I really need to lose weight! My boyfriend left me because I’m too fat. I feel awful.

What should I do? I feel like my world is coming to an end.

I had twins a year ago and I’m still trying to lose the extra weight from my pregnancy. No results so far. I`m 5 ft and 5 in, 176 lb and need to lose 30 lb or more. Being a housewife makes me moderately active, right? I want to start a fitness program but I don`t know how much I should exercise  daily. I’ve tried all kinds of diets and none worked as I expected. I feel something doesn`t work right, but what? Any suggestions? Please help.

What is the best and cheap weight loss program?

I'm 235lbs, and want to drop down to 200lbs.

I already do 2 hours of cardio, I just have horrible eating habits.

What should I eat? What should I not eat (obviously no alcohol, no pop, no junk food)

How many calories??

So having decided to wage my war on the flab, I decided to sign up with a Personal Trainer

I went to my very first session with a mixture of excitement, anticipation, and dread! Sara (my trainer) asked me to select which machine I would like to warm up on. I chose the Cross Trainer, but she shook her head explaining she wasn't a fan of that machine due to the un natural movement.... Oh dear. That was my perferred cardio machine! So I chose the rowing machine thinking that I could probably cope with 5 mins of that....

10 minutes later, I heaved myself off the rower!!! If I thought the session was going to be tough... I was right. I had NEVER done more than 5 mins on a rower before in my life... and I still had 40 minutes to go!

I was then thrown into a series of squats, lunges, bench rows, squats with medicine balls, sit ups, press ups, core stuff... I can't list them all, but they were all VERY HARD!!!!

By the time the cool down came, I was ready to collapse. I think Sara could see that, so kindly let me cool down on the bike machine that let's you sit back and relax a bit. She then proceeded to tell me that on a scale of 1 to 10, (with 1 being easy, and 10 being so hard you could throw up) that we had just worked out at about a 3. Great! So it was only going to get harder from here.....!!!

 

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