Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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..I need help losing weight...

sprt394
sprt394
Posts: 1
Joined: 2006/02/09
United States
2006/02/09, 07:51 PM
Hi I'm a female and I'm 5'4" and 185 pounds. I would like to lose 50-60 pounds, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions. I've started a plan and i consume about 1000-1500 calories a day and run 15-30 minutes 5 times a week. I've lost 5 pounds so far but is there any ideas as to what I could do?
mikencharleston
mikencharleston
Posts: 1,585
Joined: 2002/01/09
United States
2006/02/09, 09:08 PM
This is one of the biggest misperceptions out there. You can starve yourself and you'll lose a lot of weight for a couple of weeks. Then you'll start to lose muscle and gain more fat and your weight will remain the same or you might even possibly gain some. Get a little more familiar about what you need to do. Browse the nutrition forum for literally hundreds of ideas. Read all the thumb tack posts as there's a fountain of info in those. You want to go on a caloric deficit but not starvation.

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Mike
in Pensacola Now.
Mojo_67
Mojo_67
Posts: 1,299
Joined: 2003/09/23
United States
2006/02/09, 09:30 PM
Short and to the point...I like your style Mike.

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