utristanfinn mentioned Saudi Arabia . The rest of the Gulf states , and wealthy private individuals in those states , are also powerful forces . <| sep |> Watch out for Blackbeard <| sep |> I might be the oddity here . I kinda fell into it at first . I ended up a in a situation where I had to find odd jobs to make any money to survive . Most of those jobs were physical labor . I was shocked to realize after a few weeks of this that I actually really enjoyed the physical part of it . Then a month or so later I realized I had lost 20 lbs . That was over 100 lbs and almost 5 years ago . It took me another 23 years after that before I got an actual set schedule down and started purposefully working out 6 days a week . I did a lot of start a program and stop , or randomly working out steadily for a few weeks then stopping for a while . But thankfully I have a physically demanding job , so even before I really got into working out I was still being physical and losing weight . I totally agree with others saying to just pick one thing . Also , find that thing that sounds like fun to you , whatever it is . You still will have days where you don ' t want to , but its a whole lot easier to push past that if it ' s an activity you enjoy .