Packing on the pounds.

It seems that many cultures & people have various ways to keep healthy. It seems that Aerobics is one way, particularly in the US. The Chinese & Japanese have martial arts - sort of like get a good work-out & learn to defend yourself at the same time. "East of Athens" as someone that I know puts it, belly dancing is one heck of a work-out. The thing is, if you can enjoy that, it's exercise that you don't even know that you're doing.

You have to eat to lose weight. If you starve yourself your body automatically goes into survival mode and hangs on to the fat cells already in your body as it doesn't know the next time it will get fed. As others have already advised you it's best to "graze" during the day. Eat a good breakfast - never skip breakfast - and then eat smaller amounts of food every 3 hours. Foods like vegetables, fruit, protein and a little carbohydrate. If you don't like exercising do you like playing video games? If so, get yourself a Wii console (if you don't already have one) and play the wii sports - I guarantee it will get you sweating! Especially the boxing one! Wii has just brought out Wii fitness, something else you can try. Good luck and keep eating!!

I've been having a terrible time this winter as well. I haven't been working and spending a lot of time on the computer to try to earn a few $$$$. It's also been a horrible winter here, cold and snowy for months. I haven't gotten much exercise and have packed on the pounds too. The key is getting up and moving around I guess. Plus being on the computer late at night, I have been known to "snack". Bad Girl!!! The weather is supposed to be much nicer this week, so I'm going to tear myself away from the keyboard and get out and walk and try not to snack. My Gazelle is also stored out it the garage. That's where it landed when we made our big move. I'm going to ask my husband to bring it in, because it is fun and low impact. My cousin and I were just discussing this new gadget called the "Trikke" that looks like it would be a blast. Look it up on You Tube if you haven't seen it. There are some instructional videos showing it off as well as some experts doing tricks. They are really popular right now.

I heard someone talking on the TV awhile ago that not eating helps you put on weight as our bodies are very high tech things, they said it is better to eat many small meals during the day because if you miss meals the body stores what food is eaten for the times when food is denied, it is a survival thing so si think what they were saying is if miss meals your body will store what food you do eat for the times it needs it and this turns to fat so it is better to eat say 6 small healthy meals during the day....sounds logical to me, our bodies are a very complex machine and nature itself does work this way...

keep a food diary of everything that you eat. you might be surprised everything that you eat. if you dont have a lot of money, you could buy weights (they are fairly cheap) and look up some exercises that you could do while you are watching tv.

Well if you like sports you could join some sort of league, you'd have fun and get your excercise, personally i like hitting the weights with a little cardio, that will get you the best results, also since your not doing exercise you may want to change your eating habits if they include fast food at all, cut that out completely or maybe once every couple weeks, but start with a good breakfast, could be a bowl of cereal like special k,cheerios, for lunch you know maybe a sandwich, try to stay away from junky snacks if you get hungry in between, maybe an apple or orange, or yogurt, then a nice protein meal, meat,potatoes,veggies, and if you do hit the gym, depending on what time you go, eat a good carb meal maybe hour before to give you some extra energy and bring along a low carb gatorade/powerade