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Marie-Claire, I hear you!! It seems like once we stop, starting up again is the hardest part of the workout.

You might try this, in an effort to "trick" your body's cellular memory back into its momentum: Tell yourself that for a week, all you have to do is get ready and go (to the gym or to wherever you exercise). You don't actually have to do it, but you have to get dressed for it and you have to drive there.

If all you do is park and then go back home, you will have fulfilled your responsibility for the day. But I guarantee you, there will be a day when it's actually easy to go in. And then the next day, same thing. All you have to do is go there. You can choose, once there, to go home or to go in. Either way, there are no negative feelings involved. But like as not, soon you'll be right back in your old momentum.

If, after a week you haven't wanted to go in, up your ante a little: You have to go, and you have to go in and stretch, but that's all. It's just cellular memory, you know? One thing leads to another. A body in motion stays in motion, a body at rest stays at rest. It's so (annoyingly) true!