quick effective workout dvd?

Diet:

First you should eat every three hours. Constantly eating boost your metabolism. If you skip meals your body goes into "starvation" mode since it doesn't know when it will be fed next whenever you do eat it stores extra fat. Also try not to eat late at night try to eat dinner by 7pm definitely no later than 9pm. This is what I hear from many people and my kickboxing coach and also my kickboxing book. "We've asked you to eat five times a day- don't fret. You won't gain fat, especially if you know a thing or two about basic nutrition. Remember that eating every three to four hours revs your metabolism, which is one way your body burns calories." - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Kickboxing by Karon Karter and Guy Mezger.

Heres what the schedule should look like

7am Breakfast

10am Snack

1pm Lunch

4pm Snack

7pm Dinner with a snack

Now as for what you should eat for these snacks and meals I'll leave up to you here are some good ideas you can mix and match these meal items to create your own diet.

Breakfast:

1)Cereal with Low fat milk. Something like Special K, Cheerios, or Frosted Wheats.

2)Oatmeal

3)A few slices of turkey bacon, couple pancakes or few pieces of toast, a piece of fruit

-A glass of 100% Juice. Usually the cheapest pure juice is apple or orange.

Lunch:

1)A sandwich take your pick ham, turkey, chick, beef, pb and j, just try to avoid too much mustard, mayo, or any other sauce. Slap on some low fat cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, or whatever veggie you like and enjoy. Oh yeah try wheat bread its a lot better for you.

2)Also the same as making a sandwich buy a sub from Subway.

You can eat the sandwich with a "Grab" size bag of baked chips.

Dinner:

1)Grilled or baked chicken breast or fish fillets seasoned it how you please. Remove the skin do not bread the chicken or fish, fry it, or add too much salt to it. Sides: Your choice of veggies: I personally love either corn or steamed broccoli.

One baked potato avoid sour cream, adding a lot of butter, bacon bits. Try to keep it as close to a plain potato as possible. Or one potato chopped up and roasted with herbs is good too.

2)Homemade Hard or Soft Tacos: Use ground turkey instead of ground beef(if you do decide to use beef use lean beef), Romaine or Green Leaf Lettuce(healthier than Iceberg), Tomatoes, 2% Milk Shredded Cheddar Cheese, Topped with salsa is you like, wrap in preferably corn tortilla (corn is slightly better than flour, but flour is ok) or place in taco shells.

3)Grilled Hamburgers:Like before use ground turkey if not at least lean beef. Grill over charcoal it adds great flavor to the meat along with dripping off extra fat/grease if you dont not have a charcoal grill or time to grill look into getting an inside grill such as a George Foreman Grill though you do not have the same add taste from the charcoals you will still benefit from extra fats dripping off the meat. Use whole wheat buns. 2% milk cheese, and the extra veggie toppings you may like. Add additional condiments sparingly if at all. What good are hamburgers without french fries, huh? To avoid cook fries in a healthier way try frying them in olive oil(olive oil is pretty expensive though compared to corn/vegetable oil) or bake the fries in the oven. Place in a pan and use only a little vegetable oil to prevent fries from sticking and set oven to broil turning over when the fries are golden brown. The fries will be healthier than deep frying them and still have that crunchy crispy fried taste.

4)Big salad with grilled chicken. Watch the salad dressing that usually screws people up.

5)I'm not a big fan of red meat but you can eat it every so often, try to get lean beef or pork and go for grilling or baking it similar to the chicken and fish. Serve with your sides of veggies you like.

Snacks:

1)1-2 servings of fruit or veggies. Celery, Apples, Bananas, Raisins, just to name a few.

2)Handful of nuts lightly salted.(My favorite: cashews)

3)Grab size bag of baked chips

4)2 oatmeal cookies(iced or raisin are fine too)

5)1 bag of 100 calorie snacks. They come in snacks flavors like Oreos.

6)My favorite: a fruit smoothie. I usually go to Sonic they have great strawberry banana smoothies but of course you can make your own smoothies at home if you wish.

7)Yogurt

8)Small salad

9)Airpopped popcorn is actually pretty good for you. Its not until you add the butter and salt that its becomes unhealthy.

10)Granola bar

Drinks

-You need to drink at least 8 glasses of water throughout the day.

-Try to drink one cup of white or green tea for me. I personally like Snapple's White Tea infused with Strawberry you can buy the packages and brew at home within minutes

-I know if you have the urge how hard it is to cut out all bad foods from your diet so for dinner you can have one diet soda or glass of crystal light

-Try to drink only 100% juice many "juices" out there are only about 20% real juice. Even then drink sparingly because many juices have a lot of sugar regardless.(You may want to try reduce sugar juices)

Exercising:

Is there anything specific you like to do? If so you can get a workout video based on that which will make exercising more enjoyable and you'll be more likely to stay with it. Doesn't matter how many calories a workout video burns if you don't use it.

I gave my mom The Biggest Loser Workout: Cardio Max she likes it and lost some weight.

If you are into martial arts there are tons of things like cardio kickboxing. Taebo is a popular one.

If you like dancing then Hip Hop Abs and Turbo Jam are popular buys

And if you want to get your husband/boyfriend in the mood for some more baby makin' ;).

Perfect Hips Belly Dance Workout and Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease are great.

All of these videos(and more) are available here:

http://astore.amazon.com/dietcentral-20

the original tae bo is still my savior!! It's about 30 minutes and works your whole body! Remember to drink lots of water (they say half of your body weight in ounces per day). The water will help flush your system and flush the fat you are burning. It also is sooo good for your skin, organs, riding the body of toxins and about a million other things. Good luck!!! BTW I have found high end work out DVDs like Windsor Pilates, at Big Lots for 2.99- I couldn't believe it. Check it out.

i used a good bellydancing dvd.. can't remember the name, but its the twins (has a few dvds out).. really good, in two weeks my husband saw a difference.

don't diet, just eat right and exercise.. the dvd takes about 30 minutes a day

TURBO JAM

I have been doing it for 2 weeks and i have lost 12 inches

p90x, i've just seen the infomercial, but the workouts are varied and change alot. I'd do it, but I'm lazy, lol