What's the best way to lose that half a stone which has crept on, and taken up residence on my back?!?

Question

In September I left my previous job in retail (salesfloor based) and I'm now doing a sit down office job. In the last few months, I've put on half a stone very very gradually. My friend worked out that I was probably walking about 4-5 miles per day in my last job. My diet has not changed.

I have developed flab on my back which definitely wasn't there before! I have quite likely lost muscle tone and replaced this with fat. I'm about 5'7" ish, and my scales on average show 9st 9lb most mornings. I don't want to lose loads of weight, I just want to get back down to 9st where I was before! I've started going to the gym, eating more fruit and veg (instead of rubbish) and drinking more water.

But are there any exercises I can specifically do to lose the weight which has made itself at home on my back? Or at least to just tone it up? I'll be on the beach in a bikini at the start of August, so I'm hoping 8 weeks will be enough time to shift it.

Other things to mention:

I never leave the house without breakfast! Im eating muesli rather than loads of sugary rubbish.

I'm involved with my local theatre so haven't got much in the way of spare evenings to spend my whole time exercising!

And further details!

My theatre occupies about 3-4 nights a week. By the time I get home from work, I have about half an hour to eat and then get out the door again. My local gym and pool closes well before my rehearsals finish. So any suggestions that I can fit in an hour between finishing work and going out again are completely impractical. It opens at 8am, and to be in work for 9, I need to leave the house before 8.

I am also vegetarian and don't eat fish.

Answer 1

eat less, exercise more.

or surgery.

Answer 2

you can sit at your desk clenching all sorts of muscles which will help tone you up. I have an office job and use any excuse to walk away from my desk. I drink loads of water so I'm always going to the water machine and cos I drink loads of water it's no surprise I visit the bathroom quite alot. just getting up and down all the time burns energy. Use the stairs instead of lifts (if that's poss) and go for long walks in your lunch breaks. Some of this might not be helpful if you have a very strict boss though. good luck

Answer 3

i could propose the P90X eating habitual (even regardless of the undeniable fact that P90X is meant for muscle improve). decrease out each little thing undesirable, no goodies, no sugary beverages, no longer something of the type. Take a great form of carbohydrates, so consume pasta etc. And maximum heavily exercising like loopy, get a health club club, circulate conventional, work out no longer difficulty-free. however the subject with it is that muscle weights extra desirable than fat, consequently you will get bodily extra fit and lost a great form of fat, yet you're weight would be the comparable or extra. the only way otherwise to do it so directly is to starve, consume and apple an afternoon or some thing (very unrecommended)

Answer 4

I'm a business partner in a gym in NZ. If you're going to a gym - spend some money and talk to a Personal Trainer and get a programme set. If back is you're specified target, they'll work with you on that, but will still give you other areas to work on too.

What do you want - a toned back and flabby thighs? Get what I mean?

Answer 5

find daily calorie intake calculator on the net, enter all your stats and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to maintain, take off 300-400cal off that number and thats how much you need to lose.
eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours - it optimizes your metabolism)
5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water
have complex carbs for breakfast - they give you energy
have protein (lean meat, legumes etc) for dinner - repairs muscle
cardio exercise 4-6 times a week for 30-50min (ideally 45min because the first 20-30min body burns carbs and only then starts burning fat), light weight training (more muscle=faster metabolism)
dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, pasta etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried, oily.
ofcourse you can spoil yourself once in a while with a little treat:)

Answer 6

I work in an office all day and i see all the new girls putting on weight,

tip, do not take any treats of people, they always walk round here with cakes and sweets

Tip, Have a proper breakfast so you don't nibble

take the stairs not the lift

It works for me!!!

Answer 7

I have recently taken up swimming and it's better exercise than hitting the gym. The muscle fatigue after an hour is fantastic.

Could you spare an hour a couple of times a week.......?

Answer 8

swim! it's the best exercise for all over toning and specifically works your back , is great for that bit behind your arms which sticks out when you wear a bra

Answer 9

Like I said yesterday - stomach crunches.

Answer 10

more sexual activity-variety of positions- and enjoy losing weight at same time