Losing weight before starting working out was just a suggestion. Sometimes people find it easier to start working out after losing some weight.

Lena, I love love love love weights and when I lost around 70 lbs the year before last, it involved very little cardio and mostly weights. All stuff you probably already know but muscle burns fat, muscle helps define your shape, etc etc. I can understand your frustration, I've been watching my food and exercising for over a month and the scale hasn't budged. I stare at it in disbelief as it mocks me. I have to use other things to measure my improvements such as my clothes fit looser and I notice my endurance is better. How do I go from not watching my food too carefully and irregular exercise to watching the foods I eat and my portions plus adding in regular exercise but yet nothing from the scale? I don't know. Usually you lose weight and then hit a plateau instead I hit a plateau without losing weight.

I am the same way. I hate walking, I hated cardio after a while, I hate kickboxing, I hate hate hate the dance cardio videos, I hate dancing (which explains the former) and probably just about anything else in the same group. I do love Swimming though, but the pool here is always crowded by the time I get up.

My solution was DDR. Dance Dance Revolution who don't know it, is a Video Game where you try to hit some arrows on a pad with your feet to music. I have always been a Gamer and always loved DDR, so when I was looking for a solution for getting in my workout, I thought of it and it works great. The arrows distract me enough so that I don't notice how much my body is tired or hurt, and there are so many songs (and mixes) you can choose from that it doesn't get boring. You can also unlock songs, characters, and etc.

You just have to keep looking untill you find something right for you. My problem was mostly that the pain ended up distracting me too much, so I got something that was distracting! It's not too costly either, around $100 for the game and a good pad (2" foam, don't get the little cheap thin pads that are $10.. get a nice one for $40). That's very good considering I don't have the money to go to a gym every week.

all off subject and not that important.. but If you hate dancing why did you get a dancing video game?? Just the fact that its a video game?

I've been excersizing only since january this year trying to get in 3 runs a week, and although I really like running, just getting myself out the door is still hard. It's like a mental game with yourself and eventually I just force myself to, but I know it's worth it.

Honestly, the only thing keeping me going everyweek was signing up for a race, that way I had to do the training in order to do the race. Now that it's over I'm looking for a new one to keep going. :)

Now working on strength training is another story lol, maybe in the future...