Ask HN: What keeps you from exercising?
Complete and total lack of motivation here.<p>The main problem for me is that my only motivation for working out would be to gain muscle for the purpose of looking more attractive to the opposite sex.  I&#x27;m married and my wife is happy and during a two-year stint in my 20s when I actually took it seriously (personal trainer and everything), I ended up getting almost no visible results (gained strength but I need only enough to tap keys).  For whatever reason, I struggle to gain weight the same way people struggle to lose it (though, admittedly, it&#x27;s a lot easier to have my problem).  I&#x27;ve been underweight since High School with the warning given to me by my friends&#x2F;family that &quot;it&#x27;ll catch up with me when I&#x27;m &#x27;x&#x27;&quot; (where &quot;x&quot; is an age I&#x27;ve passed already, and y, and z).  I get yearly physicals and have my cholesterol levels (and others) checked.  They&#x27;re all where they should be (or better).  I&#x27;ve had a lot of other things checked, too -- always happens when I get a new doctor and he starts inquiring about my diet -- which, we&#x27;ll just say, includes a 40-oz chocolate milk shake[0] most nights and goes downhill from there.<p>Having &quot;bigger muscles&quot;, which wouldn&#x27;t serve much of a purpose for me, isn&#x27;t nearly enough motivation and I don&#x27;t particularly enjoy working out.  And having no <i>other</i> reason means I have zero motivation.<p>[0] I know the precise size of the milkshake because that&#x27;s the size of the cup.  I joke that I own one of those health-nut blenders with the pretty &quot;running girl&quot; on the front drinking a likely-tasteless smoothy.  I bought it because I hated cleaning the big blender every night and fill it with things that would warrant a different looking person on the box.<p>Edit: 64 oz didn&#x27;t seem right so I looked at the container, it was 40 oz.