One of the authors of this blog has been wanting to lose weight for the last 6 months and finally, 2.5 months ago, found a simple way to lose weight… eating healthily and exercising!
It came down to simple common sense where I changed my diet to only be one mini-treat a week (eg. a small plate of low fat and reduced sugar ice cream, no chocolate sauce etc), with a large lunch and filling breakfast and then a smaller dinner (remember you’re eating to give your body fuel throughout the day - you don’t need to fuel yourself for sleeping ) with a couple of small snacks of fruit or popcorn (no butter or salt) in between main meals. Also added to the diet was at least 100 minutes of continuous aerobic exercise a week (usually done in 20 - 30 minute sessions), followed by 20 minutes of weights.

The weights included 3 seconds of pulling/pushing where the exercise had the most resistance, then hold for one second, then back slowly to starting position. 12-15 reps of this, where the used muscles are shaking is enough to tone up those areas, burn calories (you’ll notice this because your heart is pumping in between exercises), and build strength which is awesome if you have children and want to have more energy and strength to play with them.WithWith

With regard to the food, eating smaller amounts helped me to lose weight. Having a ‘big stomach’ and being able to eat more than my friends (who were bigger than me) made it tough to reduce because I wouldn’t feel full afterwards. But as the old saying goes “wait 20 minutes and your stomach will consider itself full” and I put this to the test and successful.
So, starting at 74kg, being 170cm tall, BMI indicates this is overweight - the largest i have ever been, I kept up a steady diet, healthy snacks and regular exercise and lost 10kg so far in just over 2 months and I’m feeling happier, healthier and full of endorphins and adrenaline all the time.  I’m seldom hungry and yet my metabolism has increased!  By doing pectorial weight exercises (helps lift the breasts), my chest size hasn’t decreased very much either - I’m still the same cup size AND my fingernails have grown longer and now look sexy and feminine - I used to be a nervous chewer!

I’ll write another post with what I eat shortly