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Weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise. Try cutting back or eliminating completely a few days a week foods like fried meat, red meat, cheese and other dairy like ice cream, yoghourt, milk, etc.
Cutting down on oil/fat can make a difference in your cholesterol levels also.
To get to where you want to be and stay there will take a lifestyle change and you don't have to do it all at once. Give yourself a year and cut back/substitute slowly or your body will revolt.
To answer ?s I am a female. Yep, I did too much too soon and I gave up. Back to square one I guess.
To answer ?s I am a female. Yep, I did too much too soon and I gave up. Back to square one I guess.
Start again by not drinking any calories on Tues, Thursday and Saturday. Add a day when you feel like it and move to drinking no calories. On the same days, no dairy (ice cream, yoghourt, cream, etc)
That should be pretty easy and you would be surprised how many calories people drink.
To get to where you want to be and stay there will take a lifestyle change and you don't have to do it all at once. Give yourself a year and cut back/substitute slowly or your body will revolt.
You make a very good point here. I don't know why but it seems like the body "wants" to hold onto what it has and will fight you if you make too many changes at once. I think that's why people are so likely to gain lost weight back as soon as they stop thinking about it. What do they call that? Homeostasis? The body doesn't give it up easily.
I hear you, I always carried my extra weight in my stomach practically my whole life, in my mid 40's female, I found cutting out bad carbs (breads, pasta, potatoes ) very helpful. also since I added a lot of sauerkraut and pineapple in my diet it has melted the fat from my belly, try for awhile it really helped for me, good luck
Try switching off between the eliptical and recumbant bike and that precor machine (if you have them available) do them all. For example, i do ~90 minutes of cardio 5-6 days a week. I do the eliptical, treadmill (walking with high incline), stairmaster, recumbant bike and the precor. I do 20 minutes on each and switch up the order every day. I also try to keep my calories under 1500, eat alot of veggies and fruit, stay away from bread and cheese especially. I've been losing steadily, about 1lb a week.
Other tips: no eating for two hours before a workout.
Try switching off between the eliptical and recumbant bike and that precor machine (if you have them available) do them all. For example, i do ~90 minutes of cardio 5-6 days a week. I do the eliptical, treadmill (walking with high incline), stairmaster, recumbant bike and the precor. I do 20 minutes on each and switch up the order every day. I also try to keep my calories under 1500, eat alot of veggies and fruit, stay away from bread and cheese especially. I've been losing steadily, about 1lb a week.
Other tips: no eating for two hours before a workout.
If you traded in some of that cardio for some resistance/weight training you would probably start losing more. Minute for minute, resistance training burns more calories and grows your muscles that in turn raise your metabolism. Plus it shapes your body.
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