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Since you probably already have dozens of excuses ready to go as for why you shouldn’t exercise — and because sitting on your butt just feels so good —you need to prepare mantras, ahead of time, to repeat at those moments when you don’t feel like moving at all and eating a tub of ice cream! Here are a few thoughts to get you started — and motvated.

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I only get one life and one body

You don’t get a second chance. You don’t get to swap in your body for a new one (at least not without lots of money). If you find yourself five sizes larger than you want at the end of your life, you’ll experience deep regret. Treat your body well every day—you don’t get that day back. You don’t get to undo it.

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Getting dressed is always easy when you’re fit

You don’t have to cover up this or tuck in that, or restrict yourself to slimming colors or long sleeves when you feel proud of each part of your body, just as they are. Think of all the hours, over a lifetime, you could save, if putting an outfit together wasn’t such an enormous task.