Buddies Required!!! Lose a kg for a month- Feb 2014

JAM,
Take baby steps. All that added activity must be making you ravenous. Don't try and control the urge to snack. Rather eat healthy snacks in small quantities and don't keep junk at home. I know it's hard with kids but I think it's better that even kids learn to eat healthy. I've banned all my weaknesses from home. That means chocolate anything does not get bought here. I don't crave for cookies, mixture varieties etc. I keep that at home for the folks at home. If you can't keep any junk around without eating it then definitely cut out the junk from home. Substitute with fresh fruits/home made granola etc. I keep snacking on nuts, small raisin packs, small dried berries packs etc. I've noticed that having things in small individual packs helps. I don't gorge on the entire box. If you absolutely have to eat the snack, pack small one time use quantities in small ziploc snack bags and keep it. For mixture, boondi etc try packing one/two measured table spoons in packs. For cookies,one cookie per pack. Eat only one of those packs per day. For chocolates, the individual M&M single serving packs are great(one pack is only 73 cals).
Try to creatively snack. Over time, once you increase your protien intake and get used to the exercise routines your craving will go down. Now, I hardly crave for chocolate. I'm having a couple of bars in the fridge and much to DHs surprise it is still sitting there(my kids don't like chocolate). If it was earlier, I ate a bar or two every couple of days.

 

JAM,
You have to practice some portion control if you need to see results. I did try exercise alone and I didn't see a single oz reduction until I started looking at my plate. That does not mean you can't eat the cinnamon bread but an entire loaf of it is not healthy. Eat a small piece, thank your colleague and walk away from there. Don't stay in the vicinity of the bread.
After a hard workout your body needs fuel. Proper fuels are proteins with some carbs and a little bit of fat. The Texas cheese fries don't sound like they fit the bill. That'll only make you crave more later since you didn't get the right food in the first place. That does not mean don't eat it. Take a small serving in a plate, put it away and make your quinoa salad with cheese and olive oil. Your body deserves to be treated with that for the hard workout. After making the salad, eat the salad first and the the cheese fries. Contemplating can make you stop sometimes. Putting off that piece of chocolate until the little guy is in bed makes me question wanting to eat it at all.
The adage that says 80% of weight loss happens with diet control is absolutely true. I've experienced it first hand.
Also great abs are made in the kitchen. You have to find a way to control the portion sizes of all the added calories you consume,otherwise when you don't see results you may give up. I've done that too.