I got the Tony Horton P90X extreme stuff and I couldn't even tell you what's on the first video. Unless you proactively set up a panel and a player in a gym area, you'll never use these sort of videos.

We've got loads of aerobics, yoga, pilates, etc videos - waste of money.

Well Kev, you must have inspired me.  Started cycling into town on my BMX to play Tennis.  Bugger coming up the hill home with only 1 cog though 

I also have found the video workouts and the home gym equipment difficult to stick. Fortunately I have  found that a little cross-training (outdoors) works quite well for me.

When I started my "time to get fit" program (read: OLD FAT GUY) I cycled eight miles and truly thought I was going to die. Had to walk my bike four times and the eight mile loop took over one hour. My loop is a bit hilly but certainly not overly challenging for anyone in decent shape.

But somehow I stuck with it and have since extended myloop to eighteen miles and can cover this distance in about 63 minutes. This year I have added two or three running work outs per week that average about five miles. This Thursday I will run in a 10K road race and I am hoping for a 50-55 minute time.

But any success i may have enjoyed clearly enters around the "Eat to Live" diet by Dr. Joel Furhman. Without this change in how I approach eating and the foods I choose, all the exercise in the world would never have worked IMHO.

I can share other points if anyone is interested.

Best regards to all!

John

  All great advice here; who can disagree with any of it? Just about all are common sense. Realize that as we get older our metabolism slows down - what I gobbled down when I was in my 20's - 30's  and didn't gain any weight from, would make me look like Fatty Arbuckle today.

  Not that I always adhere to it, but I have found that it's better/healthier/sheds weight to (in no particular order):

  Eat smaller meals, more often.

  Skipping breakfast is counterproductive.

  Eat the minimally processed foods, fresh foods - vegetables, fruits, fish,chicken, leaner cuts of beef. When the ingredients label has more ingredients than phonebooks have names; avoid.

  Pasta and bread - being Italian-American grew up with having pasta everyday as our first course. Skip or minimize the breads with meals; keep pastas down to once or twice a week.

  Limit alcohol intake. I never touch the hard stuff   -  whiskey, vodka, gin, but have developed a "fondness" shall I say, for good red wine with my dinner. Which is a good thing - maybe a glass a day, but darn if I (actually my wife and I) won't finish  the  bottle ( 2.5 glasses). Soooooooooooo, we try and keep the wine with dinner for Saturday nights or special occasions. BTW, excessive alcohol adds tons of weight, destroys your liver and raises your blood pressure.

  Try not to make your dinner the heaviest meal of the day - I think lunch should be - but it never works our that way for me and I guess most of us. So, I try not to have dinners too late. That's pretty easy as the older I get (59 and 3 days -  but who's counting ). Will be strenuously fighting never to be in the  4PM dinner crowd though.

 I like the Greek yogurts - I think of some of the brands out there and  see them as nothing more than as sugar, chemicals and a bit of pro-biotics.

 Portion control. We have a set of old dinnerware from my wife's grandmother - the plates are about 9" in diameter. Anything newer is about 11" - 12" in diameter. Not that I use the 9" plates, or don't always practice portion control is besides the point. Fact is we eat too much.

 It's ok to overeat on a weekend or once in a while; if you eat well other times, your body can absorb that w/o problems.

 I avoid just about all the fast food type places; not just the obvious culprits - MacDonald's, Burger King, Arby's, but have found that most other type of fast food chains - Friendly's, Taco Bell, etc have little that is not fat laden.

 Excercise - anything is better than nothing and as Sean mentioned - find something you enjoy doing consistently and will Miss's if you don't and do something else when you can't engage in your favorite exercise.

 Realize that "diets"  - most of them anyhow, will work, but the key  to keeping it off is not "dieting" but rather lifestyle change.

 Bob

 Thanks, Woodguy!

Bob

We'll it seems I hit a motivational plateau ...

Hovering just on 92Kg, One carrot done, but the horrific mistake of ordering the second carrot and having it turn up early

BIG MISTAKE !

So I'm going to forget about carrot 2 (yeh - in all honesty there were carrots 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, etc) and just make a solid target of carrot 3. Yes I've committed to the purchase, deposit of $500 down on the most beautiful Naish SUP, a NALU 10'6.5 GT with a Kaholo Vario 8" paddle (and all of the other necessary bits).

So I get to throw $200 at the SUP shop every time I shed a kilo for the next 10 kilos. Hmmm - bargain ?

That's righ - bad weather, then bad memory. This weekend for sure!

Bondi is RUBBISH !!! 

That's the dirty southern side of Sydney, I'm on the northern beaches.

Bondi is a 45~50 minute drive south from my place, three much better and uncrowded beaches are a short walk from my door.

That may sound a little egotistical, but Bondi is easy to get to for the majority of the people living in Sydney and doesn't have the best of breaks. Where we live is a very strategic choice, away from the masses and on the border of a huge headland that separates breaks that are influenced by northerly and southerly swells. Result is the best range of surf, paddle, sail, kite, dive and fishing options in a wide range of conditions. I even have a protected open ocean boat ramp about 500m from my place - stupidly the last boat I had way WAY TOO BIG to launch there, but I'll get a more practical one soon.

Now having said all of that, on an international standard, Bondi is impressive and I'd be happy if it stays that way and the northern beaches stays a little isolated!

Done. DHL tracking number 3409834058633 ... Honest 

I'm slack, I'm slack ...

Some of the stable ... forgot to take pics over the weekend !

Nice Kev, real nice.  I like the Yeti myself.

Cheers for the pics.

Wish I'd got the 500 .. I got the 800 "because it's got a touch screen" and wish I hadn't ... you kinda get locked into a level of touch expectation with Apple iOS.

On diet - all true ... but don't neglect the fact that Guiness is a great source of iron, which is critical to your wellbeing.

"Ghost" racing is a great motivator - I've been doing it on the rower ... initially you think it's a gimmick (maybe it is), but it works on me!

On a fitness related side note .. check out this thread meandering on a post I made locally ... how could you be upset

http://www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Stand-Up-Paddle/SUP/Best-wife-board-to-go-with-a-Naish-Nalu-1065/

A little background. 
I used to have a 32" waist, still do in my mind.  . But over time in my early 40s it got to be over 38" when I realised that on a holliday  I was so shocked I went on a diet and got back down to a 32". 

Some years roll by and up goes my weight and blood pressure. The Doc. puts me on a mild medication, I say if I loose 10kg will I still need the meds? He says no but you can't loose the weight. So I drop 12kg in 12 weeks and gradually drop the meds. No problem. 

A few years later up goes the weight BMI over 32! So I go back on my calorie and portion control diet and loose enough to not be fat. 

Fast forward to last year. My BMI gets to be over 30! I think OK  I'll go back on my calorie and portion control diet and loose weight. 4 weeks later I give up as it will not work. 
As my calorie count drops so does my metabolism. So I give up as the same diet that I used before to drop about 1 kg per week did nothing. 

This summer I have a checkup and in mid July. Weight 106kg BMI 33.8.  I also work with no shirt on during the summer as it is hot in Thailand. The pics my wife took show me that I am fat and it is ugly.
Enough is enough. 
Calorie control does not work for me now as the older you get the less it works. 
So no calorie control, I can't be bothered with portion control either, doesn't work for me. 
Over my 6 week holiday my weight is now dropping it is a diet that works for me and I am loosing weight.
Today, just over 7 weeks from starting my weight is down to just over 98kg and BMI to 31.4

I still have a long way to go as I hope to get my BMI down to under 28 and that is 13kg away. 

Can I do it? I think I may be able to. 
I don't aim to be fit. I find excersize is boring. But I do use the train instead of my motorcycle to go to work now. So I am getting at lest 30 mins walking in a day

I really happy with my progress in losing weight.  25 lbs since since June and 20 more to go.  I feel so much better already I can't believe it.