Two sessions a week at the gym - when can I expect to see results?

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That's great

Remember to keep challenging yourself in the gym, up the weights and the tempo of your intervals (if you are doing them for cardio) and you will continue to see changes.

can i just say you can never convert fat to muscle - it is impoosible.

What is a really good idea is to eat a sensible healthy food at meal three to four times a day and also do resistant training to build muscles that you arleady have, make them bigger - this is harder for woman and harder as we get older (30's 40's and 50's)

if we "diet" we lose muscel first and then fat - it is shit but this is what happens

so eat you recomended food intake for a female of your age - and this will vary as to how much you do.. and be generaly less in your 30's than in your 20's as the metabolism slows and less agin in 40's - unless you are doing a good amount of cardio and resistance, as these two things can change your metabolism and also resistence increases your muscel and that in itself is thought to increase metabolism.

so resistance - a weights class or weights yourslef at the gym or kettle bells - and also half cardio will decrease your size if you eat the correct amount and try to drink and eat after your activity so that you don't over eat.

then you will lose fat - and not muscle, and hopefully build the muscle

but you can't change fat into muscle you need carbs for muscle and protien

fatsatsuma How have the gym sessions been going, have you started to see the results?

I agree that it is totally possible without changing eating habits but not always the best way to do it (injuries can spell serious disaster - I learnt this the hard way!)

I have lost almost 4 stone now without dieting (but with small changes such as no weekday wine, no takeaways, healthy breakfast every day etc) but the exercise bit has to be really hard to make a difference. I managed to stay a hefty size 22 doing 3 spinning classes a week but introduced running and the weight is literally falling off. Doing a coreball class twice a week has made the biggest changes to my body shape I think though.

go to a BMF class three times a week AND eat healthily between now and your summer holiday.

can pretty guarantee you will be toned by your holiday.

(i'm not paid to advertise BMF but I'm very evangelical about them!)

If you are working hard, then you will see results in 6 weeks for holiday. . .but remember KEEP GOING FOR LIFE !!

fatsatsuma, yes that is what I meant - I probably am slimmer, but not enormously so (clothes fit better, rather than, get to go out and spend money on new ones).

I do think I look more toned, at least on my arms etc, there is still a long way to go before any abs become visible however much improved they are!

good luck!

I dieted and exercised over the last five months and came down two dress sizes.

You don't have to diet, but it wouldn't be a bad thing. Even if you don't diet, you shouldn't reward yourself with treats after the gym, for example.

fatsuma, I've been going to the gym, with a personal trainer, three times (most) weeks for about a year now. I'm a lot fitter (from a standing start!) but despite eating what I think is quite sensibly, have not really lost weight; actually I don't think I've lost weight at all though my clothes fit a bit better.

Have gone through patches of going to the gym, doing classes, etc in the past, and thought I was working hard. I have now discovered I wasn't

Trainer's view is if I want to lose weight I need to take the food thing more seriously - but I work full time and have kids of 2 and 3 - getting to the gym (in the evening) feels like a big achievement already (mutter mutter self-justification; now what is my excuse for having been back from hols for a week and not gone back to gym yet?)

Good luck - but unless you're a lot overweight you might need to look at the food thing more than you want to.

"But they are right, you can't just exercise and eat whatever you want, you will just be fit and overweight (which is entirely possible) "

totally disagree

running
i lost tonswhilst eating likea pig

you dontv need to diet to lose weight imo and ime

Just to confuse thing further - people seem to be achieving great things on the 30 Day Shred thread.

20 mins intensive exercise a day with a trainer from 'The Biggest Loser.'

I started it today and was a bit pathetic, but I have high hopes for it and lots of posters swear by it, as I said.

yes
me to
was biffer who was fit.
ate less, excersied less9 as was busy in rl) dropped a stone

fatsuma, sorry if you feel you've been invaded! I am a bit evangelical about keeping myself slimmer now and as an avid exercisier before I can only report what has worked for me which was really looking at WHAt and HOW MUCH I ate

exercise the cherry on the (low GI) cake

Yes, I know, sorry, I was making assumptions myself and did not mean to suggest you were all suggesting she starve herself

Lost, ISWYM, but without knowing what OP is eating now we can't really give advice in a specific way. sorry for confusion, am feeling mega rough and extra grumpy today

thinkg is oen persons healthy diet is starvation to a lot

Sorry, that didn't make sense at all, must proof read before posting.

No. Not low calorie restrictive diets
I was talking about good nutrition..

I didn't say you did. OP said that she was eating in a healthy sensible way whilst going to the gym and after other response she said that it looked like she would have to be a full blown diet, which I took to mean as drastically cutting back which wouldn't be necessary if she was eating sensibly.

Nobody said 'low calorie restrictive diet'