*spinoff* If you are a personal trainer, or you use a personal trainer...

[zephani]

Your lunch isn't the best meal for weightloss. Baked beans would be better than spaghetti, but personally I would do something like canned Tuna or salmon, or grilled chicken breast (size of your palm) with salads (no dressing, or very very minimal ie a teaspoon). For breakfast I would have a bowl of oats. Keeps you fuller for longer and just a great breakfast all around especially as you are exercising.

As for exercise, I do YouTube work outs. I love the "8 minute abs" workout. There's also 8 minute arms, legs etc.

HTH

My lunch example was only one day. Usually I would have tuna or lean ham on cruskits with a side salad or fruit and youghurt. For breakfast it is usually fruit and yoghurt or Uncle Toby's Plus Essentials for Women and skim milk.

I need to look into some of those 8 minute workouts.

I thought you had treadmill?? I know you have some stairs in your home!

Oh yeah, and skipping is deadly! I got a rope a while a back and used it a few times and boy oh boy is that exhausting!

I do have a treadmill and I use it often. One of the things I've been wondering is if I need to change or up the exercise to increase weightloss. Walking and treadmill is the same time of exercise. Maybe I should do the weights or kickboxing video workout on the days that are raining?

do u have any exercise equip at home?

I have a treadmill, which I mentioned above and we have a wii fit but I need to buy another workout game or something as I am getting bored with the one that I have.

Btw Mish I need to tell you that your posts often have me LOL IRL

[BigRedV]

Walk on an incline on the treadmill or jog for 30 seconds, rest, jog but increase speed by 0.5km after each 30 second rest.

[bumMum]

Under 1200 (particularly if there's lots of exercise) will lead to the body storing fat as it's in starvation mode.

is that actually true? because people always say that, but i starved at the beginning of this pregnancy. actually i vomitted anything i ate for about 4 months. most calories i would have kept down in a day was probably 50-100. and I lost heaps of weight.

[DanceInTheRain]

I would have a bigger breakfast. Just over 100 cals is not enough for brekkie. I'd have a filling, nutritious brekkie of approx 300 cals. Mid morning snack 100-200 cals. Lunch 300 cals. Afternoon snack 100-200cals. Dinner 300 cals. If still hungry late at night and you haven't overdone it during the day, have a small protein based snack.

Make all your meals as nutritious as possible using whole foods, fruits, vegetables, spices and herbs. Limit saturated (animal) fat by limiting meat and dairy intake. When you do have these things go for lean cuts of meat, natural yoghurts, low fat milk etc. Limit processed/refined/high salt foods. Try to eat every 2.5-3 hours. Do a range of cardio and weight training, mix it up and keep your body on it's toes. I'd be surprised if you don't lose weight adhering to this type of routine. Good luck!

[Daydream Believer]

Hey! My hubby specialized in workouts using your own bodyweight for resistance, I'll discuss it with him and get back to you. His favourite thin to torture me with is lunges. Walk the length of your biggest room, dropping your back knee as close to the ground as your can. You will feel the burn!!
Also, get a ball and put it between a wall and your back and do squats that way, you can go further down because you can kind of push against the ball on the way back up. (Best with a Swiss ball... I don't know if any other kind of ball would be strong or soft enough). Skipping is great, also, google burpees. They are horrific! And so very good for weight loss. If you're bored of sit ups/crunches, try holding yourself in a pushup position (on your elbows though, as in, put your entire forearm on the ground with your arm bent at the elbow) and hold it for 30 seconds and work up from there. I dare you not to get sore abs from that!
Good on you! That's a lot of weight to lose on your own!
I'm using myfitnesspal and it gives me 1850cals a day, with a goal of losing 1.5pounds a week, and if I go below 1200cals it tells me I'm in starvation mode, but so far I've lost 4.1kgs in 2 weeks and I find that even 1100cals a day is a lot of food.
Keep it up!!!

[tootiredtosleep]

I like Wii Active, it has some boxing which is great for stress release & I don't mind Wii Sports Resort table tennis & sword fighting, again a great stress release.

I've also been doing the biggest loser Dvds and I have found them to be great. They have a bit of everything in them, including boxing and some pyramid training which has bought tears to my eyes.

I have about 11kgs to lose and I am aiming to lose about 3kgs a month. I've cut out all sugar and I feel so much better already.