I pose a question! I need some answers

I am a normally intelligent, hardworking person. To prove this fact: I graduated with my master's degree from a program that only allows 6 people per year, I currently work full time (I have basically always worked since I was 18) and then I do designing on the side (not as much as I used to because, quite frankly, doing yard work is like 6-10 hours of my week), I also make time for family in all this. However, as hard as I try, I can't get myself to spend 30 minutes a day to exercise. I hype myself up the night before - "you love the outdoors," "go for a run tomorrow," "you will feel so much healthier and happier." But then, my alarm rings, and I hit the snooze button 10 zillion times. So I tell myself that I will go running, or walking, or biking, or something, when I get home from work. But then I am hungry, and usually tired, or just don't want to. And I don't get any exercise. I told myself I would be so much better at exercising when we moved to our new place, but I am not :).
Then, my other problem - I eat a lot of junk food. I tell myself I don't want it, don't need it, but I find myself eating "comfort food" throughout the day.
When those two things combine, I have problems. I have always been relatively slim, until graduate school. No sleep, eating to stay awake while I was reading or doing assignments, and not having to even walk around campus much (which kept me slimmer during undergrad) created a 30 pound increase in my weight (and I was always wanting to lose 5 or 10 pounds prior to that, even though I was relatively slim).
I have since, through much difficulty, lost about 15-18 pounds of that weight. However, in the past year, I have gained back 8 pounds of my loss. The weight gain crept on me so slowly, my pants started seeming slightly tighter, they must have shrunk in the wash. My shirts didn't fit me like they used to. I finally got on a scale and realized I had gained 8 pounds! On my small frame, that really makes a difference. I was heart broken. I guess stopping running really did make a difference. And while you may think that I would be more encouraged to exercise and eat right, I continue to push the snooze button and eat junk. To make matters worse, my dear sweet husband is an excellent runner. He runs every day for 30 minutes and more on the weekends. He does this even when he stays up late, even when he is sick, even when it is wet out, or cold, or hot. All the excuses I give for not going. He works 65-70 hours a week, sometimes more. He only gets a day off from work, and that day he spends mowing the lawn. And he is so encouraging toward me and never says anything disparaging. He simply tells me he wants me to be healthy and I will be so healthy if I run, or walk, or do ANYTHING besides hitting my snooze button. I know he gets frustrated, I know he worries, but he is so supportive.
So after all this long winded discussion, here is my question. How in the heck do I motivate myself to get out of the nice cozy bed in the morning and rune, or walk, or bike or SOMETHING? You would think as a therapist I would know all the answers. And I do (NOT :) ). It just seems that I can encourage everyone else in my life, but I can't encourage myself. And I have all the excuses in the world. None of which seem very intelligent or hard working. I have asked my kind, dear, supportive husband to wake me up when he wakes up to go running, even if he has to push me out of bed. He doesn't like confrontation and I guess I get a little grumbly in the morning. Not really bad, I just keep telling him I don't really want to that day and when he tries to insist, I tell him no again (hit the snooze button) and he kindly supports my decision to not wake up.
So those of you who have had problems with getting motivated to exercise in the past, what have you done? Maybe I should have an electric shock set up on the snooze button :)

Last day for HUGE savings

I just wanted to let everyone know that it is the last day for HUGE savings on everything in my store. This will be the biggest sale this year so don't miss out. If you buy one of my "buy my store" packages, you save between 77 and 86% off regular prices. Just click here to get to my store.

Buy my Store and pics of my house

In celebration of my 7th wedding anniversary I am having a huge sale on all my products in my store. You have three choices of products to buy - 1) All my Scrap for Hire products, 2) My Commercial Use products created before August 2008 and 3) All my products created after August 2008. Each option is only $50 and offers at least 76% in savings.

Previews of my stuff for sale (not all products shown)

Personal Use/ Scrap for Hire

Pre August 2008 Products

Post August 2008 Products.

Here are some Pictures of my house. Some are from before I moved in. I don't have pictures of everything, but I have some of my most favorite parts of the house.

First are pictures of my backyard. I love the flowers and garden :)

My garden. Everything is bigger now. The plants along the edges are strawberry plants.

Tomato plants.

My Kitchen

My Dining room

Here are some pictures of my very own craft room. This is when I first moved everything in. My chair for my computer was broken so I had to use a folded chair for awhile :)

My staircase. Looking at the front door.

My living room (prior to our stuff being moved in).

update

Man, it has been a LONG time since I last posted. I am so sorry. The process of buying a house and moving was a lot more intensive than I expected. I never want to move again :) But now I am settled into my new place, which I LOVE and am ready to get moving again on my designing. I am having a huge sale this weekend so come back tomorrow evening for more information. I am also going to post some pics of my house. It is so cute and I absolutely think we did the best thing with this house. It is cozy and perfect for a first home or a home to stay in for the rest of our lives. We were looking at bigger homes, but they were all fixer uppers. This home has nothing to fix and we are so pleased with it. So come back tomorrow for more info :)

New Grab Bag. Engagement Photos.

So, I have a new commercial use grab bag up at Scrapbook bytes. As always, the previews are here. The grab bag is $5 and will be available through Saturday. Here are the previews.

Then, I went to take pictures of my brother and his fiance. They ended up getting eloped, so I guess these aren't engagement photos, but marriage photos.

As I explained earlier, my brother and his fiance wanted me to take some pictures of them for their engagement photos. She also wants me to take pictures of her for her bridal shots and they want me to take their wedding photos. It is a mighty big place to take, seeing as how I am not really a photographer. Anyway, I went to take their pictures, we drove a long way to a place of her choosing and I took the pictures. I thought I would work in manual mode for these photos and not really look at the results because I didn't want them to think I didn't know what I was doing. Both things combined made for not so wonderful photos. I am going back up next Friday to take some again and will be in auto mode so I can actually get some good photos and worry more about how they are posed rather than how my camera is working. Anyway, here are some of the photos I took of them.

My sister decided that since I was already in the area with a camera, I might as well get some pictures for her. I agreed and took several. Again, there weren't many that I loved, but there were a couple. We might be doing some more as well, we shall see. Here were some of my favorites of their photos.

This is one of my favorites, my sister was comforting a scared son who had just gone down the slide a little too fast and I took this photo without them realizing it. They soon started to smile, but this was my favorite photo out of that bunch.

Here is a picture of my mom and my neice. Although my neices eye is slightly being pulled, I feel like this picture turned out well.

So there they are, for all to see my lack of photography skills. Please don't laugh at my attempts. I am still learning.