Lmao, yes, I felt a bit like that :-) They are great though, neoprene are the best imo, they don't make you sweat and fit well - most of them have reflective areas too so that if you're running later in the year you get spotted!

me toooooo :-(

I want to lose around 2 stone. Been doing my 30 day shred DVD for the past week and a bit, as well as healthy eating. I lost 4 lb last week ;-).

Unfortunately I got a bit too tempted by the vending machine earlier when I bought two chocolate bars. Silly me :-(

Hey all, I started the couch to 5k programme recently as well - getting on well with it so far - but the first few didn't half knock it of me and remind me what a couch potatoe I have become over the course of the PhD!

A guy called 'Robert Ullrey' has designed a set of free podcasts available on iTunes and called them (no points for originality) 'podcasts for running'. They are brilliant - he takes you along the whole programme and tells you when it is time to run/walk etc - with a bit of background music in between. The guy has become my new hero! I think he has a website as well if anyone on the forum doesn't use an ipod...

I know I would never have started it if it was down to me - like you sneaks, messing about with a watch would be a right pain - I can't go wrong with this, just download the weekly podcast and away uou go!

I'm trying to get to the 100 situps a day. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh I can just about manage 40 at the moment. On the plus side my tummy doesn't seem quite so all over the place.

Yay, C25K takes over the world :-) It is very good - a friend got me into it and I laughed at her.... the same friend then sent me a 10k one and I'm still looking very nervously at the later weeks and thinking something along the lines of errrr yeh.... ;-) But hey, she managed it and if she managed it then I can! She now considers running 5k to be a quick jog around the block rotten moo.

DanB, it will come :-) Don't forget to do reverse crunches as well as straight ones or you'll get all uneven. Its more about technique than number - I struggled with 10 when I started them but now can do quite a few more and they pull you in pretty quick - make sure you exercise your back too though, very important!

Oh, and do planks! You'll be amazed how much that will help you with the crunches :-) hold for as long as you can then repeat, you'll see the time you can hold them shoot up :-)

Dominos got the better of me :-(

Yoghurt and fruit tomorrow ! (turkey)

It's obvious to gain weight while most of us are on the desk most of the time. I do aerobics for 30-40 minutes in the morning. I could lose 5.5 lbs in 1.5 months :) The mission continues....

well I'm not supposed to go jogging, my spinal surgeon said it was a big NO, but then he also said I had to lose weight. And as I am plateuing after 3 weeks of 1000kcals a day, I've ordered an iphone arm band thing to start couch to 5k.

I must be more concerned with staring than most, because I'm currently trying to work out a 'jogging outfit' that will not show sweatyness or make me look like an idiot - all the joggers I see seem to think they suddenly have to dress in lots of lycra - not for me!

Wow I didn't realise that this thread would hit a nerve with so many forumites. Sneaks are you allowed to use the cross trainer instead of jogging? Stressed that is amazing progress -keep it up (up)
I achieved both goals 1 & 2 yesterday AND this morning my scales said that i was that I'm 0.7kg lighter!! Although I'm sure that's all just water.

So no gym today - just a long dog walk and then back to the gym tomorrow!!

Yeah I can us a cross trainer. I was going to buy one (I have a great recumbant exercise bike already) - but I can't afford it. And I don't see any point in joining a gym. I've been told not to use rowers, treadmills, weights of any kind, no sit ups etc etc. So that leaves me with bike (which I have already) and the cross trainer.

So I guess I'll try the jogging. If I end up in agony I'll stop, but I really want to lose a few stone by xmas.

I went away for the weekend and had (hangs head in shame) an indian takeaway, a meal out on the saturday and mcdonalds for lunch on sunday.

So back on the diet today. My armband thingy arrived and have persuaded hubby to do couch 2 5k thing, so we're going to start that at the weekend - he looks like a walking corpse he's so knackered from work at the mo, so don't want to make him do it after work this week.