[Solved] Exercise routines - we need to be fit for our kids

Ok Gary, the idea of this sounds good. But with an every growing waste line I'm gonna need you to start me off. I do a couple of weeks but struggle to get a routine going? Help!

Hi what kind of stuff do you do? what kind of routines?

Interesting thread!
The closest I get to a routine is:
- we run out of milk / bread / cheese
- I load push chair with one of our kids
- do a round trip of 1 and a half or 2 hours, usually detouring to feed the ducks, have a coffee.
- it is a very gentle workout, sometimes pushing up hill is a minor workout.

The amusing thing is I got 3 years gym membership but I have had 2 failed attempts at using it... I have a bit under a year left on the membership. doh!

Last year I lost 2 and a half stone. I did this by not mixing carbs and fat, for example if you have a roast dinner just eat the meat and veg as much as you want, or steak and salad. I had porridge for breakie that was my carb meal then no more carbs. There are carbs in veg but thats ok. I also stopped drinking booze for 8 months. I joined a gym not for the gym but for the pool and I got a really good deal on the net , I could use the gym but not keen, prefer to swim ssome days theres only me there , its bliss, I swim then go in the whirlpool then steam room. Cut out bread, biscuits chips and no process food its full of rubbish, you need to plan ahead your meals. I never go hungry , Ive just had 4 rashes of bacon 2 eggs and mushrooms and toms this is classed as a fat meal . I do drink now but my hubby has converted me to real ale only the pale ones .

Aaaargh....I've gone from a size 12 to a size 16 in three years when I stopped smoking! I try to cut things out and eat sensibly but my partner goes out to the shop for "treats" when I dont get them in! We're as bad as each other! 👿

I think I'm going to make a New Years Resolution, theres no way I can deprive myself over christmas!

10 years ago, when I met my wife, I was just over 40 and working for YMCA in London, so I had free use of a gym and swimming pool. I was there every lunchtime at least 4 times a week and was eating sensibly, and I was the fittest I have ever been in my life - 26" waist, 6 pack, the lot. Now it's all gone - 2 1/2 stone heavier and my excercise is limited to a 20 minute brisk walk each day with the dogs - and since I now work for a chocolate company, the eating sensibly has gone 😀

Won't be making a new years resolution, but I do have the stirrings that I ought to do something. Maybe one day. :unsure: