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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's some inspiration - I was you.  I am 5'8" and was at about 165 when I reached my breaking point.  I started cardio 4-5 days a week and carefully tracked calories with the app Lose It.  Within 3 months (that spanned the holidays) I was around 150.  I am at about 130 now.  I firmly believe that it takes both cardio and calorie tracking.  Working with a trainer is great, but don't expect to lose weight from that alone.

You can do it, you just have to make up your mind to put in the work and then do the work.  [/quote]

Very inspirational!   Anything particulars other than calorie counting diet wise?  What kind of cardio ?   Congrats!!![/quote]

The calorie counting made me eat better -- lean meats, lots of veggies and some fruit, beans, greek yogurt -- because I found I needed to get the most out of every calorie or I'd be hungry at night.  No matter what, I stuck to my calorie allotment but added about half the calories I burned exercising (wore a calibrated heart rate monitor for that so that I didn't overestimate).  I ate protein in at every meal, and made sure to have a little fat at all meals, but especially breakfast.  That seems to hold me until mid-morning then half a cup of greek yogurt with some fruit so that I  am not starving at lunch time.  Salad only for lunch always left me hungry and unsatisfied no matter how much chicken and hard boiled egg I put on it, so I usually have a sandwich (whole grain bread).  Snack typically is carrots or celery with hummus or peanut butter, or almonds.  Dinner is lean meat (fish, chicken, pork loin) with a plate of steamed veggies.  If I get hungry at night and have calories left, I make popcorn (stove top, not microwave).  I stopped daily calorie counting after about about 4 months when I got a good sense of what I could eat.  But anytime weight loss stalled before I reached my original goal (140 or 135, can't remember), I counted again and usually found I was eating too many calories.  And most of the time that was because I hadn't adequately lowered my intake to account for my lower weight.

Exercise was primarily spinning or outdoor cycling, with a weekly aerobics class using weights and a yoga class.  Bad knees so running is out for me but that would be great cardio.  I now do more cardio weights classes than spinning because I probably did too much spinning in my weight loss phase which made by IT bands and hip flexors sensitive.[/quote]

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