I am representing a before and after photo sharing social network Fotogress, but also am sharing my own personal journey. I lose 50 pounds in a year - I had graduated and was excited to start a new journey. Running and Jillian Michaels videos are my secrets, and lots of veggies. I'm still looking to lose about 10 pounds, and I hear that is the hardest part so I thought I would get some extra motivation from this fantastic forum. What are the best tips for the last 10 pound weight loss? Motivation, eating, and exercise tips welcome. View attachment 6071
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Down 50 Pounds, 10 More to Go
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By now you will have found out the types of exercise you most enjoy and the diet that suits you best. To give you fitness guidance your preferences of type of training are key, if I suggest resistance training using free weights and you hate this but love bodyweight work I will have wasted your time reading it.
Diet wise if you have lost that volume of weight the next thing will simply be cutting down across the board to ensure there is a calorie deficit. the reason it gets harder the lighter you get is you burn less energy when lighter. I used to be 2/3 my current body weight and a run then burned far less energy than it does now. Basically stick with what you are eating and enjoying now but cut the amount of everything by 10%. It may look too simple but after a year of sensible sustainable loss you will already know it is going to work.
Motivation with regards fitness always comes down to priority 1, find stuff you enjoy. I have known people who started running, weights, yoga or one of many other forms of training and hated it. It will be no surprise they have all stopped doing them, the smarter have moved onto other things, the majority just stopped assuming they hate exercise. Being fit is a lifetime commitment and needs to be viewed as such, find your perfect match and stick with it. If your find a form of training you love that will be half as fast or less at getting you to your goal, do it and accept the time difference, you will be glad of it in years to come.
I am a strange fish in that I am a middle aged man who loves running, which I am naturally good at, weight training and co-ordination work, I am far from naturally good at, and has a chip on his shoulder about being good at all areas of fitness that doesn't make me borderline insane it puts me out of sight of the line.
Because I have found stuff I enjoy it has become an integral part of my life I view as a pleasure not a chore and I find people half my age wanting to look like me, less the balding, grey hair and wrinkles anyway or be able to do things I find easy like run 10k etc. While others my age are talking about when they used to train and wish they could get back to it.
This is why I always say finding stuff you enjoy has to be your most important priority, because in years to come it needs to be something you still want to do. When you do motivation comes easily in fact it's difficult to motivate yourself to take a break.
Diet wise if you have lost that volume of weight the next thing will simply be cutting down across the board to ensure there is a calorie deficit. the reason it gets harder the lighter you get is you burn less energy when lighter. I used to be 2/3 my current body weight and a run then burned far less energy than it does now. Basically stick with what you are eating and enjoying now but cut the amount of everything by 10%. It may look too simple but after a year of sensible sustainable loss you will already know it is going to work.
Motivation with regards fitness always comes down to priority 1, find stuff you enjoy. I have known people who started running, weights, yoga or one of many other forms of training and hated it. It will be no surprise they have all stopped doing them, the smarter have moved onto other things, the majority just stopped assuming they hate exercise. Being fit is a lifetime commitment and needs to be viewed as such, find your perfect match and stick with it. If your find a form of training you love that will be half as fast or less at getting you to your goal, do it and accept the time difference, you will be glad of it in years to come.
I am a strange fish in that I am a middle aged man who loves running, which I am naturally good at, weight training and co-ordination work, I am far from naturally good at, and has a chip on his shoulder about being good at all areas of fitness that doesn't make me borderline insane it puts me out of sight of the line.
Because I have found stuff I enjoy it has become an integral part of my life I view as a pleasure not a chore and I find people half my age wanting to look like me, less the balding, grey hair and wrinkles anyway or be able to do things I find easy like run 10k etc. While others my age are talking about when they used to train and wish they could get back to it.
This is why I always say finding stuff you enjoy has to be your most important priority, because in years to come it needs to be something you still want to do. When you do motivation comes easily in fact it's difficult to motivate yourself to take a break.
Motivational resources
I still get enough intensity from Jillian Michaels. I always feel sore after and I keep upping the intensity levels that she provides. My concern is staying motivated when I only lose .5 pounds a week at most. Any motivational resources? So far I use tumblr, but there is a lot of damaging fitspiration on there... I like Fotogress bc it is pure before and after photos.
I still get enough intensity from Jillian Michaels. I always feel sore after and I keep upping the intensity levels that she provides. My concern is staying motivated when I only lose .5 pounds a week at most. Any motivational resources? So far I use tumblr, but there is a lot of damaging fitspiration on there... I like Fotogress bc it is pure before and after photos.