Since last August (when I switched my employer), I’ve focusing more time to taking care of my health, and initially it was not easy to motivate after being more or less idle for the prior 12-14 years. Today, I run about 3 miles each day, and do about 1/2 hours weights every other day at home. I’v never exercised as much as I do today, even when as far back as high school.
It hasn’t been easy to get into this routine, particularly in the first 2-3 months. Part of what helped was peer pressure at work, being surrounded by many late 20ies to early 30ies that are extremely fit and active. I won’t give you advice on what you should do, but I’ll tell you what I did. I threw money at the problem for the first 2-3 months and got myself a personal trainer 2-3 times a week for the first two months, so that she would kick the crap out of me and make me stick to a routine, no matter how busy I said I was. Also,, spending good money on it, I took it more serious. After about 2 months, I got into my routine, and I haven’ looked back.
My goal was not weight loss, but to build up my cardio, to be able to run a reasonable distance, and to get toned up. Weight loss was a side benefit. I’m about 25 lbs less than I was in August of last year, and most of my pants are way too big now, and I had to change some of my belts because they were too big. I’m wearig pants back when I had them since my college freshman year.
I found out that once I started to get into this routine, surprisingly I felt less hungry, and don’t eat as much. Diet is a very important thing. I wouldn’t do a crash diet since those don’t work. But you should consider eating healthier, and eatting less for dinner (for example).
No soda, no beer, no cakes, no sugar, no high carb foods.
I haven’t had any problems maintaining my weight. My biggest problem is i trying to undo years of neglect around my abdomen.
