Great effort.
Remember, do some resistance work. Build a little muscle to improve your metabolism to burn the fat. You may not see the weight drop off, but you will see an improvement in your fat burn if that what you're going for.

Stay hydrated. People often neglect how much hydration plays in how your body looks. The better hydrated, the less your body has to hold in fat to manage. You'll pee like a octogenarian at first, but your body will adapt.

Make sure you are having fun. If it ain't fun, you'll be more inclined to give it up. Mix it up, try spin classes, etc. There is no one formula, everyone works differently when it comes to fitness. But try a little of everything and you'll find the ones that work for you.

PS - Yoga is the one!

PPS

70% diet, 30% exercise.

Bouquet?

Mate, I currently smoke 40 rollups a day I can't even smell the dog's farts let alone the bouquet in wine

I find weights shed the fat for me. I started going to the gym again (only once a week) just before Christmas after 3 years of not going and only sporadically doing some free weights and I have lost a lot of my accumulated fat, particularly round my waist and neck/face. I wasn't particularly overweight but I feel a lot better for it. I find the machine weights are most effective as they are designed to do the whole of your body with lower risk of injury. You can work your way up easier as well.

Everyone's different and what works for some doesn't work for others. I hate running on treadmills so I don't do it. I like cycling and go for plenty of walks instead.

Kudos for starting though. The hardest part is finding time to start and making sure you don't find something else to do instead of carrying on.

Cod'ead - well done on your diet, although don't cut too much of the things you like out because you're more likely to fail. A few of the lads at work stopped smoking for new year, some just went cold turkey and the rest have got e-cigs. All of them have kept it up and feel a lot better for it - including their pockets!

I think I might jump on this fitness bandwagon.
Did a ten hour sesh Friday and a fourteen hour session Saturday with another rake down yesterday afternoon and sick of waking up Monday morning feeling like dog.

I actually did 57 days dry last Spring and felt a million times better for it but then proceeded to slip into old habits.
It was the longest stint without in 35 years of heavy boozing so I am toying with the idea of setting a date and going for a new personal best.

Thing is I ate most of the things that I thought I liked because it was "the norm". I love fish so that bit comes really easy. I never ate a great deal of meat anyway and since changing my eating habits (I'm loathe to call it a 'diet'), I really can't say that I've missed anything. I've had one 'proper' burger, a ribeye steak and about 4 pieces of chicken breast since January and they've been "treats" and have been sufficient. A matew told me that I would put on weight when I gave up smoking but that only usually happens when people substitute chocolate and sweets for nicotine. The fact that I snack on carrots, celery and cucumber should mitigate those effects.

I went to the pub yesterday to chase up some money that the landlord owes me and a mate offered to buy me a drink. I asked for a Beck's Blue and as I got near the end of the bottle started feeling palpitations in my chest. It was only then I turned the bottle around and noticed the dopey bint behind the bar had given me normal Beck's. I was literally staggering as I left the pub and went to bed once I got home. When I was boozing I sometimes suffered from post-alcohol anxiety and I've been feeling like that since I had the bottle of Beck's. I appear to have become super-sensitive to alcohol now and there is simply no way I want to go back to the bottle again.

If you like shadow boxing try and get hold of a punch bag or better still, try going to boxing circuit training. I've never sweated as much as when I do that.

There are loads of kettle bell training drills on youtube too. You'll soon be swinging a 20kg one round.

Another piece of advice (again from personal experience) look into HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) as your cardio, probably on a bike.

It will kill you at first, but will yeild great results.

What, even if you are dead?

You'll be the fittest corpse in your local mortuary.