Adrian Dinner

Good plan to lose 40-50 pounds by June?

Breakfast:
Day A: eggs, orange juice.
Day B: peanut butter toast and milk.

By June this year? Like in 2 months?!?
Just one thing…June 2012, not June 2011 or maybe March 2013, to keep lower expectations so you’re never disappointed.

The best rate of body fat loss is half a pound a week (1,750 calories of exercising is hard enough when you cannot eat more than your BMR). The slower the weight loss, the better your chance to keep it off. Do it too fast and just end up with the 95% of people who fail (like losing weight only to regain it). You’ll make the diet industry happy once you send your metabolism down the drain if you eat under your BMR.

50 pounds is 100 weeks, 700 days, almost 2 years but you could probably speed it up once you start to enjoy exercising and work out for 2 hours/day (you cannot work out more than 2 hours if you do not eat more than your BMR).

Fit people eat enough to cover their BMR and then eat more to exercise easily and efficiently to stay in shape and maintain their muscle mass. They’re actually having fun. After about 30 minutes in your THR zone, the body starts releasing chemicals to prevent pain so you can keep going. Those natural chemicals (endorphins, epinephrine, serotonin, dopamine, among others) make you feel so good…happy, energetic…

People who need to lose weight and use their fat reserves cannot eat more and have to exercise for 3,500 calories for each pound of body fat they wish to lose, doing it the hard way, with no help from extra food/energy, while being unfit with an inefficient cardiovascular system, not having the necessary muscle mass to make it easier but having to experience soreness while building muscle mass, having to deal with extra weight…basically hating exercising, thinking it’s a chore.

My answer is probably not what you want to hear. I can do worse…what’s up with the 50 crunches, the 100 squats, the 20 push-ups and the 50 lunges? How many reps you do is irrelevant. I do not even think you can do 50 crunches with proper form…3 seconds up, 3 seconds down, real seconds not just counting, slow enough to reach the deep muscle fibers and feed the burn without using momentum while keeping your belly in and your back pressed flat into the floor.
And why would you even spend 5 minutes doing crunches (50 x 6 seconds) when you could get more results adding some weights or incline and do half the reps? Same with the squats and lunges…100 squats?!? I’d get bored to death above 25 and more than 2.5 minutes (3 seconds down, 3 seconds up). Wear a weight belt or a backpack filled with books.
I don’t know about your push-ups. I cannot believe you’d be able to weigh 200lbs, be a female, and be able to do 20 floor push-ups. But you can do wall or dresser/desk push-ups (4 seconds down inhaling, 3 seconds up exhaling).
How many reps you do is irrelevant. What counts is that you progress each session, so you can add a couple of reps for the SAME physical effort as you get stronger. Stop when you feel the burn which means that you damaged your muscle fiber and now have to wait a few days to repair stronger. Rest is the most important part to get stronger. The last rep just takes a few seconds to tear your muscle fibers when you feel the burn, and before you lose proper form, but it can take days to repair stronger and build up added muscle mass.
Do not do 20, 50 or 100 of this or that. Do what you can and you do it right when you can add a couple of reps each session for the same physical effort. You should be able to triple or quadruple your strength in about 3 months so you get in shape and rev up your metabolism (plus you look great when you’re strong and toned).

Also…about your diet: learn to cook which is not just cooking an egg, or making a sandwich or a salad. Avoid anything with “bar” in it or things coming in boxes (except for whole-wheat pasta or brown rice). You don’t even need to know how to cook to use a steamer and steam salmon with broccoli and carrots on the top tier.

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