I'm of the work out camp myself. I don't go out of my way to diet, but I will get low fat or light cream cheese, sour cream, etc. Then again, I can't seem to get myself to eat anything that doesn't taste good, so if it tastes like crap, I'll stick with the regular instead. I did belong to a gym for a couple months and would hit the precor machine for a half hour a day, which was all I could spare since I went during my lunch hour at work. I could tell it was starting to make a difference, but due to loosing that job, I lost the membership as well.
Also, I wasn't able to be consistant with working out (when I had the membership), I'd do my best to go every day (weekday), but due to being an Admin and having a lot of work to do, or working through lunch/meetings, I had to drop the abs class because it was only for 15 minutes during the time I'd normally go. That and I'd try and go after work, before, which worked a couple times. But as I said, it was a short 2 months, and I haven't been back in the gym since then. I've found that when I used to play volleyball, even once a month, that helped keep my metabolism up and I didn't gain a whole lot of weight. Course that was before I was presribed the nasty steroids that caused me to gain so much weight. UGH
A good tip to help with the water is, fill a bottle with water, then freeze it over night. You'll have ice water all day long. I've found that has helped me drink water at work, vs pop.
Now I can't find a resonably priced gym. They all seem to run around 50 a month, or somewhere around there. Ballys has to be the worst of them. I practically ran screaming when I went in for a free pass. They wanted me to sign up for a year, with out having been there before, plus they added on all this crap they sold, viatmins, muscle gain crap, etc., despite the fact that all I wanted to do was go in, work out the leave. Not take any crap that I didn't know what it was, much less didn't want period. So if I either can find a resonably priced gym, or get my own precor machine, I'll have to just see volleyball as more than a league, it'll be my workouts also.
