Recommended Cardio

You lose weight by eating less/better.

Your diary is private, so I'm going to assume that's the problem, not exercise.

How much cardio do you do? I think I need to do more cardio to lose the weight I want to lose. I'm combining Turbo Fire with Chalene Extreme. I feel like I need to do cardio every day. Any thoughts?

If you eat at maintenance, and use the cardio to create a deficit - as much as you want.

If you are eating very restricted, like 1200, and you'll be feeding the workout so you actually get stronger, than 30 min of intense every other day is just fine. 30 min walking on in-between days is better recovery.

Weight lifting will show you better returns for your time though then cardio every day.

I just changed my settings to "public". Is that the only thing I need to do on this so my diary can be reviewed?

So ya, you don't eat back your exercise calories.

Don't do cardio everyday, you'll just start burning off muscle to provide the required glucose after a few days.

You'll lose "weight" - as muscle can provide 600 cal of energy when broken down to be converted to glucose. Plus the water weight it holds.

But if that's the desire, just cut off an arm and be done with it.

If you are interested in true weight loss, like healthy, feed your workouts, eating back those cal's.

and the 1200 goal was based on probably too aggressive of a goal setting by you. You'll probably stall even with not over exercising.

You probably want to mix up cardio and strength training instead of cardio every day. You will lose weight by using weights too. I also glanced at your food diary and from what I saw (of course, I just glanced) do you not eat dinner or you just do not log it because I didn't see dinner at all. Throw out all the junk food like fast food (mcdonalds, etc.) I mean, if you want to use these as cheat meals, go for it because I eat "bad" stuff as cheat meals but not fast food.. I try to stay away from it. Make sure your intake calories are the right amount because if you eat less than that you won't be at an optimum level to lose weight. I'm no expert so take what I say with a grain of salt and research for yourself and get other opinions but that's just mine

Thanks and have a blessed evening!

I'm going to get some milk and cookies...just kidding:laugh: :laugh:

lol Good luck with that....
Remember that losing weight isn't just about working out just as it is not just about eating less/better. You have to have both. There's no amount of exercise that will offsets bad eating habits

I do cardio once or twice a week either a 30 minute jog or 30 minutes on the elliptical. So other than that I'm mostly strength training. I think cardio is more preference. Do what you want with it.