Gym

After trimming off 10 pounds in one month (and still trimming) increasing my lifting in more than a few exercises, and looking pretty damn good, here are some basic truths about working out I have discovered.

It isn't quick- Look if you are serious about the gym you have to realize a few things and the first of those things is it isn't quick. Once I buckled down, and got serious I didn't start seeing some improvements until after the first month. Even then they were minute. That said, record your progress/what you are lifting, and take pictures because that is when you will see the improvement. When you look at yourself in between months.

Eating- If you are going to start getting fit you need to eat right. If you are not going to eat right don't even bother. This means your diet needs to switch to tons of protein and no fast food. If you have to do fast food do Subway, Chipotle, or something on the healthy side.
Also measure your calorie intake. When I decided to slim down my calorie intake went to 1600-1800 a day. Best way to do this is to watch what you drink. Soda is HORRIBLE. It fills you with 120 empty calories a can. You need something sweet? There are energy drinks that taste amazing and have 1g of sugar and 10 calories.

Work- Chemically after you go to the gym enough times your brain develops an addiction to the chemicals your body releases during working out. Now starting the process of working out sucks because the first few times you are going to hurt. I'm talking can't walk straight ache. However that goes away.
Realize if you want to get fit you need to go to the gym 3 times a week. My schedule looks like this

day 1
back/biceps

day 2
chest/triceps

day 3
legs/shoulders

On each of those days I have a set 3-4 exercises for each muscle group. You can't just go to the gym once or twice a week, do two exercises, and get fit. Honestly it isn't hard. I am at the gym for about 40 min on those days.

Running- It is OVERRATED! It pains me when I see women convinced that if they run they will slim up and turn all hotty. Look running burns calories, but working out burns calories and your body uses the fat. It takes that fat and turns it into muscle. Running doesn't turn it into anything. I have lost so much more weight from my calorie intake and dedicated work outs then I did running.