Damn, I am so out of shape.

[Dagan]

I hated my gut and got rid of it. Nothing, and I mean nothing worked for me per all of the popular diets and exercise until I found out for myself. For the sake of sharing - Low Sodium diet - No heavy starches (simple as replacing every sandwich bread with thin wraps - vege noodles instead of the regular kind) - Eat more green vegetables ....only exercises I do are planks, pushups, curling free weights, jumping jacks, walking more than I used to, flutter kicks and bear plank leg lifts - most of this is using your own body weight against itself - I only put in 15 to 30 minutes of the specific workouts every day. Every other day is fine, of course.

The second hardest part is saying no to sweets, but I have never been one for candies, ice cream, can't even have chocolate and junk. My sweet tooth product is coffee with a flavored creamer, just not the milk based kind - and coffee being a diuretic, it obviously helps keep me flushed and regular, if you will.

You can do this. I swear by the old saying of 30 days to form a habit, and that's really what it took. I forced a new routine upon myself, which as we all know...isn't easy for us at all...and that was the primary hardest thing to do.

P.S. I know that in another thread that I just asked for a corn bread recipe, haha. I do have my cheat meals. I just put in more work after the fact, honestly.

 

[Aspychata]

I think the PO struggles with some pain issues. So just the fact he signed up with gym is a giant plus.

 

[oregano]

The reason why alcoholics tend to become fat is that alcoholic beverages are made by cooking grains, usually wheat and barley, with water. Of course the grain used is the cheapest stuff available, such as GMO wheat. This means that the finished brew is full of "empty calories", and then you drink it, and when people become addicted those "empty carbs" build and build. Your body then can't handle the empty carbs and turns them into body fat. Once an alcoholic finally puts down the bottle, they look at themselves and say "holy cow, I'm fat!". All you can do is eat nutritious food and stay away from the booze and fast food. It will take your body a while to adjust to not being sloshed all the time. The turtle wins the race.

 

[oregano]

As for soda, do some googling on "high fructose corn syrup". Drinking a Coke is literally drinking poison. The bottlers have to put other chemicals in with HFCS so it won't kill people. That's why so many people are drinking soda from Mexico-HFCS is illegal in Mexico, so sugar syrup is used. That's really not that much better, but at least it doesn't come from the factory with a skull and crossbones on the drum. (Yes, really!)