healthisinplease's Journal

I hope this is of benefit to you?

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Papazoglou4.html

I do them once a week, with proper technique (important).

You will really ache for a couple of days after, but your metabolism will rise.

good luck!

I think it is a matter of just being patient - you gotta let your body catch up - I know that for myself I have a 2 week lag.
What I mean by this, if I eat badly for a week or so then I will continue to 'loose' and then 2 weeks later I will all of a sudden gain, then it takes me 2 weeks to start the downwards trend again. The same goes for when I eat well, if I eat well for 2 weeks or so - like reeeaaallly well, its only after 2 weeks that I see any results.

I do also know that you should do cardio on one day and strength on the other. Otherwise you burn too much on a single setting.

I cardio Tues and thurs 1hr 20 (30mins, 30mins, 10-20min of either bicycle, crosstrainer, treadmill, step)
And then strength train 1hr 20 on Mon, Wed and Fri. (with a 30min warmup of something cardio)
Then do nothing on the weekend.
If I don't make it to gym, then I horseride or swim.

I think its alot, it works out to be about 600 - 700 cals for the cardio days and I think maybe 800 - 900 on the strength days.

This see's results - but is gruelling. But thats what my personal trainer put me on and I love it :)
I eat about 1500 cals no matter what. I should prob eat more. But this works for me at the moment.
I am also not loosing cause I haven't kept this up solidly, I will do this a week here and then a week there.
But when I did it for 3 weeks str I lost major inches!

any help?

You've already lost a lot of weight, and it sounds like you've hit a plateau. I've lost about 66 lbs, and I overcame my sort of semi-plateau (it was last month, but I don't know if it was a real plateau because it only lasted 2.5 weeks and I was still losing, just VERY slowly) by eating normally for a week with twice the exercise, and then reducing calories back down to dieting levels with normal exercise. I'm older than you (23 years old), and 5'11". My diet intake averages to 1600 kcal a day (average burn = 2400 kcal a day), but since you're still growing, I'd recommend you averaging your kcal intake at 1700 a day or so. Some days you might eat 1900, some days it might be 1600. What matters is the average, as your body doesn't register calendar days or whatever.

As for what I do to work out: I walk 6 miles a day, and bike another 6 miles. That's a normal day for me. 1.5 hours of walking at 4mph, plus a half hour of biking at a leisurely pace (12mph). I incorporate this is into my day to day activities, as walking/biking is my main mode of transportation. I kind of refuse to drive unless I have to, but I live on the beach in California, so the weather is very permitting. I do upper/lower body resistance training at home using a kettle ball and resistance bands 2x a week for 30 minutes. I've never had any upper body strength, so that wears my muscles out easily, but I'm working on improving that

I know you've been given a lot of advice, and you don't have to take any of mine. I know how frustrating losing weight can be, though, and I just wanted to share what has worked for me in the past 7 months.