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So I'll note that the OP just said that she didn't want to follow a idea with "ridiculous restrictions" --- by which I think what she meant is diets like Keto or Atkins. Personally I don't stress about logging accurately (although I do try my best to avoid really out-of-whack calorie logging). How does that work for me?…
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Everybody is different; but for me, I gradually ramped things up to the point where I'm doing 60 minutes on the elliptical, 5-6 times a week. Some weeks when I'm really busy I'll drop back down to 30-45 minute workouts, but I found that given where I am at, the weight really dropped off those weeks where I was doing 45-60…
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I don't stay at 1200/day; for me at least, I couldn't keep that up sustainably. I hit the gym a lot, and I use a walkstation at work. So I tend to have about 2000-2500 activity calories burned per day (tracked via FitBit). That plus a basal metabolism rate of just under 2000 calories/day means that I can eat 2500 calories…
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The goal is to lose weight in a sustainable fashion. So setting too high of a goal and then failing to meet could be bad from a psychological aspect, at which point you give up. I come from an engineering/computer science background, so I found the e-book "The Hacker's Diet" (Google for it; it's available as a free e-book…
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I sometimes listen to Cardio Mix by The Chris Phillips Project: http://www.amazon.com/Cardio-Mix-Chris-Phillips-Project/dp/B0006ZXJQG But more often than not I listen to NPR podcasts while I work out.
