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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weight loss/total body machine

dodgegm
dodgegm
Posts: 2
Joined: 2002/09/20
United States
2002/09/23, 02:50 PM
i am 5'8" male 180 1bs, 44 years old i walk 2 miles 5-6 days per week in 30 min. i now have a total body work out machine(the one on tv you see chuck norris use} that was given to me all i want to do is get rid of the flab, and tone up dont care nothing about being big or a bodybuilder have started eating right or what i consider right, nothing fried alot of fish and vegtables. But it seems the weight is just creeping off i have been doing this for about 3 weeks and have lost 5 lbs just dont make sense iwas eating what ever i wanted and not excersing and stayed around 185 now doing everything it seems by the book and at 180
Lumina20
Lumina20
Posts: 966
Joined: 2001/10/31
United States
2002/09/23, 05:59 PM
Well, it's only been 3 weeks. You should only be losing about 1-2 pounds per week, so it sounds like you are doing fine. Maybe you just need to be patient. If you do, in fact, reach a plateau, you can try upping the intensity of your cardio or doing it for a longer period.