Dudeman

well ive posted on here in the past, but to make a long story short I took a break because of family/financial issues i had to devote all my time to working a low paying job and just got burned out. well then (just my luck) i got into a really bad accident with a drunk driver. I broke alot of ribs and fractured a few bones. well several months later im almost to the point where i can start lifting again, so im working on remotivating myself and making alot of changes. This post is more for my mental focus than anything as this is my way of making sure ill stick with it. I am dead set on this and this is something i feel will help me.

my goals:
no smoking
make a cardio schedule to recondition
new diet
the begin lifting again once i have doctors approval

but aside from all that if you have any motivational tips feel free to pm me or message me on aim ( sn is somedudefromga77). you guys will be seeing alot of me now

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Ikaika

Wow sorry to hear about your accident but its good to see that you're motivated to get back into fighting trim.

The cardio and quitting smoking will go hand in hand. If you smoke, you feel like ass when you do your cardio so just use that as incentive not to smoke. Obviously it isn't quite that simple but it should help right?

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Dudeman

yeah definately helps, ive tried it in the past and i know exactly how crappy it feels. im gonna start slow tommorrow with a nice jog and get my diet routine started.

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bubba g

I quit smoking about 3 and a half years ago, after smoking for over 20 years.. I started when I was like 11... It was best thing I ever did, and a lot easier than I thought, once I finaly stopped kidding myself... Cold turkey is the way to go... if you try to quit by slowly cutting back it is 10 times harder.. No excuses throw away the ones you have, don't buy any more, and refuse to give in to temptation.. before you know it the withdrawls are all gone, and then you are left with the habit part (being used to doing something for so long) that lasts a while, but after going through the nicotene withdrawl it is nothing... when you try to slowly cut back you just prolong the withdrawl period...

DarkFalcon

Hey Dudeman great to see ya back! Glad to hear your on the road to recovery too, had no idea you went through all that. Best advice I can give is don't try to do too much too soon. If you try all those changes in one go you'll most likely fail. Start with the easy ones and make them habit. Once you have those down you can add some of the tougher ones like quiting smoking etc. Key is to make the changes habit forming so they last a lifetime not a month or two.

Dudeman

thanks guys, i havent smoked in 2 days. i ran for the first time friday and coughed for about as long as i ran, so im motivated from there to not smoke any more. now im working on figuring out a diet that will work for me, ive got the concepts and ive been reading through different threads so ill have that down soon too. Ill just keep this thread posted with my updates as they come.

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DarkFalcon

Sounds good and I find diet to be the hardest of all to nail down. So many varibables to consider. Nice start.