132 lbs down + 6 months of weightlifting.

I have about 35Ibs to lose in total I would say currently 168Ibs. Probably best to intersperse the weight training with light cardio to begin with or a bit more challenging? Sorry about all the questions! x

not problem! happy to help!

What I would recommend, is to start with some moderate to high cardio 4-5 hours a week. If you are not in the habit of working out yet, go for medium 3-4 times a week and work up. After you have been doing this a while, and are comfortable in your routine, then add the lifting.

Lifting is fantastic. Everyone should lift, no matter their size. It can only help you. I wish i had started way sooner. That being said, the reason I told you to hold off for a bit is, people tend to get overwhelmed.

I don't know where you are in your fitness, but if you take a completely sedentary person and then tell them they are going to do 5 hours of cardio a week plus 3 hours of lifting, they would get overwhelmed and completely quit after a few days(usually). Weight lifting and cardio together are great, but just cardio is better than nothing at all. Always push yourself, but don't break yourself.

I am newly back on my journey to weigh loss... fell off the wagon for a bit. My weight and height are the exact same as yours when you began your journey, can I ask you how many calories you ate in the beginning? I always have a hard time figuring out how many calories I should be eating in order to lose weight, but not too few that I'm starving my body. I know you can figure it out on myfitnesspal, but it's always helpful to hear how others did it.

I've cycled back and forth between 1200 calories and 1500 calories. When I was larger, 1500 calories was more than enough because I was big enough that I was still dropping weight fast. As I got smaller I switched to 1200, but often (1-3 days a week) would bounce up to 1500 again because I was feeling insanely hungry or frustrated or something. So After I got to like 160 lbs, I always shot for 1200 but if I hit 1500, I was not going to beat myself up.Also, I usually ate about half the calories I burned doing cardio on days I did cardio, but if my day was going really ****ty, or I was just really hungry for some reason, sometimes I would eat all of the calories I burned during cardio. Still, even on my worst day if I ate 1500 calories AND all my cardio, I was still -250 calories, so I wasn't backsliding. Just slowing myself way down. When you start getting in the 160's losing weight is REALLY hard.

Also if you are going to eat your cardio calories, or even part of them, I strongly recommend getting a heart rate monitor. The machines that calculate the calories you burn, are usually a joke. My stationary bike is the worst. It says I burn about 1,000 calories in an hour, and it's closer to 500.