the day i told the personal trainer that i was not getting very puffed anymore..... and the consequences....

May I suggest to you,( if you are a regular gym goer and find that you are exercising well within your comfort zone ) that you fake getting puffed. The consequences of fessing up to your personal trainer that you could do with more of a challenge are dire. For me, this meant a 100% increase in the length of time I spend at the gym, a series of exercises on equipment that looks as if it might be remnants of a medeival torture chamber, and getting up close and personal with a large rubber sphere... The "manual" setting of the cross trainer is now set to "random" - in otherwords, I now have simulated hills in my routine.

However, the good news is that if I manage to survive another 3 months of this, I will have a toned tummy, small bulges in certain muscle groups and have curves in all the right places.