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I love, love, love your posts and workout suggestions :grouphug: . Will have to look into the doyogawithme site. Thank you for that link.
Michelle, I can fully relate. The holidays have not helped. When it comes to food, I have almost zero self-control. I have found that it's mostly about diet and lowering my caloric intake. Some say that when it comes to weight loss, diet is 80% and exercise is 20%. I think that for me it might even be 90/10. I'm not at all happy about that, since I love to exercise (when I have time), but I also love food. Starting in the coming week, I plan on eating much less and having smaller portions - a Denise Austin plan that seems very simple and straightforward. I really hope that I can stick to it. On that plan, you're not meant to workout intensely or for too long.
If you have body parts that are of specific concern - arms, abs, inner thighs, back fat - I have workout/DVD suggestions for most body parts.
These are what others have posted and what I now works best for me also (when I stick to it, of course and when I improve my eating habits):
"I lost 50 pounds doing only light workouts - Ellen Barrett, fusion, Pilates, yoga, etc., and no cardio.
However, I followed a strict calorie-counting diet. I have always maintained that it's all about the diet, at least for me."
"When I did my Leslie Sansone/Yoga combination last year I was at my absolute slimmest. I went several pounds beneath my goal weight and was tiny, and I'm 5-8 and not naturally tiny. I did it for several months. I am back to Leslie and yoga now because it works."