Will this be enough...

newwifey

Hi there
This is my first time posting in the Fitness forum so please be patient with me

Ten moths ago I had my 4th and final child so as you can imagine my figure isn't what it used to be.
Im about 5'6" and weigh 145lbs.
I'm not carrying loads of extra weight but what is there is concentrated around my waist as a spare tyre.

Last September I started walking but in fairness it was a half arsed attempt. I didn't go when it was too wet or cold which fairly much excused me most nights. In February I had a pivotal moment and decided to lose the weight but more importantly get fit.

So im currently in my 4th week of walking. Now when I say walking Im not strolling. Im pushing my self as hard as I possibly can. Im talking runny snot, beetroot face and sweaty hair.

I walk 4 mornings per week for between 45-60 minutes. The routes vary from 2.5 to 3.5 miles and contain flats, steep gradients or sharp hills. I should also mention that Im pushing my two youngest kids in a buggy with a combined weight of 85 lbs:eek:

Personally I don't obsess about the bathroom scales - I don't fixate on being a certain weight or size. However I do judge my progress on how well my old clothes fit me - they currently don't!

Since Im cooking for a family of 6 we eat nutritionally balanced meals. My typical diet is

Breakfast: Cornflakes & allbran with full fat milk small glass of OJ and tea
Lunch: Usually some form of sandwich and tea
Dinner: potatoes/rich/pasta with meat and veg

I don't snack between meals - no biscuits, crisps or chocolate.
I drink between 2-3 L of water per day, no fizzy drinks
I like a few drinks at the weekend but try to abstain during the week.

Im thinking its changing my carb intake that will make a massive difference but I absolutely hate the thought of no rice or pasta. Im very partial to bread like tomato and herb, focaccia, panini etc but wouldnt eat it every day.
Now that the warmer weather is coming Ill eat more salads and try to up my veg intake.

So after that long winder intro my actual question is will the exercise alone be enough to shift the jelly belly? I should mention that I also do one one hour spinning class and one one hour cardio/abs blast class per week too.
Any comments welcome.
Cheers

Assets Model

It is hard quittting carbs you have to be more inventive with your diet but I substituted them with more veg which is obviously better for me and I notcied a huge difference in my stomach which was always bloated before when I gave them up so it's defo worth it.

Tico

i think maybe your not eating often enough to be honest, its very hard convincing people of this but a lot of the reason your body stores fat is due to the fact your body isnt eating at regular intervals so it stores as much fat/energy as possible when it digests the food. If you train your body to eat more regularly your metabolism will rise and your body will not sense the need to store as much bodyfat as it has been. When i say eat i mean healthy snacking, ideally fruit or yoghurts etc. In between your breakfast and lunch have a fruit and yoghurt and the same with between lunch and dinner and maybe tuna after dinner. Once your body gets used to digesting foods every three hours it will lose the bodyfat a lot easier. Normally the longest time you would go without snacking is obviously when your asleep hence when you wake the first meal you take in is "the most important meal of the day", the longer that diet between dinner and breakfast the next day the more reason the body will have to store as much of it as fat as possible ie if dinners at six and breakfast at eight thats 14 hours your body goes without taking in energy which is a huge amount so it makes sense for it to store fat where and when it can

cc87

Diet would be the biggest influence on losing or gaining weight. If you arent already eating brown rice and pasta instead of white this would be a simple change to make.

Also keeping a food diary for a while to get a good idea of the calories your eating would give you a better idea of how to alter your diet.