My plan was to exercise more and to choose healthier alternatives when eating. Personally I think that the exercise was the key. My exercises of choice are running, bike riding, tennis, or Video games on the Wii.

Running is an obvious choice. However sometimes while running I get bored, even while listening to music. So then I started riding my bike more. The benefits of bike riding, was that I could cover more ground and see more interesting places around the neighborhood.

Luckily for me I live out in the country and there are plenty of places that I am able to explore on my bicycle. My third choice of exercise was tennis. I played in high school, so I figured that picking up the sport again would not be that difficult.

When playing I would play both singles and doubles. Singles burns more calories, but I enjoy doubles more because of the social aspect. Also when there was noone to play with I would go hit on the Playmate Ball Machine at the tennis club.

This burnt more calories than singles or doubles combined, simply because there was always another ball coming out. Playing tennis for the first time in 10 years I could see my skills had diminished, but before long I felt as though I was playing better than I had in High School.

Lastly for those rainy days I use my Wii Fit game. They have all sorts of little games to play to get your heart rate up. My favorite part of Wii Fit is the Yoga. My body tends to be a little tight, and after 3 months I can already see a difference in my flexibility.

As far as my diet, as I mentioned before there was no specific diet plan. However when choosing meals instead of the normal hamburger and french frys, I began to eat a sub and yougurt. For breakfast I stopped eating biscuits and gravy or a bagel loaded with cream cheese.

I have began to eat Special K breakfast bars and a glass of all natural orange juice or water. Hopefully if I stick to my plan I can continue to eat foods that I enjoy and exercise my way to a healthier weight.

I tried to go to the fitness centre regularly to lose weight. But as I already suspected right from the start there was always something going on that prevented me to go to the fitness centre.

One day I did not feel so good and the next day I worked over time and so on. I tried to follow a diet that allows you to eat as much as you want. The only thing you have to be careful about is when you eat it.

You are allowed to eat carbohydrates in the morning. So that was my loved chocolate cream on toast. I was really glad I did not have to abandon that habit.

At lunchtime, you can still eat carbohydrates but you should eat more proteins. That was great for me because I could still eat at our canteen without having to take care of what I took.

The absolutely important part came with dinner and everything you may eat after dinner. There, absolutely no carbohydrates are allowed. That means no sugar, no potatoes, no bread, no rice, no noodles …

The carbohydrates are the short term energy of the body. As long as that is in the blood (and that is in the blood for up to 12 hours after you ate them), the body uses those and not the fat you want to lose.

Therefore, as long as you do not eat carbohydrates before bed, the body starts to lose fat during the night when you sleep and you start to lose weight.

Of course, you cannot gorge yourself during the day or it will not work because the body builds up more fat than it uses up.

However, if you just want to lose some kg and easy lose weight it works. At least it did for me.