[jdfreefly]

Over the last two years I've gone from 220 to 190. The only change I've made was to start riding my bike to work. Granted, I am fortunate enough to live somewhere that makes that possible. Since making the change I now think that I won't move somewhere that I can't do that (at least most of the year), and I won't take a job that won't allow for it.

I have proven conclusively to myself that I am incapable of following a regimented exercise plan. I need to be forced/tricked into it. I don't think of the ride to work as exercise, I think of it as "going to work". In that way, I've managed to trick myself into about an hour and a half of exercise per day that I ride into work.

The downside is having to buy all new clothes, but the upside is I no longer need an inhaler to have sex.

[wdewind]

Just want to point out that this is 1.5 hours a day of exercise. It's great that you trick yourself into doing that, but its a huge time commitment. Any exercise for 1.5 hours a day for 2 years would have similar effects.

Maximizing time, you'd be much better waking up a bit earlier, lifting, and driving to work (though you'd have to find a new trick :P )

[pmccool]

Ah, but some of the exercise time is time that would be spent commuting anyway. That's one major advantage of commuting-as-exercise.

[raintrees]

I dropped 10 pounds by cutting all alcohol intake. No other changes, in general. And stabilized at that weight for more than a year.

I guess the ice cream in my twice weekly coffee goes next...