My current routine takes about twenty minutes a day, and I don't do it on Sundays (for a day of rest) and Wednesdays (because of how late I get home and because of the aforementioned laziness). I have extended the routine a bit every month so that by the summer I should be up to the recommended half hour of exercise for five times a week. ... It's just so easy to not do it.
This (3 months) is about the point that I have stopped most of my exercise routines for one reason or another. I've gone through this pattern time and time again. Part of the issue is that I hit a low weight recently and my mind uses that as a justification to stop rather than to keep going. Part of the issue is that since hitting that low weight and continuing to do the exercise with no real increase in my eating habits, my weight went up. Even though I know that stopping my exercises will only make that issue worse, my lazy brain is looking for any excuse and "it's not really doing any good anyway," even if it directly contracts the "you've already lost so much weight," tends to be one of my mind's favorite ways to avoid anything that seems like work.
Well, my toe hurts, I'm tired, and it's late, but I'm going to run the routine and hopefully gain a little bit of ground in building a good habit.