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Hey everybody! I have been lurking around for two and a half weeks now, reading up on paleo and life style changes and now it's about high time I introduce myself (very briefly) and post my current workout regiment My name is Melanie, I'm 26 (27 in a week) and originally from Germany, but moved to London 2 1/2 years ago where I work as a video game localization tester (yup, I get to test/play games for a living ^^). I have been hitting the gym at the beginning of last year for three months and was able to do some real nice improvements until life got in the way, I had to move and me and a friend of mine with whom I had been working out stopped going. Anyway, I was doing some exercise at home until I caught a cold twice within a couple of months and eventually I stopped altogether (I was not happy with my progress at home compared to the one at the gym which was really demotivating). Nonetheless, I REALLY wanted to start working out again (I always went to work with a big smile on my face after the gym, because it made me feel incredibly good - and sore ;P), but I simply couldn't get my friend to come back to the gym with me (he is the one who pretty much 'designed' our workout routine and sometimes we would get stupid comments from the staff at the gym which really bugged me as well) and it was no fun going alone either. SOOOO... (after an even longer introduction than initially intended), I stumbled upon this site, read about some awesome transformations and the paleo way of life and was thinking 'Yeah, sounds reasonable'. So I went full paleo (with a few amendments since I'm vegetarian - however, I do eat fish) two weeks ago (I have never had that much energy and I don't even get tired at work anymore!) and started to work out again last Friday in a 'one day exercise, one day rest' routine. So, here comes my living room exercise regiment: 1. Jumping Jacks (Target: 200 / Currently: 250) Short stretching (although I'm planning on extending this period with some further strength exercises we used to do at the gym - body weight only) 2. Body Weight Squats (all the way down to the bottom with a straight back) (Target: 30 / Currently: 50) 3. Push ups (nose touching the floor) (Target: 10 / Current: varies inbetween 3 - 7) 4. Body Weight Squats with one step forward when coming up (each side Target: 20 / Current: 20) 5. Dumbbell Lifting (the exercise Steve shows in the Beginner Body weight Routine - using my friend's 18kg dumbbell) (each side Target: 5 / Current: 5) 6. Planking (Target: 60 sec. / Current: 60 sec.) 7. Stomach training (I attach one weight of 2kg? - not sure, would have to check - to each leg, lie down on my back, arms under the couch, legs straight, and then move my legs up together over my head - towards the couch - as well as down to the right, then up and down to the left and back up which counts as 1 (Target: 10 / Current:10) That's it - my progress so far after training four times. Usually by the time I get around to my Squats with step forward I'm sweating like crazy. My soreness level is pretty low so I think the one day exercise one day off pattern does the trick (even though I regularly end up walking down the steps with legs feeling like pudding, haha ). I can see that I'm toning up and my muscles are getting stronger, but I fear I need to drastically cut down on my fruit intake (still need to figure out what I can take to work with me instead...). Thanks for reading ^^ Any comments, tips, questions etc. are welcome Mel