Is it possible to make someone love fitness?

Filed in archive Stay Healthy on September 30, 2007

In the film Bruce Almighty Bruce tries to make Grace love him. At one stage of the film he implores on his knees but she still doesn't love him. Even though he is God he cannot use his power to make Grace love him again.

This made me think about how we want to be fit so badly and we say we will start a new life, go on a diet, work more and take up a hobby or something else we really want. But we can't.
And who is stopping us? Who is in charge of our lives? Who is it that is stopping us from leading a healthy life? We cannot blame God as Bruce can do in the film. The one to blame is us.

We, you and me, are all in charge of our proper lives and it is only we that can change it. You can ask God to help you on the way but the one who has to do the job is you.
So how do you make someone love fitness? Or how do you make yourself love fitness when you don´t like it? In the film Bruce does several things for Grace to start liking him again and slowly but surely she once again sees love in Bruce.

But it took time. Loving or liking someone or something sometimes takes time and it's not possible to make it happen fast. It's the same way with fitness. You might not like it in the beginning; you might even hate it so much that you say you will never do it again. But you know deep inside that you should so you continue. After a few times you actually come to like it, maybe even love it.

I can´t tell you if it´s possible to make someone love fitness but I think the chances are good.
How long did it take for you to come to like fitness if you didn´t like it from the beginning?