Originally Posted by TheSquealer

At the end of the day, if you proclaim yourself to be lazy and can't motivate yourself to get on a treadmill, to run, to jog or make major changes in your diet, it absolutely makes no difference what retarded fad video tape you buy.

I own a gym. I deal with diet, exercise and weight loss daily. It's what we do. A "workout" is only worth the energy you put into it and the energy you expend during it. Results will always vary greatly because everyone is working at different levels of intensity. If you openly admit being lazy, you are also announcing you will be working at low intensity, burning very few calories and aren't too likely to change your diet or create good habits.

I watch people all day long give 1/2 an effort and believe they are giving a 110% and have no real results because they are lazy. I watch people all day long give 100% and demand we push them harder because they always feel they can be giving more and they lose 3-4-5 pounds a week. I also have people who are lazy, don't eat well and tell me daily how they are "doing everything right" and are constantly frustrated and switching from one magic pill to the other because they lack the strength of character, required to make an honest assessment of ones self and start making changes.

Exercise is like everything else in life. You only get out of it, what you put into it. So its not fair to anyone to pretend that one video, one workout program etc is a final answer or a better answer. It's not.

The solution is to make the committment to give 100% each and every time you workout.
The solution is to commit 100% to understanding diet, your own daily caloric requirements and being 100% on top of that, day in and day out

Set a target daily calorie goal and make sure you're diet is in check. You don't need to exercise to lose weight. BUT you do need to get your diet under control (or at least modify it) to lose weight. In other words, it takes very little of eating poorly to undo a whole lot of hard exercise. I am also surrounded by people daily who work out like animals but eat horribly and can't understand what the problem is but don't want to start tracking what they eat or give up their favorite foods.

There is no magic pill. (well, there are many...none that are legal and some can quickly kill you, like DNP)

There is no magic dvd or workout program

There is only "calories in vs calories out"

People who deny this, struggle

People who understand this and get their diet under control FIRST, do great