advice por favor :)

[dishyxx]

Over the past year and a half I've lost about 25-30 lbs. It didn't take this long, I've been maintaining my weight of around 130 for a while. Like most women, it fluctuates often.

I worked with a personal trainer at the beginning of this year and started a whole new routine. Just a 4 day upper/lower body split with cardio after. It's much more structured from what I was doing when I actually lost the weight, but I'm already bored with it. At the moment I'm just lacking serious motivation even though I feel that my goal of getting down to about 125 lbs, give or take a few, is close but so far out of reach. I know I need to re-evaluate my diet and stop making up excuses for myself, which is something I do on a regular basis. I basically want to reach my goal by the end of the summer. I know it's totally doable, I'm just not sure if I should worry about changing my routine at the gym orrr focusing more on my diet. I need a way to stay motivated during the summertime when all I wanna do is relax!

I love advice :)

[precisou2004]

what is your "diet" like ? what are your macros ? how much calories do you burn ? etc. Changing your program every 4-6 weeks is a good thing as your body gets used to it after a while then getting on a plateau...

[bachovas]

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[marilynny]

Over the past year and a half I've lost about 25-30 lbs. It didn't take this long, I've been maintaining my weight of around 130 for a while. Like most women, it fluctuates often.

I worked with a personal trainer at the beginning of this year and started a whole new routine. Just a 4 day upper/lower body split with cardio after. It's much more structured from what I was doing when I actually lost the weight, but I'm already bored with it. At the moment I'm just lacking serious motivation even though I feel that my goal of getting down to about 125 lbs, give or take a few, is close but so far out of reach. I know I need to re-evaluate my diet and stop making up excuses for myself, which is something I do on a regular basis. I basically want to reach my goal by the end of the summer. I know it's totally doable, I'm just not sure if I should worry about changing my routine at the gym orrr focusing more on my diet. I need a way to stay motivated during the summertime when all I wanna do is relax!

I love advice :)


What it boils down to is, you are participating a sport that is mostly a mental battle. If you are bored, you won't do the workouts. Take a day or two off, regroup, and change what you are doing. Of course, diet is key, but seriously, if you dread the gym, you'll stop going, and you'll start slacking on the diet. This sport is ALL IN YOUR HEAD! Just gotta trick yourself...

[dishyxx]

I don't really keep track of the food I eat anymore, as in, I don't put it all into the computer and have it give me numbers. I got obsessed doing that and it wasn't helping. I just eat as balanced as possible throughout the day without worrying too much about numbers.

Typically, my day's worth of food would look like...

Breakfast: Cereal, or toast, or eggs
mid-morning: Protein shake
Lunch: tuna, turkey burger, salad
mid-afternoon: granola bar, rice cakes, apple
Dinner: Grilled chicken or lean meat with broccoli, sweet potato
before bed: cottage cheese

that's pretty ideal. Of course I go out to eat every now and then, but I try to get a healthier option on the menu. And occasionally I cheat with some ice cream or cookies or something... as well as drinking. Since it's summer, I drink at least once a week, but never anything over the top. I don't like getting "trashed" :)

I forgot to mention I'm in physical therapy for my knees, so my lower body workouts have been modified so I'm not doing any squats/lunges. I'm bummed :(

[trainwithrae]

First off, I wouldn't focus on getting to 125. I mean is it the number that matters to you or how you look? That said if it's fat you're trying to drop you're really going to have to weigh and measure our your food and track it. The type of food you're eating looks good but without measurements we have no clue what to tell you to change.