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Question: I have been trying it all! I would like to be able to lose 35 pounds to go from my current weight of 160 to a much more preferred 125 pounds. Up until the last two years I weighed about 115-120 then I got went college, got married and put on all those pounds everyone said are inevitable!
Well today i purchased hoodia and I'm hoping that will help... How ever I will tell you that my diet consists of all healthy things like veggies etc... but I do treat myself to the occasional Starbucks....
My schedule alows fo 1/2 an hour during the day at work and 2 hours after work...
What Kind of exercise should I do?
Are there any calorie burning enhancers I should take?
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Height: 5' 5.5"
Weight: About 160 < or >
Age: 22
Gender: Female
13 seconds ago
I am willing to work out and eat or not eat anything that works!!!
Answers: I have been trying it all! I would like to be able to lose 35 pounds to go from my current weight of 160 to a much more preferred 125 pounds. Up until the last two years I weighed about 115-120 then I got went college, got married and put on all those pounds everyone said are inevitable!
Well today i purchased hoodia and I'm hoping that will help... How ever I will tell you that my diet consists of all healthy things like veggies etc... but I do treat myself to the occasional Starbucks....
My schedule alows fo 1/2 an hour during the day at work and 2 hours after work...
What Kind of exercise should I do?
Are there any calorie burning enhancers I should take?
5 minutes ago - 3 days left to answer.
Additional Details
4 minutes ago
Height: 5' 5.5"
Weight: About 160 < or >
Age: 22
Gender: Female
13 seconds ago
I am willing to work out and eat or not eat anything that works!!!
You sound like someone who is willing and committed to do what it takes, you only lack the tools to do it!
This is a topic that is full of misinformation. I'm here to set you straight. Don't worry, it's a lot simpler than you may think - though it does take some commitment and work.
First you must decide what your goals are. A lot of people want say they 'want to lose weight' but if pressed, you find that most be people want to look & feel better, and to become healthier. Meaning it is not necessarily a number on the scale. Weight is just one measurement of your body. And it's not always the best one for your purposes.
Becoming fitter and healthier is accomplished through both diet and excercise. I cannot over-emphasize how much BOTH of these are important. Diet AND excercise.
Diet needs to be a lifestyle change, not a quick program diet, or even a months long diet. Your body needs certain nutrients and macronutrients to take care of itself, and apportioning the right amounts into a daily lifestyle, combined with proper excercise, is going to set you up nicely.
This means you'll need good proteins, good carbohydrates, and good fats in the right proportions to fuel your body for what it needs.
You have to move your mindset away from a calorie burning orientation. Your goal will be to lose body fat percentage, not necessarily weight. A person of the same height can be a chubby or lean 145lbs for example. It just depends on how much of that weight is fat, and how much is lean.
The general idea is that muscle tissue burns more calories at rest than fat. Fat tissue at rest burns next to nothing. Muscle tissue burns calories just by being there; it takes more calories to 'maintain' muscle.
So we need to build muscle in order to burn fat. Muscle will require protein to build and maintain. So avoiding all protein is not a good idea. Muscle building also requires working those muscles; that is moving some weights around. You don't have to lift like a muscle-head, but you do need to excercise all your major muscle groups, whether that is with weights or machines.
Cardio is good in that it helps your circulatory system become more efficient - which benefits every part of your body. It DOES burn calories, but it is not the king of calorie burning. Having enough muscle under your skin is what does that, because muscles burn calories EVEN at rest.
But you are on the right idea: HOW you eat is key. Too much calories, and your body will store the extra energy as fat. But also, know that if you don't eat enough - your body will think it is starving - it will enter a starvation mode. In this mode, it wants to save all the energy (fat) it possibly can and your metabolism will plummet, making it much much harder to lose the fat you already have. This is called being 'skinny-fat'.
This is a survival skill that human biology learned long ago in harsh environments. Those biological reactions are still in us today. So you need some balance, calorically speaking.
There are ways to figure out how many calories your body needs in a day. Search the web for the DEE formula to give you a rough calculation. Then set up your new lifestyle diet: sufficient protein for muscle growth, sufficient (healthy) fats for your body's metabolic needs, and then healthy carbs. It sounds like you already have a good read on what healthy carbs are, so that is great.
I'll put you a couple of sources below so that you can learn more about this sort of transformation. The people on the first forum/link are very useful and knowledgeable about body transformation. I stumble across that site years ago and am still a member. You can even peek at some people's fitness journals and SEE their progress pics and what they've been doing. It can be very inspirational!
The second link is to an excercise and physiology directory. Combine the information from both the sites and I think you will find yourself becoming very knowledgeable indeed.
I wish you luck! I know I would have loved to have this information when i had started out!
I am almost positve that I already answered this. No, I checked and I definately did answer this already.
Start by doing an hour at the gym 4 days per week, and don't overly rely on the cardio machines like most women seem to do. Do half strength training and half on an exercise machine like the bike or treadmill.
You will probably want to adjust your diet and vitamin intake as well... Franco Columbu has a book you can get on Amazon called The Bodybuilders Nutrition Book that tells you what to eat and what vitamins to take to lower your bodyfat levels without a bunch of gimmicks and high prices supplements (most of which don't work anyway). There isn't enough space here to tell you what to eat, but the book is only ten bucks and you can get through it in an hour or so.
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