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cailey365
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Hey everyone!
I am new to this website although i've been using the app on and off for a couple of years!
When I started University last year I was 5'4 and 118 pounds. Throughout my life I never had to worry about my weight and was always pretty happy with it even though I did not have the best diet and rarely exercised.
Despite this, throughout a year of excessive drinking and eating pizza and other bad foods regularly, I gained over ten pounds and am now 130. Although I am not terribly unhappy with my body I would really like to lose the weight I gained before September to feel like myself again.
I have been out of school over a month now and I go to the gym nearly everyday and have tried to eat much healthier. I do about 30 minutes of cardio with about ten minutes of squats, crunches etc.
I have yet to see any progress so I am starting to get discouraged. I am open to new friends and ANY advice any of you guys have for me
My diary is open so feel free to look at that! Thanks
I am new to this website although i've been using the app on and off for a couple of years!
When I started University last year I was 5'4 and 118 pounds. Throughout my life I never had to worry about my weight and was always pretty happy with it even though I did not have the best diet and rarely exercised.
Despite this, throughout a year of excessive drinking and eating pizza and other bad foods regularly, I gained over ten pounds and am now 130. Although I am not terribly unhappy with my body I would really like to lose the weight I gained before September to feel like myself again.
I have been out of school over a month now and I go to the gym nearly everyday and have tried to eat much healthier. I do about 30 minutes of cardio with about ten minutes of squats, crunches etc.
I have yet to see any progress so I am starting to get discouraged. I am open to new friends and ANY advice any of you guys have for me
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Are you over eating your workouts? If you're keeping track of your calories consumed, and you know how many calories you're burning then you shouldn't have any problems.
Remember a pound is 3500 calories, so to lose a pound a week you would have to eat 500 calories less a day or burn that much through exercise every day. You're not considered a heavy weight, someone who eats 3000 calories a day, so for you to eat 500 calories less a day would be difficult.
Also as we know, we all are required to eat 1200 calories a day so our bodies don't go into starvation mode making it harder to lose weight, but there is nothing wrong with burning a couple of hundred of those thru exercise after you get them into your digestive track,
I am wearing a Jawbone UP that helps me to track the calories I burn. It counts the steps I take, and I can also add in workouts on UP that then syncs with MFP giving me a very clear picture of calories consumed and calories burned. And it's soooo easy. They're both uploaded to my android cell phone that's always with me.0
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