Getting up and going to the gym sucks right now. It sucks in the 10 minutes it takes me to get to the gym. It may suck for some time while I'm there. It sucks a

Getting up and going to the gym sucks right now. It sucks in the 10 minutes it takes me to get to the gym. It may suck for some time while I'm there. It sucks after when I think about the time I could have spent playing videogames or doing work ( I'm a notorious workaholic so this is big for me). It feels great in 20 years if I do it consistently enough. Eating crap feels great right now (endorphin release and whatnot). Sleeping in feels great right now. I know what exercising feels like, I know what being lazy feels like. I don't know what diabetes and hypertension feel like. Getting the will to overcome that and make the right choices consistently takes diligent practice and sometimes a little coercion. As someone whose parents never forced me to play sports, exercise is a particularly bad struggle. I stepped into the gym for the first time in college. I've never really experienced being skinny (I would love to someday and am working towards that). Motivation is slightly more complicated than people like to acknowledge, especially when you consider that the environment we experience now is so drastically different from the environment we evolved in. Also, in a social species, reproduction is a less acute need for individuals. See: why condoms exist. Personally, I hate the idea of having children. My act of "reproduction" will be making the world a better and more survivable place for the other children of the world whose DNA is 99.99% similar to mine.