Lose Weight 7

Eels100

Hi chralph, welcome!

I've been coming in here for a couple of weeks now and have found everyone very friendly, and the advice and support is great! It's made a huge difference to my motivation and persistence. Have you got any idea of how much you want to lose? Lois Lane runs a fabulous 2lb club - it's great to have something to aim for each week and 2lbs is really achievable.

I'd also suggest you take a wee while to look through the Moneysaving Old Style Board - there are loads of tips on cooking for yourself there, usually with a healthy slant. If you ask for help and advice about starting to make food for yourself (and maybe for your Dad too?!) you'll get plenty of ideas there.

Good luck!

chralph

I need to lose about 3 Stone i think. I don't have the motivation to go and exercise and i can't afford the gym Its getting me down.

Eels100

chralph wrote:

I need to lose about 3 Stone i think. I don't have the motivation to go and exercise and i can't afford the gym Its getting me down.

Well, if you want a tip from someone who has a lot more to lose than you do, and who is the queen of unmotivated, then I'd say make a point of saving this thread to your favourites. I am a serial comfort/binge eater, and I feel way too fat to go and exercise in public. But coming in here instead of making myself seventeen slices of toast is a good start.

I have dogs which need walked, so I just walk them a bit further and a bit faster. Maybe you could offer to exercise a friend's dog? Or find a way to walk instead of drive/take a bus for regular journeys. And I find that getting myself excited about cooking, so that food is a positive thing rather than something I have to be controlled or ashamed about, is really helpful. Eating (and guiltlessly enjoying) something that I know is healthy and good for me gives me a buzz even greater than the short-lived kick of a Dairy Milk.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still a lard*rse, but I'm determined to make slow and permanent changes to my lifestyle.

Eels100

I have a question for you wonderful people: can anyone recommend an exercise DVD? I'm not sure where to start because I have a tiny living room, so there's really not much room for leaping around and doing high-kicks. I am open to the idea of yoga-type things, but I really need something which will give me a cardio workout because my main problem is blubber. And if it's very short and basic, or even better has several short workouts, even better.

jenpoptab

good luck chralph- stick with us, we all support each other.

Eels100- my hubby has just got a Tae Bo dvd, which looks good. I have a Rosemary connelly vid which is good but you need a fair bit of space to shuffle. The tae bo one was only £4.99 from blah dvd- it looks like most of it is concentrated to one spot of floor space . I did a few minutes to try it out last night and was impressed!

Lois_Lane

Hi Eels - Rosemary Conley does one that fits your bill - you need enough space to take four (small) steps forwards, and two steps sideways to do the exercises, and it's broken up into mini workouts that you can do individually, or one after the other. Its followed by strengthening exercises for the bum, hips, thighs and abdomen.


This link will take you to the page on Amazon to show you which one it is.

LL

faithless

I've got a Nell McAndrew one - she's a model, but she runs marathons every year, and the video is an exercise class she does regularly. It's pretty much on one spot, so you don't need much room, and I'd say it's best for girls, as concentrates on thighs a lot. It is quite repetitive, but does give results. It was cheap on Play.com (&free p&p!), but Amazon is good cos it does the customer reviews, so look there to find out what lots of people have said about it and the average rating they gave it, then go buy it cheap! It's definately worth reading the reviews, cos if someone says something about it and you think you'd hate that, then you can look for something else.

The really good thing about this one was it has a 'bail out' option every so often, so you do the warm up and straight into the main part, and in that you can press 'bail out' and it goes straight to the cooldown section, so you can have a short or longer workout, and you can bail out when you're kn@ckered! It's not easy, so you'll almost certainly be begging for the 'bail out' to come up, unless you're super fit!

Here's the link to the one I got off Play:
http://http://www.play.com/Search.aspx?searchtype=r2title&searchstring=nell&page=search&pa=search

-I got Ultimate Challenge, Ultimate Results, cos it was well-reviewed.

I'm looking for something different to alternate with this one to do different exercises, so one thing to think about is getting 2 very different ones, so hopefully you'll fancy doing one of them, if not the other.

Here's the Exercise section on Amazon:
http://http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/browse.html/ref=amb_link_3/026-2063998-9277264?ie=UTF8&node=501954


The one thing I would say not to get is anything by soap stars or the like, as these are often !!!!!!, with random exercises/dance moves, that are just released for Christmas as gimmicks. Get one by a qualified instructor (the Nell one I've got is led by her instructor), and get something quite difficult so you can get stuck into it, and not get bored once you've done it once!

honey28

Welcome Chralph - I think you got a whole lot of good advice from eels100 - nothing else I can add to that! Stick with it and come on here anytime you need help or motivation - there's plenty of both in here!
Eels - the Davina one gets a good write up too - I think it was mentioned back through this thread.

Oops, am I still here? have 2 sets of viewers coming in next half hour - best get dusting. I can honestly say that I am sick of viewers and am so not in a show-ey round-ey mood today (or any day for that matter!)
Catch you later.

Eels100

I've gone for Rosemary Conley simply because it seems really designed for people who need to lose weight and for whom rippling muscles are of no significance! There's no way I can do this when OH is home so I'm planning to squeeze in a short session in the mornings before work and hopefully a proper one when he's out twice weekly. Thanks everyone!

monkeylugs

I'm depressed - I gained 3lbs last night. I was too upset to stay to class as I could feel the tears welling up, and then I proceeded to sob all evening at home because I feel such a fat failure. It now means I am 1lb heavier than I was than I started it three weeks ago. I just feel that the last three weeks has been a complete waste of time (not to mention money). I know deep down that I did go over my syns, well over, but one of them was a flexible syns day, and I'm just heartbroken that I can gain so much after one bad day.

I was all ready for giving up but a colleague at work who is also doing SW gave me a bit of a boost so I'll give it another week.