Hi Sterla!!

Firstly YAY for you for wanting some change!!! Wanting it is half the battle, and REALLY wanting it means that you are more likely to stick to your changes!!! This is the second time i have tried the health kick, i was smaller last time i tried, and i wish i had stuck to it and I wouldnt be the 5kg heavier I am now!!! I didnt have as much support last time, but I am hoping this time I will see it all through and reach my goal weight!!!!!!

Like mildez says, small changes make so much difference!! I have noticed that just with watching my calroie intake, as i slowly started replacing all my bad food with good food, my calorie intake just kept going down and down!!!! And now if i even contemplate eating something or im not sure what it will be, i put it in Calorie King to see what it is and i judge by that if i can have it or not!! (the ice cream and milo was a big no no Bugger, it would have been yummy!!!)

I have an excercise bike, just a standard one i got given to me from a friend of a friend (the universe telling me to get my butt into gear lol)- before joining this thread i was doing MAYBE 10 minutes a day, a few days a week, if i was lucky. I dont think it was doing much, but it was kind of good to start slowly. I watched my km's per hour and tried to keep it up over 20kms an hour. I would do intervals where i would go hard for 30 seconds, then take it easy for 30 seconds for a few minutes, and that would wear me out!! Now i tend to just do a steady half hour at a time, and the first few days i was very sore in the legs!! Now I also make sure I walk around the house (we have a house that I can do circles around the lounge/family room and kitchen kind of thing) for a few laps after to help stretch my legs out, and i try to remember to stretch before i get on the bike!! Oh and i have also noticed sice being on there longer i get a sore butt, the seat isnt very comfy!!!!

I hear you on food being hard too!!! DH has been our household chef for years, and would reluctently cook me my crap food, my turn at cooking usually meant pizza or maccas!! Now we have moved further away from his job and he has a longer commute, and some nights doesnt come home at all, so I have taken over cooking!!! So its a learning thing for me, and to be honest frozen pizza or meat vege and mac was really easy to cook, so that's what we have been living on for about the last three months!! So fo rme the first step was to cut out the mac and cheese and the pizza. Still going with the meat and vege, but i am actually eating the vege now instead of filling up on the mac!!! Over time i hope to get more ideas and become a bit more adventerous with food!!

Speaking of food.. snack time!!!!! Going with rice cakes today and low fat philly!!!! Yummo!!!