Besides eating healthy (low-fat), you need to exercise to lose weight. Basically weight loss boils down to burning more calories than you consume. You can lower the calories you consume, by eating lower fat healthy food. At the same time you can increase the calories you burn by exercising. I don’t recommend you jump off the couch, and try to run 10 miles. You need to work into it.
My wife has pretty much been a couch potato for a bunch of year, and eating unhealthy at the same time. Guess what! She’s overweight! Real surprise there. But she has been starting to practice healthier eating habits. I have tried to get get her to exercise. I bought her a cheap treadmill, but she didn’t like it. She liked playing video games, so I bought her Dance Dance Revolution hoping she would get into that. She did play a it a few times. Just a few times. I bought her a better treadmill. She used it a few times. Again, just a few times. I ended up using the treadmill (I am scheduled to run 24 miles tomorrow! ack!). I bought her an elliptical trainer. HIT! She uses it!!!! I bought her a used but quality bicycle late last year, and have overhauled it over the winter in hopes that she would get into riding. ANOTHER HIT! We have been going on bike rides together!!! I got her to sign up for swimming which she had been talking about for a long time! HIT!!!! She has been going swimming! I keep kidding her that with the swimming, bike riding, and elliptical she is training for a triathlon and doesn’t even know it! LOL!
I am proud of her though. I just hope she keeps it up. She is doing a great job!
try mountain biking, that’ll give you a good workout.
Comment by chad — March 18, 2010 @ 6:33 am
Mountain biking…that would be a start! Try training for an Ironman Triathlon.
Comment by Rob — March 18, 2010 @ 6:39 am