hastingshouse

My resting metabolic rate is about 2300 calories per day so my caloric goal is 1800. Five hundred less is sufficient to lose a pound a week which is all I want to do. I'm not on a diet - I've been on lots of those. That's how I got to be this weight in the first place! I'm on a lifestyle change and it's working for me.

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Light weights, short rest with more reps and sets for a better pump and less injury as well as higher caloric expenditure.

I always thought that, besides heavy weights increase risk of injury.

I also have over 100 lbs to lose. I've been heavy most of my life, but never this heavy. Many years ago after I had my daughter, I was about 40 lbs less than I am right now and I lost over 100 lbs. I kept it off for 8 years until I started to suffer from depression. The combination of the depression and the meds they gave…