Which plan would you go with?

[taxi]

hey gang

i lost 25 pounds over the summer by just going 1200 calories a day every day and not exercising much.. as soon as class started i wasn't able to maintain this, i gained 5 pounds before i even realized what i was doing and now i'm back on the wagon. but this time i don't know if i can go that low on eating when i have the stresses of class on me, so i'm wondering should i just exercise tough self control and stick to 1200 or should i go for the 1500 + 30 minutes of exercising in the morning?

my goal is to lose 15 pounds by christmas

thx

[abrannan]

Do whichever you think you can maintain long term, which in this case sounds like the 1500+exercise plan.

[horsey0920]

Ok you should try what I'm doing, it's working so far for me, but I'm also an entirely different person. Try to eat 1,500 calories a day, but not too much more and I do Billy Blank's Tae Bo, do that for 30-40 minutes at first for only like 3x a week, then move it up as you get better, Tae Bo does work, it's fun, fast, and he's really motivating.

[fharyn]

I lost 95lbs in a year. I didn't have any changes in my diet plan, at first. All I did was play DDR and ITG, and the pounds started falling like mad. Eventually my diet changed, but only because I wasn't as hungry any more, and ate less. I drank lots of water though.
I've never been much of a calorie counter, well..not at all. It takes a lot of my time and I start feeling negatively motivated, and feel like giving up hope. So I just don't do it.

But everyone is different.

If u don't have DDR or ITG yet, I'd suggest u look into it. If u don't have a video game system, or can afford one, u can download Stepmania on your computer, and buy a dance pad (and usb extention). At one point I couldn't even afford that, so I wound up just playing stepmania and put a bath rug on the carpet, and pretended it was the center of the dance pad. HAHA!
Hey...it helped. I'd play like 20 songs straight in a row. Breaking between each song. That was probably about an hour.
And hey...u can download almost any song u like (not just DDR songs).

It would probably be easier for me to exercise more than to eat less calories.

Good luck with whatever u decide/decided

~Fharyn~