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Originally Posted by Prettyhzleyez  Hello everyone! I'm Jenn, 5'2 currently 142 LBS.
My goal is to get back down to 120 but I'm having such a hard time. My eating habits at work are fine, it's when I get home is when the trouble sets in. I try to go to the gym everyday, but I'm beat when I get home. I sit in traffic 4 hours a day for 26 miles to and from work. I have to be out the door by 5:30 to be at work by 8am. So you can imagine how tired I am by the time i get home at 6:30. I'm looking for some ideas on how I can burn fat fast. I'm using an eliptical type machine at the gym and setting it to weight loss, I enter my weight and age, and it puts be at 25 mins with a 5 min cool down. My resistance goes from 1 to 8 every 4 mins. Is that a good way to start off? Anyone have any good meal plans, that are easy to maintain and cost friendly?  |
It sounds like you might want to read Steve's thread on the basic lifts (lifts for women isn't a bad thing!). Your
cardio sounds fine actually, interval training is great and
HIIT is even better (High intensity interval training). What is your current
diet like right now? Its easy to help someone tweak their current plan than to write up an entirely new one :-D
Also, this might be frowned upon, but I had the same issues of tiredness too. I did some research and found a few people pointed to CoQ10, it is an enzyme found in the mitochondria ("power house of the cell", basically this is the molecule that creates ATP from glycogen). I started using it about three weeks ago and feel that the results are really paying off for me. Its not to say I am not tired after a good workout, but I find that I am more inclined to be awake hours after it. YMMV and I suggest you google it and make your own judgements.
Good luck on everything.
