800cals

Lots of cardio! I do zumba and swim and that does some serious burning overall. I am alot heavier than you I am sure but over all the numbers for those 2 excercises are pretty high for most people reguardless of their weight. A HRM is going to get you the most accurate count to be sure so def check into getting one if you do not have one.

Also I know you said you were not interested in this info but I have to tell you since I JUST went through it. I decided that since I am so big that I should KICK *kitten* in the gym and go at it biggest loser style. And I seriously upped all my workouts sometimes 3 classes a day and swimming 2-3 times a week mixed in. I did a combination of cardio and weight training. I did this for about 2 weeks and in that time I upped my calories like suggested... I gained 5 pounds. My body freaked out! Some of it was just bloat but legit weight that has yet to come back off now that I have re adjusted my cals and excercise is 2 pounds. So be careful maybe add another 20 mins a day to what you are doing for a few days so your body can adjust then add another 20 repeat.. do the same with your cals. My trainer said that I was over trainng and eating more cals with no warning to my body so it just did not react the way one would think. SO I think your goals are not unrealistic just keep in mind you might not get a loss immediatley and instead see a gain so maybe just gradually over the course of say 3 weeks do the increase! BEST of LUCK! :flowerforyou:

wow im really suprised to see people saying "you have to be seriously over weight to burn that"

no, you have to be seriously working hard, and you totally can girl! and it would help to monitor your heart rate, there is an awesome free app that you can download with a smart phone that tracks HR, and it works within a point of my super expensive wrist band HRM

if you did 60 minutes of hardcore cardio, i mean like HARDCORE and then 30 minutes of HARDCORE high intensity weights you could easily hit that amount of calories burned


that pizza picture was awesome

I agree with what you said. I do a bootcamp class about 5 times a week and on a good day with a heart rate monitor I can burn upwards of 700 calories in just 60 minutes. My average heart rate during the class is about 160 with a max of 180. So yeah if you kick your own *kitten* HARD CORE then you can totally burn that much in an hour.

I'm 5'5 157lbs

The CDC says 2lbs a week is perfectly healthy. Is half a pound really that much more?

I'm really not going to keep arguing this. OP I wish you the best of luck!

Creating a calorie deficit of 1,250 a day is not reasonable, especially as your size shrinks.

Swimming.

The CDC says 2lbs a week is perfectly healthy. Is half a pound really that much more?

I'm really not going to keep arguing this. OP I wish you the best of luck!

Creating a calorie deficit of 1,250 a day is not reasonable, especially as your size shrinks.

DskGrl, I love you, but I think we're wasting our breath here. You can talk reason to unreasonable people, or make people listen who don't want to...

At this point the hope is that anyone else reading will see the sense in it. The OP and some others don't want to.

This is one of those tell.me what I hear or screw off threads. Op, please come back in10wka with pics on tips on how you lose 2.5lbs a week.

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Spin classes burn a ton of calories. I'm 5'10" 136lbs and I burn 400-460 calories for 60 min of spin.

Also, rock climbing! (sounds weird) but there is a Rock Climbing Gym about an hour from my house and I went to give it a try a few weekends ago. I was surprised at how many calories I burned, it was so much fun and definitely a good workout!!!

Ain't gonna happen. It's going to be more like 1 pound a week, and when you get down to your last 10-15 pounds it will probably be half a pound a week. The stress you create trying to lose 2.5 lb/week will cause your cortisol levels to rise and prevent weight loss.



in response to this...i did an 8 week fitness challenge and lost 20lbs which is more than 1lb a week. i went from 151 to 131 counting calories, lifting weights and a lot of running. it is possible

I am able to burn that much and in that much time with spin classes and hot yoga

according to my HRM I can burn that amount in an hour (possibly a little more) when i do either of the following

- jogging an average of 5 mph
- circuit style workouts with a weighted complex like the tumminnello or cosgrove complex intermixed with short bouts of sprinting, jump roping, rowing, or plyo jumps


that's pretty much it. everything else only gets me to a 400-600 calorie burn in an hour.

oh and i'm still 40 pounds overweight

I use the Arc Trainer and I can burn around 900 calories an hour, but I am basically running on it, with incline set to basically stair stepping.

I power walk at a 4.5 mph pace and burn off about 800 calories in 90 minutes on hilly terrain.