I started by drinking my pain away, which of course just lead to more self-loathing and therefore more drinking.
Yep, it's the "I eat because I'm sad, I'm sad because I eat" conundrum. Personally, my biggest issue is time and motivation. I know I need to make the time, but that's hard to do when I don't wanna get up. Once I get moving, though, it's easy to keep going.
exactly. Even when it was really tough I felt a compulsion to keep moving, to lift a little bit more and the results i saw over time inspired me to make even more changes to my life. It's a gradual thing and even if you only have a little bit of time it is better than devoting zero time to it.