Here's my plan, any comments?

[heinous]

So I should introduce myself. My name is Leah and I have played DDR off an on for the last two years. When I first started playing I lost some amount of weight, thought that wasn't entirely my goal at the time, I was pretty happy about it. I was somewhere around 175. Well, I just realized a little over a week ago that I was up to 195 eep! I want to work to at least get back to 175, and potentially lose more weight after that. I would look fantastic around 150. Here's a picture of me currently:



Here's how I looked around 175:



So I know it can be done. Here's my current plan, any ideas or advice would be appreciated.

Play extreme at 6 nights a week for at least 30 minutes (I've been averaging about an hour a night.) I've been playing in standard mode non-stop and then in regular game mode to beat records at standard and hard levels. I've been playing some of the non-stop challenge modes too.

I'm trying to be careful not to drink too much (I like beer lots), and just have one or two guinness but not too often. I try to not eat tons of simple carbs and am eating three light meals a day. I eat a lot of vegetarian Indian food, frozen vegetarian lunch entrees, and so on. I have diet soda every once in a while, though I have heard it can be rough on diets, in my experience caffeine boots my metabolism a bit more than no caffeine. I drink a lot of water.

My job is very sedentary. I do at least sit on a fitness ball to help strengthen my back, but that's about it. I also end up doing a lot of work on my house, etc.

Well, that's about it.

[abrannan]

Sounds like a good plan. You may want to step up the DDR to 45 minutes if you can. Also, make sure you're getting enough protein with your veggie meals. Other than that, I wouldn't adjust it too much.

[heinous]

abrannan said:

Sounds like a good plan. You may want to step up the DDR to 45 minutes if you can. Also, make sure you're getting enough protein with your veggie meals. Other than that, I wouldn't adjust it too much.

Thanks. I do try to eat a lot of protein. I have a lot of sour cream, nuts, cheese, etc. Of course, it's all pretty high in fat so I'm careful not to get too cheese happy *sigh*. I love cheese so much. I eat meat here and there, just havn't been interested much lately. Like a good hamburger steak here and there though.

Thanks again.

[Laura Moncur]

Eggs and beans are another way of increasing your intake of protein.

[heinous]

Good point on the eggs and beans. I should make a batch of hard boiled eggs.