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Originally Posted by Indian Barbie
I'm a forum member of Bodybuilding.com, in the female section of the forum there are so many great articles for fat loss.
One issue is that people often do too much at once, find it difficult to cope with and then give up after a while. Especially when you only weigh what you do now, you will get frustrated that results won't come as fast as you would like.
You need to make a conscious decision whether you want to be fit and healthy NOW or fit and healthy FOREVER. If its the latter (and it should be), you should take small steps and gradually change your lifestyle. This is something you have to do for the rest of your life if you want to look and feel great.
In terms of exercise, always do weights before cardio. You also need to work different muscle groups each day. When you are weight training your legs, do not do cardio - the day after training legs should ideally be your rest day to help you recover. They say you don't need to do more than 30-40 minutes on intense cardio.
For better advice, I would need more information on your diet, because that is THE MOST important factor in fat loss.
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Great thank you so much for your reponse
I definitely want to be healthy forever. I have been able to maintain great shape/health in the past. Often times it's for a good year or two. But I have had issues with depression, and when that hits me, I shut down by not exercising and I engage in emotional eating. I'm definitely not complaining because at worse I put on maybe 10 to 15lbs. Should be easily taken care of in theory.
I have been at 132lbs for maybe almost a month now. I will try your advice on not doing cardio before weights. I also
really push during my workouts because that's how I am, perhaps I need to be more patient and not demand instant results. I expect it because I used to get results very fast due to high metabolism but it has obviously slowed down over the years.
As for diet an average day I will have the following:
Breakfast:
Coffee with milk
1 to 1-1/2 cups Cottage cheese or 2% yogurt mixed with fresh fruit (I try to mix with the fruit you have on your recommended list such as grapes, peaches)
1 pc of whole grain toast with almond butter (just almonds, nothing else added)
Lunch:
Salad with feta cheese and a pc of protein. Usually chicken breast, sometimes lean pork. With a Blackberry balsamic dressing (lots).
Diet coke
Snacks:
2 or 3 pc of fruit
granola bar
Coffee wilk milk
or (repeat of breakfast, the yogurt with fruit cup)
Dinner:
Here's where it gets kind of irregular.
I'll eat a little protein or carbs before I workout and then after I get home which is often after 10pm I'll eat a little protein/carbs as well. Also I don't measure these, which is probably bad lol. I will generally follow with Fresca or Diet Coke.
* Somedays I admit I will cheat and eat salt&vinegar almonds or even a few pieces of potato chips. Not making excuses but I do that to satisfy my cravings so that I don't go nuts and hit up a burger joint and get fries with gravy and a milk shake. About once every two weeks, there will be a night out where some alcohol will be consumed as well. I guess I need to stop that all together....
ps - I forget to drink water often, perhaps that is also bad too.
