Interesting subject and an issue I can relate to very well. I've never liked sports and I've never done much sports. However, last year I managed to lose a lot of weight with fasting and a new diet. I lost more than 15 kilos, weight I had been carrying with me for 30+ years of my life. I grew up hearing day by day that I had to eat everything up and I wasn't allowed to leave the table unless my plate was empty.
And I come from a very meat loving family with a lot of sweets and fat stuff on their plates. My strongest act of rebellion against that tradition was becoming a vegetarian at 20 after I had moved out. They still cannot deal with that.
So I kind of lost my natural sense of feeling saturated and being able to say when I'm having enough. I'm still struggling against that a lot, because once I start to eat it's difficult for me to quit eating, I have to stop radically - or not eat anything at all. That's basically how I managed to lose weight, it was indeed quite radical. After the fasting periods I changed my diet completely and watched my calories very closely. I read and learned a lot about food, but I developed a total disliking of all kinds of diets, because I know from experience (and from many other people) that everyone reacts differently to certain diets: While a diet may be great for one person and help them to control their weight, it may be totally useless for another person.
So I found out I had to get over myself and do a lot of excercise to be able to keep my weight despite my bad eating habits. I got used to doing all sorts of stuff I'd never thought I'd do. The things that helped me the most has been regular gynmastics, Pilates, dancing, walking, and most of all: swimming. Ironically, I swim more in the winter than I do in summer, because it's so dependent on the weather. I walk a lot, I walk to every place I can reach without having to use public transport and I don't have a car. Most people I know don't even walk half the ways I do, they all think I'm crazy
I love to dance. I do training with weights to build up some muscle mass. The more I excercise, the easier it becomes. I still don't exactly love every bit of training, but I enjoy the feeling of having done something good for your body and health. I don't mind sweating. Unfortunately I started having some problems with my spine and my knee - due to an injury I suffered half a year ago - so I cannot run as much as I used to - the truth is that I shouldn't run at all - and I have difficulties doing certain positions in yoga. So I have to take care of my limitations, but apart from that I enjoy the training, even if it means having to get up an hour earlier because I have so much to do that I don't really have much time for the gym.
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I do personal training 1-2 times a week because I have a bad shoulder and want to strengthen the area without injuring it. It's also really helped kick my butt into shape.
