Hello, never used this forum before. I have prior experience in the gym stopped going when I graduated college in 2010 and wished I should've continued. Last December 2014, I started doing walking and changing my diet. I signed back up to a gym this past March been doing a multitude of exercises created by my fitness instructor as well as me implementing workouts from youtube videos.

I was at 228 dropped to 198, back up to 201. My weight has been going up and down as when I started out working out 3x a week and now been going almost everyday because I have been incorporating new moves into my workout and can't do those new moves at home because there's absolutely no room and a very small apartment with someone else. I even got back into dancing which I did two years of it in high school the dancing is zumba which I love so I do them on a weekly basis. That is going to start changing considering I got a full time job offer and will have to work around my new schedule once I am done with training haven't left my current job yet.

I have been taking a number of different group exercise courses like I said zumba, total body using weights and steps, body sculpting weights steps and cardio, tai chi, started a punch n crunch a bit of kickboxing, cables, cardio, etc, treadmills, ellipticals, and gonna try to add in some new classes. The classes are awesome just a bit much for a person like me with asthma hard to do one jump and already gasping for air. I am always the person who has to rest longer than those who have good lungs. I gotta do what my lungs will allow me to do. I have noticed my breathing has improved certainly not the asthma.

Newer exercises I incorporated is thighs, more abs, and glutes haven't added calves, back (trying to get rid of the fat), or forearms yet. I use an app to weigh myself, log it in, and it gets graphed so I can keep track of my progress I see it goes up and down. I know you get tired after working, but I have been exhausted with these new moves. After gym, I am still catching my breath. I do not take an inhaler my body has been pumped with steroids since age 3 and have no desire for an inhaler anymore - I just drink water adds more oxygen for me. Yes, I always hydrate myself.

My diet: needs to be better but hard on this current part time salary. I used to make my own salads that was getting too costly, so I would buy premade salads at TJ or Sprouts. I do not cook 90% of the cooking ware have no idea what they do or how to use them, but cooking will come later for me. Hopefully, once I actually start the new job I'll see how much I'll be willing to spend on healthy meals. For breakfast, I have gone without or I would eat yogurt and fruit or an energy bar. I do not eat cereal anymore and don't plan on eating it again. I was eating some salads like I said that was getting costly for me to make.

Everything just aches on my body some of the moves I have to modify go back on youtube to find something else. I do use a yoga mat and lay on it to do my exercises even then that still bothers my hips on certain moves. I do not have hip problems at all. I wonder if it is my weight that makes it much harder to do the original exercise before even modifying it? I am wondering for those who have asthma, how did you make your exercise regimen work? I don't do running afraid of that it's embarrassing when I run I am again the slowest runner on the block gasping for air! My doctor said I should've "outgrown asthma," well as an adult, sorry doc still have the issue!

Also, it'll be a year since I started back to getting in shape. I should be under at least 190lbs and dropping but why am I still sitting on the low 200s? Hmm, the foods I get in the stores don't really have much nutrition hence is why I used to go to the organic stores that was when I was really losing weight that was 5 yrs ago. I just feel I am not getting enough nutrition; I don't count calories I know my pants have been saggin' I know I must be doing something weight.

It's like in the mirror I look kinda slim, but not really I still have that bulging tummy and saggy triceps which I use now 6lb dumbbells I could use 8lbs but right now that's a teeny bit heavy for me. I think I am getting ready to start upping the weights for biceps and triceps on a cable pulley machine I use which I can do 40lbs need to test if I can do 50lbs. My biceps have some definition...I'm sorry I am kinda feeling discourage. I hate looking at myself in the mirror nude can't stand what I see not sexy nor healthy. I don't do weights daily I did overwork my right side of my back this past summer so I gotta be careful what back exercises I do.

With my new exercises, I do 30 seconds and some 30 seconds on each leg and try to do them daily no weights. Yes, I do quite a bit in the gym far longer than I need to be. I am usually in there for 1.5 to 2 hrs and it's been 3 hrs, damn near exhausted, which makes me sleep even longer than normal. I have even gotten a little bit light headed for some odd reason even though I hydrate myself to death. I do try to mix up the exercises depending if I got time to squeeze in on a particular day.

I thoroughly enjoy my training, like I said feeling kinda discourage about my weight. Wondering if my metabolism isn't speeding up to really fuel and burn the fat? I have no intentions of giving up at all.

Just kinda venting, if anyone has any suggestions feel free to comment.