the other way round too. doing things that help are so hard when depressed.
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Exercise, like food, is culturally stupid because the only ways to market it as a product is to make it terrible.
It is not a gym, or a machine. Those are mostly scams. It is a thing you enjoy and need to explore many avenues to find what you enjoy. Ideally, your main activity shouldn't cost anything or be a destination.
It should never be a thing you force yourself to do. It is your primary source of self accessible endorphins; it is the main antidepressant drug your own body makes from within.
If you were a prisoner in solitary confinement, there are still ways to exercise. Your body and gravity are all that is needed. That is how you avoid going insane in such an environment. That is the fundamental abstract logic to build up from. Start exercising like this.
A decade and a half ago, I went from 350lbs to 190lbs. It started from this idea, along with the realisation that it only takes 6 weeks to convert any activity to a de facto routine. If you commit to making yourself do any activities for just 6 weeks, you will no longer feel difficulty motivating yourself to continue. That is the neutral point. After that, it will increasingly become harder to stop rather than continue the routine. Just 6 weeks to change your life is all it takes. I've been physically disabled for nearly 12 years now due to cars and bad luck on the bike, but I am still only 220lbs despite spending around 90% of the last 12 years stuck in bed. I hurt like hell, but still keep that routine. 6 weeks.
what particular routine do you follow?
I'm down to a little under an hour and 16 mile down and back on the bike, with only 3/4 miles around cars. I can't see over my left shoulder any more.
At my peak, I did 2 years of 400+ miles every week. I worked at a bike shop that was 33 miles away and rode that every day, six days a week. Saturdays, I rode in and lead out a group ride for 40-60 miles, then rode home. I raced around 1 Sunday a month.
I started much smaller and kept getting jobs that were further and further from home, but kept commuting and adjusting okay. It started to get expensive to maintain bikes, so I started looking for a bike shop to work at. The actual route was just 26 miles by the shortest roads, but I quickly learned to connect all the dedicated bike paths as much as possible.
It is kinda odd riding like that. Food is not a real choice. You need a lot of calories and eating bad is not an option. I still did it some for awhile, but getting sick a dozen times and the magnitude of consequences is enough to change anyone's habits. The human stomach shuts down almost entirely to divert blood flow to muscles during long endurance activities. So most of the problems are not actually on the bike but after. However a 1.5 hour commute will quickly turn into a 2+ hour slough without caloric balance.
The eating habits I learned back then stuck well. Bad foods sicken me, not in any emotional or dogmatic sense, they actually make me feel ill out of the memories of what I felt like in the past.