I feel hesitant to post in here because there have been times before, MANY times before, where I decided I should finally exercise and lose the 40 to 50 pounds I've put on in the last decade and then quit within days (in fact, this happened before, and I posted in here back then when I got started). Used the gym at my job for a few days two years ago, and stopped. Bought an exercise bike and put it in my bedroom, next to my bed, but then used it maybe three times over the past year.
But after a cosplay friend of mine recommended My Fitness App on iOS about a week ago to start calorie counting what I was eating, I saw exactly what I was taking in and started thinking. I realized that I'd actually been maintaining my current weight for months, and that losing weight was actually a feasible proposition; all I had to do was get off my ass and work out.
So on Saturday, now armed with Chromecast and a ton of random stuff to watch on my TV courtesy of that, I hopped on the exercise bike for an hour. Saw a legitimate breakdown of what I'd burned, thanks to a combination of that app and an exercise watch I had to buy on Amazon because the calorie counter display in the bike is dead and I'm too lazy to open it up and replace the battery, lol.
To my surprise, and likely entirely because of how easy it is to put two episodes of Doctor Who on (I started watching near the end of Ten's run so I'm catching up on Nine) and have the time fly by like nothing, I've managed 90 minutes on that bike at a moderate and non-painful pace every day over the past five. That's not a lot of time of course; the clincher is seeing if I'm still keeping that up five weeks from now.
BUT. I'm actually starting to really enjoy exercising, which has never happened before; it was always just a necessary evil before now. And if I do keep that up for the next five weeks, it's very possible I'll have already lost 25 pounds by then.
You guys, I'm so stupid excited! I may never become the practical minded non-procrastinator I've always wanted to be; I'm pretty sure I'll remain some type of lazy ass for all time. But at least I can finally see the potential in getting serious about exercising.