@noob:
Please don't live off of frozen dinners, they're pure nutrition-less trans-fat saturated EVIL. D:
If you have the means to, shift to whole foods. The less processed, the better, that's the general consensus.
I try to stick with the healthier options but… microwaving food zaps so many nutrients out of the food anyway, it's probably useless. I'm living at home at the moment and my mom has the fridge completely filled with her shit, I can have very little on hand at one time. Eating a clean, balanced, whole-food diet with shittons of exercise everyday is the key to getting the weight off for me, and I'm failing at both ends. The garage is completely full of her garbage but I hope to have that taken care of by the end of this month, I'll get a freezer and a second fridge and have a way to keep my food options open.
@Steven:
You said you can't make it to the gym in time, but is any sort of lifting an option? Do you have any light weights at home or would you be open to getting them?
I have a set of hand weights only, I'd like to get a bar. I can do curls with the bar, but sometimes other free weights and equipment really screw up my neck and leave it with horrible spasms. I'm finally hopefully having that issue discovered and dealt with next week, it's something I've had problems with for about 6 years now. I can't even tolerate having the phone up to my ear at work most days. My doctor advised to be careful with the hand weights, as I really wanted to incorporate curling while walking.
@Jewelery:
Planks and stabilization exercises would be a lot better IMO.
I completely agree. This gives me the best results and actually increases strength.
@DartG:
This^
If you don't have any weights, but you buy gallon milk jugs, here's what you do. Save the milk jugs, fill them with water. Should be around 8lbs each. Fill it with dirt and it should be around 12-15lbs. Curl the shit out of them.
A gym to me is more about being social, otherwise everything you'd ever need to workout can be bought for around $100 or cheaper on craigslist, which pays for itself and saves you a ton of money if you're already paying for a gym membership. If you don't want a bodybuilder type of physique, you can get by with just 30-40lb dumbbells.
I'm hoping that once we get the house fixed after the damages the flood caused, I can invest in some weights because I'll finally have room to keep them. I end up sleeping past my alarm a lot (like today I set my alarm for 9 AM… I woke up at 2 PM) and screw myself out of a lot of gym time. I'm exhausted from work. Having the equipment on hand will help me a lot once my personal training sessions end, then I can just mostly go the gym for cardio.
I'm only paying $17 a month for this place, it has very limited hours so going after work or on the weekends when I'm working too is never an option. I don't think it's worth investing $40-50 a month again for something I won't use very often.
@ShinigamiKing:
getting a fridge is an important step, no joke. It takes the time of you preparing one meal off. So instead, by the ingredients, prepare 'em, and put them in the fridge so that when you want to eat, you just cut some and warm up.
that saves time that you can use for exercise.
Completely agree. I want to go back to where I spend a chunk of one way prepping a week's work of food and just having it on hand for when I need it.
I've probably answered my own questions. I need to find ways to work-out when I can't hit the gym (which I can do) and get that freezer so I can store healthier food choices :P