| lawn_gnome78
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Papa - you are the coolest, thanks for your informative post.
I expiramented and did three days of cardio, three days of weights interchanged and had the seventh day of rest for a solid three weeks. My own reflections on how it went can be seen in my journal; I just wanted to stop in and thank everyone for giving thier opinions to this subject.
I'm still at the same weight I was three weeks ago, so I've bumped up my cardio to an hour each time. A solid week of that has shown no loss, so I'm giving it another week at least and will see what the scale and tape measure says then.
Thanks again, everyone! |
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Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:59 pm |
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| Kimboroni
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You're doing amazingly, LawnGnome!
Don't get down about a stall-- you've lost so much, so your body probably needs some rest from the weight loss thing. The best thing for now is to make maintaining your goal for a while. You'll need to know how to do that anyway, so get in some practice now.
You've had about a 25% reduction in body size, which is quite a shock to the system. Don't burn yourself out trying to do something which your body very likely isn't ready to do for the time being. |
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Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:12 am |
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| lawn_gnome78
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Thanks, Kim, for the advice. I guess I never thought as the weight loss as a "shock" to my body, since it took over a year to drop 60lbs.
Do you mean I should not be bumping up the cardio, that I should just do my normal thing (the usual 30 minutes)? |
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Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:01 pm |
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| Kimboroni
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I don't know about *shouldn't*-- you could try it. I know that when I bumped up my cardio hoping to jumpstart more losses, I actually ended up stalling until I started eating more to support the extra exercise. It's kind of a funny situation-- the body is a complex thing.
You probably don't need the "I almost died" workouts, because overly taxing yourself is counterproductive. Unless that's just a lot of exaggeration! You don't want to be so tired-- a good gauge of your workout is that you could carry on a conversation... not easily, but not gasping for breath either. |
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Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:54 am |
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| lawn_gnome78
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Kim - I checked out online how many calories I should be eating, and for "extreme fat loss," it should be around 1800. I bet I'm eating more than that, but I'd have to add them up to see.
The "almost died" workouts are really me exaggerating - lol!!! I say that if I have sweat rolling down my neck and getting in my eyes, and if it was a real challenge. I figure it's not a good workout unless I'm glowing afterwards at least. I know to pay more attention to my breathing, since different people sweat differently - so I do look at that too. Thanks again! |
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Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:10 pm |
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