About 5 weeks ago we decided to start a new routine. We are going to PCB in August and both my girlfriend and I felt we were out of shape. Basically what we started doing was walking 5-6 times a week. Some days we walk 2 miles, the most we ever walked was 6 miles. Usually we walk 3 or 4 miles. Every now and again we jog for a bit. Usually no more than 1/8 of a mile. Some times we just talk, most of the times we wear our headsets. She listens to audio books, I listen to whatever. Usually fast songs like Rob Zombie, Megadeth, The theme song from Mortal Kombat or the movie 300 etc.....
I recently started doing 10 push-ups every 1/2 mile. Today we walked 3 miles and I did 60 push-up. This is a great way to lose weight. We get out of the house (I work 3rd shift and I work from home so getting outside is a good thing) we spend a bit of time together, and it usually only takes us 45min to and hour and half depending on how far we decided to go.
In addition to this we have changed our eating habits. We try to eat low calorie food. We always buy the Lite version of things and read the nutritional content. A typical breakfast includes fat-free vanilla yogurt, with fresh blueberries and granola. Good stuff. For dinner we eat lots of stir fry's. We use 1 chicken breast and lots of vegi's. It tastes great and it doesn't have a lot of calories since it's mostly vegi's. We also eat thing like chili dogs! We buy the lite buns, the turkey hot dogs and some fat-free chili bean sauce that has like 10 calories a serving but is suprisingly great tasting. Throw on some mustard and onions and you have a meal. Man it's great and you can eat like 3 fat chili dogs and only consume 300 calories!! Good deal.
So far the results have been awesome. I don't have a scale, but already when I look in the mirror, I don't shake my head at the pot belly and think I need to lose weight. All I think is, man I look like I've lost more weight and how well this is working out. I have more energy and don't groan just getting up from a chair. I feel we still have a ways to go but we still have a few weeks to go before we leave for the beach and I think this year I won't have to worry about wearing hawiian shirts everywhere to hide the man-boobs! LOL