Exercise ideas? Deadlines? Help??

Okay, so I've been wanting a "flat stomach" for years now, but you know, life happens, and so does being lazy...! Anyways, this is it, I have to do it now or I'll never get around to it.

Firstly, should I be setting myself a deadline? Like, I want to lose X amount of weight by such & such time? (I'm thinking 15-20lb by Thanksgiving..)

Second, exercise... I'm incredibly lazy, and I don't like working out. That's my biggest problem. I bought myself an exercise bike so that I can ride & watch TV. I've been doing that often, really feeling the ache in my legs too. I started riding it in intervals, 2 mins slow 30 sec fast, and repeating that a couple of times. I like it cause I can still do that while watching TV, works for me. I only started doing this the other day, so every 2nd day I do the riding interval training, and on the other days I started doing a circuit thing, which is 20 body weight squats, 10 push ups, 20 lunges, 10 dumbell rows, 15 sec plank & 30 jumping jacks then repeat another one or two times. I did this on the first day, interval rode the 2nd day, third day did the circuit again but was in so much pain I could only do one round of it & could barely do a push up.

As soon as I feel that pain, I give up on working out.... I'm terrible at overcoming that part.


As for my diet, I'm a vegetarian & gluten free, I eat pretty well. I have gluten free honey nut chex (so yummy!) & soy milk for breakfast, then my meals I make/eat are usually a fried egg in lettuce with ketchup & cheese, a bowl of vegetables (corn, peas, carrots & beans) with a bit of cheese on top, rice & broccoli with cheese, and a salad. I'm a simple eater so I just rotate through those meals through the week. Oh, also banana smoothies with spinach & a spoon of coconut oil, in soy milk.

So I think I eat pretty well. I lost 28lb since I went gluten free at the beginning of the year - but it's been totally unnoticeable. I don't know where that weight disappeared from. My stomach is still there, looking exactly the same.

Right now I weigh around 142-144lb, it fluctuates all over the place daily. I'd like to loose around 15-20lb, although really I don't care what the scale says, I just want it based on looks/how I feel rather than what a number tells me. But I'm definitely no where near.


If I continue the workout I've just started, will it do me any good? Will it be fast enough or very slow? I get very discouraged by not seeing results in the first week...

Help