Time for diet and exercise!

[truthBtold]

Im wondering why my clothes are shrinking??

[NoraBrimstone]

http://www.paulmckenna.com/thin

[truthBtold]

I dont understand. . I bought a workout cd and watched it while I ate.. how is it not working?

[NoraBrimstone]

I dont understand. . I bought a workout cd and watched it while I ate.. how is it not working?

You must be doing it wrong. I lost 900lbs that way. Did you watch so hard it hurt? If it doesn't hurt you're doing it wrong.

[Jacob(smooth)]

Im wondering why my clothes are shrinking??

Apparently it's caused by something called calories. I presume the little Bastards find their way into your wardrobe and alter your clothes while you sleep.

[Aractus]

I still haven't quite worked out my new diet paradigm yet, here's breakfast:


Calories:
Tomato - 22
1/3rd Onion - 15
Egg - 141
Bacon - 86
Pork Sausages - 160
Bread - 70
160g mushroom - 21
Oil (in the scrambled egg) - 81
Milk (in the scrambled egg) - 7
Soy source (in the onion) - 3
Cooked in non-stick pan without additional oil.
Total: 606 calories.

[Clueless Morgan]

For this reason, starting next week I'll have to begin doing more resistance exercises. 60 burpies and 20 pushups 3 times a week isn't going to cut it. I'm thinking 60 burpies, 30 pushups, 1-2 minutes of hyper dumbbell squats 3 times a week (it is really really difficult just to do 1min, I'm not even sure I can do a continuous minute yet since I haven't done them in a while, but I'll work on it). 3 days of bench and other dumbbell upper-body/back/neck/tricep exercises. I don't plan on getting a gym membership, so I'll use workouts that I can do at home with the equipment I have, or with other equipment I can easily buy (maybe I could buy a skipping rope for instance).

They sound super stupid, and I'm not a big fan of hers in general (I think she's annoying and scary-looking), but I got a couple of Jillian Michaels' workout DVDs (30 Day Shred, Banish Fat Boost Metabolism) on super sale so I could have a workout routine on hand at home and she gives you a pretty good workout, assuming, of course, that you're at least moderately challenging yourself.

I also take a class at my local rec center that has a really good routine:

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What you need:
A step or bench (optional)
Two sets of weights, one heavier, one lighter
A mat or towel to lay on

The Routine:
3 minutes - Warmup (variations of step-ups on the bench to get your heart rate up and muscles warm
1 minute - pushups
1 minute - ab warm up
1 minute - fast feet, jumping jacks or other fast-paced exercise to really amp up your heart rate
3 minutes - Squats with heavier weights, varying tempo (single beat; 2-count down and up; three-count down, one-count up; one-count down, three-count up; four-count down and up)
3 minutes - an endurance exercise utilizing light weights*
3 minutes - Chest presses with heavier weights, varying tempo
3 minutes - an endurance exercise utilizing light weights*
3 minutes - Back rows or other back exercsie with heavier weights, varying tempo
3 minutes - an endurance exercise utilizing light weights*
3 minutes - Lunges with heavier weights, varying tempo
3 minutes - an endurance exercise utilizing light weights*
3 minutes - Biceps with heavier weights, varying tempo
3 minutes - an endurance exercise utilizing light weights*
3 minutes - Triceps with appropriate weights, varying tempo
3 minutes - an endurance exercise utilizing light weights*
3 minutes - Core and ab work on the mat
3 minutes - Cool down and stretching

* The endurance exercises generally consist of two exercises of the following type:

Varying patterns of step-ups with some kind of arm press or bicep curl thrown in

• Straight step up, step down
  
• V-steps, step up in a wide stance on the bench, and down to a narrow stance
  
• Step up with high knees, alternating legs
  
• Step up with glut presses to the back of the room
  
• Step up, facing one side of the room, lifting arms and pressing free leg to the side for a hip exercise (I call it the Chicken cause your arms look like you're doing the chicken dance when you do it
  
• Rocking horses (lift right knee, step up with right foot and do a glut press or hamstring curl with left leg, step down with left foot, repeat
  
• Straddles, stepping up and down off each side of the bench
  
• Foot taps, standing on top of the bench and alternating tapping one foot down on either side
  
• etc.
  

Varying squats, sometimes with leg lifts to the front, side or back
Varying lunges, including forward lunges, back lunges, side lunges
Arm flies
Lateral exercises like football shuffles and "speed skating"

Basically anything that gets your heart rate up and that's more on the aerobic side.

This can be a pretty intense work out if you push yourself and don't stop to dilly-dally or do anything other than take a sip of water and change weights. As written about it's right around a 50-minute routine, but you can vary it by doubling up exercises (doing 6 minutes of abs instead of only 3) or adding other muscle groups.

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I need to get in the habit of doing this routine more like three or four times a week rather than just two (and I also need to bump up the intensity, except that I'm battling some injuries), but I'm also running three-four times a week so...