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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or at least allow me to stabilize my weight? Opinions and experiences appreciated![/quote]

This really has so many variables - your diet, age, current weight and fitness level, metabolic rate, overall health - that it's impossible for any one person's experience to translate.

But a few things I've learned in the last six months, during which I've lost 50 lbs:  walking as much as possible can be beneficial no matter what your weight objective because being still as much as we are in our culture has been scientifically proven to be detrimental.  Just start there with your thought process and try to do it regularly, not just once a day.

I used to run for 20 minutes a day just so I could get those 10K steps in a shorter period of time.  My diet is very low calorie and carbs, so I found walking to be a better form of exercise because my diet coach said running on low calories was forcing my body to hold on to the energy it had in storage (fat) and just use the energy it had from recent meals.

I also started paying attention to heart rate and found that if I walk too fast (3.5+ mph on the treadmill) I wasn't burning fat. When I stay in the fat burning range (100 - 120 bpm according to my FitBit) and do that for at least 30 minutes/day, I do see lbs falling off a little faster.

WebMD has a pretty decent explanation with their BMI calculator ( http://www.webmd.com/diet/body-bmi-calculator ), but I think the healthy range that it prescribes is pretty f*cking ridiculous.  I'm at the  lowest weight I've been in 15 years, look great and feel greater but my BMI says I'm still obese.  But a little more information about all the different variables that factor into losing weight is definitely helpful.  [/quote]

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