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Portion Control Tips
I have an issue I think with portion control, my eyes have always been bigger than my stomach, and I almost always finish my plate regardless if I'm full or not. I just would like to know if anyone has any tips you go by when eating, like for example, don't eat more meat than about the size of a deck of cards, and…
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weight lifting or cardio
I'm wondering if I should be doing only cardio right now, and start weight lifting when I lose more weight. I'm about 200lbs and want to eventually be down to about 135ish. From what I've been reading cardio is the best, I tried alternating days, but somehow I just slowly lost my inspiration, I wasn't seeing enough…
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fasting
The idea of fasting popped into my head today, I was wondering everyones experiences with it, is it ok to workout while fasting? I've read about juice fasting, water fasting and raw food fasting, but I'm wondering how long I should fast for if I chose to try it. Cleansing my body sounds right, but I'm not sure how to…
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warming up and cooling down
So I figure warming up before exercizes is important, because it readys your body for a workout. But is the cooldown nesessary? I would figure I would want to keep my heart rate up basically as long as I could to keep burning calories. I've also heard that stretching after workouts is better that stretching before them.
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5 pounds lighter in the morning, 5 pounds heavier at night
I don't know if its me or my scale, but I will weigh myself at one point during the day and the scale will say one number, then at another time during the same day I will weigh myself and there will be a 5 pound difference! What is going on??? I'm almost 100% sure I can't be eating 5 pounds of food in a day, I drink at…
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Rest Days, do I need them?
I've been doing the ripped in 30 dvd, for 7 weeks now and have only started couting my calories recently, I used to eat terribly and am now starting to see real results..do I really need to take at least one day off a week? I actually enjoy the dvds but if I'm actually sabatoging myself by not taking a break once a week…
