Dont just do exercise in a gym, but try to take up some sports or make it part of your daily life (ie. going tramping on the weekend or playing a game of soccer with the family on the weekend).

The best way to choose things are by looking at what you did as a teenager, find what you loved or were good at and give that a go.

As for going to the gym, i cannot stress how much difference it makes. Lift weights – there will be a gym instructor who will show you what to do and when.
Ladies – you will NOT look like the terminator(see this article why not), females just dont get that big without a LOT of work. And to be honest, even if you did look like that, its a lot easier to get rid of muscle than fat

1kg of muscle burns 100 calories per day compared to 1kg of fat which burns 4. So by creating muscle you will loose even more weight faster, not to mention feel better for it.

When creating muscle you need to eat about 1-2g protein at least per kg of lean mass you have. So try to keep it about 100g.
Good sources of protien are Milk, Eggs, Meats etc.

Again, fitday can keep track of all this for you easily. If you have any trouble then try a Horleys Carbless Protein bar after a workout. It looks and tastes like chocolate

20 mins of the following burns …

Bicycling – Actual 300-400 calories
Squash – 300-400 calories
Running – 5-6 mph 300-350 calories
Swimming laps – 350 calories
Bicycling – Stationary 250-300 calories
Stair climber – 200-250 calories
Aerobics – 200-250 calories
Walking briskly – 150-180 calories <- this means breaking a sweat, not a sunday walk guys

The problem is that either your body gets used to the diet and exercise you’re doing or you are eating too few calories.

Try changing your exercise so instead of running you are swimming, or cycling or whatever, and for a couple of weeks raise your calories a few hundred so they are still below what you use, but not as far.

If this isnt working then perhaps you need to check what you are eating more carefully. Is it good food? or a lot of take aways?
Do you have all the vitamins you need? or are you missing out on some?

I found usually i get bored with whatever exercise im doing within a couple months and naturally just change it to something else. In the 7 months ive been dieting i havnt really hit any major plateaus yet. My diet changes all the time and the exercise.
However being a female i HAVE noticed that i do not loose weight the week prior to menstration, and i will drop twice as much the week after (probably just all water retention).

Again and again I have heard people saying they were eating really low calories and exercising heaps and still not loosing weight, and couldn’t break the plateau. What it comes down to is kidding and lieing to yourself, or not measuring exactly.

Recheck with scales and measuring items the food, and stop counting your exercise calories so high, i have found most HR monitors seriously over estimate the calories used and inaccurate.