Is there such thing as TOO much variety?

You lost 26 pounds. I would say that is success. Keep doing what you are doing you are fine.

I would say think about several factors when trying to not feel overwhelmed. Decide exactly what type of fitness you are trying to achieve. It's obvious you are being successful with what you are doing. I mean heck, you have already lost 26 lbs and that's fantastic! I have been doing P90X for a while now and love it. A. Variety, B. Time, C. Intensity......Not necessarily in the order of importance. It sounds like you have everything a fitness person would love. Figure out what you want, and then plan out 3 months worth of workouts and put everything away except the equipment you will need for that day. When you are done, get the next days stuff ready and you are set for tomorrow.

I have a thing with buying books where I feel so much better if I can just buy all of them. I may never read them, I may only read a couple chapters, but sometimes I feel like, if I can just throw money at something, I'll have accomplished it. I bought all these cookbooks, now I don't have to learn how to cook. Maybe you have something similar?

I always suggest people do free weights, because they're such a great way to work all those wacky little stabilizer muscles that the machines overlook and also because building muscle make it easier to burn fat, so maybe three days of those with one of any of your other choices on the other days? That way you'd have a concrete schedule of a fixed full-body weight routine along with opportunity to be impulsive and ask yourself what you'd like to do every other day.

Keep it up, because you're kicking butt!

Ha, this is a great post…I had that same question myself and this is what I found works for me!
Have you ever heard the story about the lion that was afraid of the three legged stool? Well, a lion is an animal that requires focus to accomplish his goals, so if you pick a chair up with three legs and point it at the lion, the three legs are too much for the lion to focus on and he doesn’t attack (don’t actually try this, it’s just a story/theory). However, the same is true for us. When we have too many things to choose from we get constipation of the brain and sometimes just don’t do anything…we want to, but we don’t know which way to go!
Here is what I found works: Plan ahead...and be prepared!
I’m the same way as you, I enjoy going to the gym, doing classes, cardio, weights, any Beachbody program at home, etc. So what I do is plan ahead for the entire week. For any exercise (cardio/strength training) I give myself a choice. For example, on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday I have a list of the 4 cardio workouts I want to do and I choose one each day from the four and keep picking out of my planned choices until there is only one left...the remaining one is what I do on Sunday. The beauty of doing this is that I get to choose the other days, because let’s be honest, sometimes we just don’t want to do some workouts on certain days if we don’t feel like it. This approach makes sure we don’t sabotage our goals.
All in all, the most important thing is to just do something, so keep up the great work; you’ve done amazing so far! Remember that this is a marathon, not a sprint!

I think variety can be overwhelming but what I like to do as a lot of people have said is plan ahead. Right now I've made the commitment to do p90x then in april I might run for a month on my treadmill and mix in some of my random stuff like ball workout or wii etc.

I think for me though I like variety in calories burned. I don't know if you stop once you reach your 500 calories but I get great weight loss results by varying my cal burned. Somedays I burn 300 sometimes well over 1000 and everything in between and I like to eat some of them back so it really keeps things new.

Good job on your loss so far though.

cor i wish i had more choise,a gym would be SOOOOO good right now!
use it to it's max girl thats all i can say!