Well, I was looking at some journals and found one particulary interesting... it was about a girl (I have it bookmarked at home not here... it may have been a sticky... I can link it when I get home) who's been exercising/calorie limiting herself for more than 1+ year and she looks great! According to the calculator on that site, if I want to maintain my weight I should eat 1700
calories/day.... so I was thinking if I want to lose 1
pound a week then I should limit my calorie intake to 1200 - but sometimes that's really hard so to make it more realistic I say 1400-1200/day (so I don't kill myself if I ever go over 1200/day)
So then... I'm guessing muscle build-up = "faster"
weight loss (b/c muscle uses more
calories than
fat does) but does not necessary help me lose weight in certain particular areas...
EDITING: Question though - you mentioned building lots of muscle isn't going to happen... at one point I started doing sit-ups and crunches for 2 months and I noticed my lower stomach got slightly elevated... the height was centered in the middle of my lower abdomen (see image done in paint at school - so even worse)
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/4140/19740485ry8.jpg
When I thouch it it's relatively hard (at least compared to my friends/cousin who never exercise and just
diet) but the sides of my stomach are completely flat.... what is that? I mean could have be some muslces or just plain increase in
fat? (asking this because I never gain weight in my stomach so when I noticed it I immediatly quit any stomach
exercises...)... I guess this one point is what's stopping me from resuming my exerice on that part
