I pretty much agree with everything that guy says.
Thought I'd just chime in with some personal experience here. I'd let myself get to a pretty sorry state, top end 118 kg. I basically said enough was enough, and got my bike out of the shed and started riding to work - a breezy downhill 10 minute ride in to work, a more difficult 30 minute climb home.
So, last week of September 2009, my 33rd Birthday, 118 kg. Right now, 16th of March, 96.6 kg.
Basically I do about 30 minutes cycling 5 days a week (work commute). And maybe 1 - 2 hours of "liesure" riding on a Saturday or Sunday (~50km distance).
In terms of working out - I don't go to a gym, and never will. I do pushups (close hands, wide hands), squats (varying on weights in hands/arm positions), pullups, and I bought a 1.5m piece of latex rubber that I throw around a pole and pretend I'm on a rowing machine. I work out for 30 - 40 minutes, 2 - 3 times a week.
I gave up drinking beer _every_ day. And I might have a couple over a weekend. I still have pizza and chocolate bars, but I limit the intake of said items. I also started practising intermitten fasting (Basically you have dinner on the thursday night, and on the friday you skip breakfast and lunch, and eat dinner again on Friday night)
Here's a chart for the last few months of weight loss: http://www.arcturus.com.au/weight_trend_%28kgs%29.png
The only thing that I can suggest to you, is, that whatever you choose to do, you have to enjoy it, it must NOT be a chore, and you need to keep doing it indefinitely. Going to the gym was definitely OUT as far as meeting those goals, but getting up before my kids, and spending 30 minutes doing calisthenics, 2 or 3 times a week? I can do that for the rest of my life.
ps I hate to run.
Thought I'd just chime in with some personal experience here. I'd let myself get to a pretty sorry state, top end 118 kg. I basically said enough was enough, and got my bike out of the shed and started riding to work - a breezy downhill 10 minute ride in to work, a more difficult 30 minute climb home.
So, last week of September 2009, my 33rd Birthday, 118 kg. Right now, 16th of March, 96.6 kg.
Basically I do about 30 minutes cycling 5 days a week (work commute). And maybe 1 - 2 hours of "liesure" riding on a Saturday or Sunday (~50km distance).
In terms of working out - I don't go to a gym, and never will. I do pushups (close hands, wide hands), squats (varying on weights in hands/arm positions), pullups, and I bought a 1.5m piece of latex rubber that I throw around a pole and pretend I'm on a rowing machine. I work out for 30 - 40 minutes, 2 - 3 times a week.
I gave up drinking beer _every_ day. And I might have a couple over a weekend. I still have pizza and chocolate bars, but I limit the intake of said items. I also started practising intermitten fasting (Basically you have dinner on the thursday night, and on the friday you skip breakfast and lunch, and eat dinner again on Friday night)
Here's a chart for the last few months of weight loss: http://www.arcturus.com.au/weight_trend_%28kgs%29.png
The only thing that I can suggest to you, is, that whatever you choose to do, you have to enjoy it, it must NOT be a chore, and you need to keep doing it indefinitely. Going to the gym was definitely OUT as far as meeting those goals, but getting up before my kids, and spending 30 minutes doing calisthenics, 2 or 3 times a week? I can do that for the rest of my life.
ps I hate to run.