If you had a choice of getting a year off of work OR being your ideal weight for your age? Your choice????????

Answer 1

Well I had the best of both worlds as I took a year off work to get to my ideal weight. I have had two children and after my first child couldn't lose the weight. I was so wanting to get back to my ideal weight that after my second child I started going to the gym 6 times a week for at least 1.5hrs & really learning about it all.

I am now studying to be a personal trainer and have combined work and ideal weight together. My aim is to maintain my weight for life with healthy eating and exercise routines. Here is the plan I followed:

If you want to do this it is for life so you need to totally change your way of eating and exercising. This is not a diet rather than a healthy eating plan for life. So no more talking diet cause it means time limit. Stop making some major mistakes wake up earlier and get active earlier your metabolism is sluggish and needs to be woken up this is half your problem.

Here are the golden rules:
Initially cut down to 1200 calories.
Exercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved.
Don't eat carbs after 4pm, never eat carbs within 2 hours of exercise or within 1 hour of exercise.
Drink 3 litres of water per day. You can have a green tea at the end of the day.
Limit your fruit in take to 2 pieces per day.
Never eat dinner after 6pm.
Adopt of low GI eating plan this is sustainable for life!
Make low fat dairy choices

Follow this menu plan as a suggestion:
Breakfast 7am - 1 cup hot water w lemon
20 minutes later have a bowel of oats w water (no honey) OR
fruit salad w low GI soy yogurt
Snack 10am - pear or apple (both low GI)
Lunch 12.30pm - multigrain sandwich w 50g tuna & salad (no butter)
Snack 3pm - low GI yogurt OR skim berry smoothie (no honey or banana) plenty of ice, 1/2 cup skim milk & 1/4 cup yogurt
Dinner 5.30pm - 120g grilled lean meat/fish/prawns/tofu patties (not fried) w spinach salad & mixed vegies (no whites, carbs) OR 3 egg white/soy omlette with ham, cheese and tomato
Snack - 1 scoop of low cal low fat ice cream (if hungry)

Exercise is must be intense. Refer to www.bodybuilding.com for your weights routine. Never do weights two consecutive days have a cardio day in between.

Cardio needs to include running, go hard up stair wells and cycling. You get the most benefits from exercise when your body is totally fatigued and this is when you see changes.

To maintain you can increase calories to 1500 and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1200 cal and 6 sessions again.

Good luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.

Answer 2

a year off from work would drive me nuts ! Am already of ideal weight... so , i wouldnt want to take either of those choices.. But i would like it if i could take off whenever i wanted to :)

Answer 3

If I get the year off WITH pay, I'll take the year off. I can work on the weight while I'm off for the year.

Answer 4

I'll take the year OFF with pay of course. My weight is not an issue I've had to deal with.

Answer 5

i'd go with ideal weight. you didn't give a time frame for the ideal weight...and it's about time that my chest shrinks with the rest of me! lol. it's exasperating.

Answer 6

being my ideal weight for my age and height!

Answer 7

Off from work, cause then you would be able to work out and diet. But I just got laid off from work, hope it wont be a year..LOL

Answer 8

I'd go for the Holiday Buddy..didn't matter to me how overweight I was...beside's if I was overweight I would have a year off to sort it out!!! Wikkid!..2 bird's one stone..BRILLIANT!!

Answer 9

Paid vacation? Yes.

Answer 10

getting a year off of work . i am so tired with the work

Answer 11

I am overweight and would like an easy solution, I go on a lot of hols anyway!