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Originally Posted by adrian jaye
I'm concerned about loosing weight, which is how I monitor progress and "building" as taking protein and making muscle which is heavier, does that make sense ???
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One thing that I have found is that losing weight and building muscle mass at the same time is difficult. You're sort of asking your body to do two mutually-exclusive things. One benefit of the weight training, though, is that muscle burns more calories than other tissue, so effectively your at-rest metabolism will increase when you increase muscle.
One thing for sure is that even when you consider all of the advice on this thread, you need to filter it and utilize it to fit your level of commitment and lifestyle. For sure, exercise and working out is hard work and there's nothing worse than setting goals waaay too high only to realize how difficult they are to actually attain and then get discouraged and quit. I've seen it happen alot.
Keep all of this advice in mind, but take it easy at first and most importantly stick with it. I like to compare it to putting a dollar (or one quid in your case) in a can every time you exercise. Each particular workout (or quid) - on its own - isn't going to add up to much and isn't going to make a huge difference, but at the end of 6 months, say, you look in the can and there's quite a bit of money in there.