be careful about what you eat, eat several small meals a day & exercise for 45 minutes to an hour a day. by exercise, i don't mean do 20 minutes of aerobics & call it a quits.. that's a good warm up. lol i'd recommend doing 15 minutes of stretching, 15 minutes of cardio (can be aerobics/dancing/etc) & then lift some weights.. don't rest more than 1 minute between any of those activities or between sets. 1 minute & that's it. i'm not saying that the weights have to be 50 pound dumbells, but by lifting weights, you can sculpt & shape your body however you want.. you also strengthen your bones, muscles & joints. lifting weights also burns more fat than just aerobics alone. by lifting, you can give yourself some nice, toned arms & legs, too!

~ don't lift weights or use stomach crunching machines that have weights on them, because that will make your stomach poof out, like a bodybuilder's (just like if you do bicep curls, your bicep gets bigger & poofs out).. for your stomach, suck in your gut as far as you can (but still breathe) & do as many crunches as you can.. my personal trainer used to have me do crunches til i felt like i wanted to puke (but he practiced what he preached). then you take a day off & do it again. be sure to work out the side stomach muscles (obliques), too!

and there ya go. that's a guaranteed way to shed pounds. heck, i bet even walking your dog (if you have one), would be a good starting point. turbo jam, sweat into the oldies, walk away the pounds, bodies in motion (i love gilad lol).. watch the fitness channel & exercise with those people.. personally, i like gilad (his accent makes me laugh lol).. i also like that guy that does the ball exercises.. i feel like such a dork bouncing around on that big ol' ball, but it's so fun!! surely you could find something that worked for you on the fitness channel. oh, i also like the belly dancing stuff.. if you have netflix, you could just rent some exercise dvd's & see what you liked that way, too.

have a good one!!!

~ Candy