It’s not easy, I know. Tell yourself you don’t want to cause yourself to get worse. I find the exercise part once you get into a routine to be not so bad. You actually feel better keeping your body active. I walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes or so 3 or 4 times per week while watching the news on TV. I feel tired afterwards but you get that sense of accomplishment. I then rest, relax and have something to eat which serves as an after reward. On the whole you feel better than when you don’t exercise. The diet part is harder for me. Although my body mass index is good I have been awarded the title of pre diabetic so I have to watch my sugar intake too. I try to concentrate on healthy foods by visualizing ugly yellowish gray fat going through my stomach to the rest of my body and clogging my arteries with the poison. So I work on associating that visualization with chips, creme filled cookies/cake and other commonly known poisonous junk for your heart. I do allow myself dessert at night (don’t totally deprive myself) of the more healthy type treats such as dark chocolate, those Dole frozen chocolate covered frozen banana pieces, the Annies bunny grahams, frozen yougert bars, frozen fruit bars, low fat frozen fudge bars etc but stay away from the nasty ugly high fat artery clogging foods that try to fool you by looking nice on the outside but are really poison in disguise. Keep Visualizing that poison in disguise going through your arteries to your heart so it becomes automatic thought. It’s true that stuff is poison. Sold for pure profit not for people’s health. Hope this helps.