It is a good thing that this is just a fitness blog because otherwise this subject could really scale out to a book or two in length.
What is your fitness excuse, why are you not eating or getting the exercise that you need?
I have flogged this one a bit but back in December I broke the axle on the back wheel of my bike. Of course it was a little cold and a week until Christmas so I did not get it fixed. I spend January trying a couple of times to fix it and the giving up. In February I started thinking about buying a new bike and then finally in March I got serious and realized that I did not want to spend money on a new bike and instead took my bike wheel, in pieces to a bike shop to get it fixed. The bike shop has been busy and so finally on Saturday I got the wheel back, put it on the bike and today I rode to work for the first time in three months.
Oh, and the cost of fixing my wheel? $19.32
So now we have my excuses. For all these months I have worked out on and off but mostly off because I was not motivated and also because I have not had a schedule that was committed to exercise. These two reasons alone are what stop people from getting things done everywhere in life but with exercise and eating you can have a very fast improvement in your health just by setting things up right.