dream. Not because it is not possible, but because I don’t know if I have that level of either motivation or dedication.

Oh, and I like to eat. Often.

However, regardless I know that if I do not subscribe to Newton’s first law (actually Galileo’s initial concept of inertia), the other two will continue to be in force.

Again, tough this time of year when I would rather take a nap than pull on the gloves or swing a leg over the single speed. But the doctor is calling and I am not getting any younger, which brings me back to motivation.

The mind must be involved before motion is initiated. I think therefore I am.

I think I need to get in motion, therefore I get in motion.

Action begets action, repetitive action creates habit and habit gives birth to true change.

I understand this concept quite well.

Now to put it in motion….