I'm currently dieting and for the first time in a long time, I'm feeling confident that I may actually stick with it this time and finally hit my goal.
In conjunction with cutting my calories strictly, I've been trying to incorporate exercise into my daily routine as well. A lot of CICO calculators, indicated that in the long term I'd reach my goal faster if I did some exercise as well and I want to do everything I possibly can to get as thin and healthy as quickly as I reasonably can.
I told myself, that I should just try to stick to 30mins/day since I really hate exercising and this seemed like a manageable goal for me. I was worried if I tried to commit to anything too lofty, that I'd just give up and call it quits.
So far (two weeks now), this has been really do-able for me. I don't eat back any of the assumed calories that I lose through exercise, since I know the amount lost is probably unreliable, and so it feels good to just be doing a little extra to try to speed up the process.
I tend to get a little obsessive when I'm losing weight though and I've already felt it kick in. As much as I hate exercising still, I'm starting to feel like 30 mins isn't enough. Like I could and should be doing more because that's the only way I'm going to get thinner faster. I've tried telling myself that I should just stick to 30 for now and I can always bump up the intensity (like the tension on my stationary bike) or that I can always add longer exercises in later, since I'm worried that if I force myself to do too much, knowing I hate it, that I'll just burn out and stop all progress at all.
Is 30 mins a day realistically enough to help weight loss efforts if you don't eat back any of the calories? I should also mention that I'm obese, so I've got a lot of weight to lose. Additionally, I have a stressful, sedentary job that requires me to be sitting for long hours every day- so it's not as if I'm really active besides the workouts that I do.
Is 30 mins good enough for now? Or should I be pushing myself to do more and risk burning out and giving up? I feel like 30/day is safe but maybe it's too safe?
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