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BaconHunter, thanks for the advice! I'll give your website a good look! I haven't really checked out the Angry Birds workout, but I will now. Thanks for the heads up. Machete, Valar Dohaeris! I admit I've always been curious about Kettlebells and after doing a little research around your suggestions, I'm pretty convinced you're on to something! I'll give these routine's a look!

Hullo friends!! I'm wondering if someone would be willing to help me craft a workout routine for the coming six week challenge (and beyond). Here's the conundrum: I am 25, female and want to lose 70+ pounds in the long run (or it's equivalent as I've shunned the scale). What I'm looking for is a strength training plan that will help me burn fat efficiently--wasted effort is my arch nemesis. I'm still not sure if this means training for endurance (higher reps) or training for strength (lower reps)--but maybe that's something you can help me with! Now, powerlifting is the way, the truth and the life--at least that seems to be the prevailing notion among my friends here. But I can't afford a gym membership right now (if I could I'd just follow the stronglifts 5x5 plan). So what I need is a plan I can do at home, with dumbbells and bodyweight. Have any of you had minus 70 lbs level success using only bodyweight and dumbbells? Cardio isn't an issue. I do a long run (30-40 min) once a week usually, and will be incorporating interval runs (which I'll do three times a week right after strength training). The beginner bodyweight plan from nerdfitness is too easy at this point, but I don't have the...equipment (??) necessary to do some of the exercises--for example the bodyweight rows. My table can't handle them. I'm trying to incorporate training towards a chin up/pull up as well (because they'll make heavy lifting at home more straightforward), so I'm working up to 3 sets of 8 bent over dumbbell rows with 25 lbs weights. So...anything else you need to know? Thanks in advance!!

Hi!!! So I figured I was too late to join this challenge, BUT, I have been following/developing a plan that has been working so far! Food: I've read through, almost entirely, a book called the End of Overeating, which has drastically changed my view on food, triggers and how to eat for weight loss (I eat pretty healthfully, as I mentioned in my first post, but almost mindlessly.). Right now I'm in the middle of collecting 30 or so recipes, and calculating their calories so I can swap them around without really thinking about it (smart mindlessness ). Exercise: First off, I've given up the scale entirely. I am measuring progress exclusively with a tape measure. I've found the measurements for a size 6/8 at my favorite stores and made them my goals. I'm also bribing myself to exercise/get out of the house. For every workout--usually bodyweight with some 10lbs weights for help--I get $10 to spend on things I don't need. I'm trying to earn at least $30 a week. I also get $10 for being outside my house for more than two hours, but it has to be a self directed activity. Most of my work involves working on my computer so I don't get out much.This helps! And I have a long list of things I want! So far I've kept to the $30 a week thing (expensive!), and have outgrown the nerdfitness beginner's workout! I've moved on to the advanced--though I can't do a pull up so it's a noobier version. I think the 10lbs weights I use for pull up/chin up training might be too light for me now so I'll be moving up to 15 soon! Thanks for checking in on me! I might start a log as well.

That's right! Sometimes I'll use it on a walk, when I'm in recovery. I'm totally joining, though I am late...again! I'm still not sure where I belong, but I think I've discovered a framework that makes it all possible. We'll see!

In other news, I didn't totally trash my challenge. But I gave it a respectable go.

They do seem small enough to me--which is what's so frustrating! My goals are totally sustainable. But I think I've had a breakthrough! I think my problem is I'm expecting to gain the weight back--like I always do. What's the point in working so hard if it'll ultimately be pointless? Dark, I know. But it isn't a notion I can shake. I ALWAYS gain my weight back. It might take time, but that's the only thing that's been sure throughout my fitness journey. Isn't Zombies Run AMAZING???? If they could do something similar for walk to Mordor? I'd be dead with glee. And fit. But mostly dead.

I think most of my problems stem from my weird perspective on effort? Some part of me doesn't see the point in trying so hard if I won't get the results I want? I'm a sprinter and weight loss/getting in shape is a marathon right? One of consistent effort. I guess I've shown myself one too many times that consistent effort is something I'm unable to maintain/do? So I feel like I'm careening from health kick to health kick, losing hope and falling back into doing nothing. A distant part of me knows that if I could do the things I know I should do in my head, I would/should reach my goal. For whatever reason, perhaps all the ones I mentioned above, I don't. So mainly that sort of self sabotage.

Ahhh, needed this. Any tips on breaking a vicious cycle of self sabotage?

Omigosh! I didn't think anyone would be interested in my posting! Wow! Thank you!!! Well, I fence (Epee) and also do Kendo! My tracker (Two Grand) does let you enter comments with the pictures, kind of like Instagram. You can put recipes there definitely! And I'd love to share some recipes! Oh my gosh are you going to join? Having a friend on Two Grand would be huge!! I'm doing pretty well, though I fell off the bandwagon this weekend. I'm trying to get back into drinking the right about of water. Thanks for checking on me!

ANNE IS MY HERO

Why yes it is!! I'm a huge fan! C25K is a wonderful app and it really leveled up my cardio, but Zombies, Run! might just be my favorite? And when they add interval running I'll die of happiness!

Well, I am a day late, so first off I'll ask you to forgive my tardiness. Quite appalling, to be sure. I am a freshly minted recruit who falls somewhere between Ranger, Monk and Druid in my goals (Sage, anyone?) I don't know much about my body, beyond my extraordinary ability to put on muscle with relative ease (and the difficulty I have losing/cutting weight) but a bout with C25k has raised jogging in my estimation--from odious to doable and sometimes even enjoyable. Being ambitious, 25 and female, among other things, I have some measure of control over every other element in my life. If I'm not on my way to a solution, at the very least I have a plan. My weight/health has rarely had the pleasure. In my senior year of high school, I dropped about twenty pounds--after a summer of hard work. The following year, I experienced a freshmen - 30 for a whopping fifty pounds lost. I wasn't at my goal weight, but I was happy to have the situation under control. In the following years (college into grad school) I lost the knack of it and am now 10 pounds heavier than I've ever been at 250 lbs (5' 10/11). The cause? I imagine not having the advantage of a hilly campus to walk about on (though my systematic weight loss did patter off before I left college so perhaps not?) has something to do with it. I believe I eat rather well all things considered, but I may in fact be living in a fools paradise. So my challenge will be as follows: Goal 1: Track my food intake everyday with the TwoGrand app. Some, if not most, of the food I eat isn't easily tracked or scanned on myfitnesspal (mostly old Nigerian recipes) and attempting to do so makes me anxious and occasionally irritable. Goal 2: Do at least one "Zombies, run!" Jog/walk a week (be that story mode or an infinite run) Goal 3: Drink One water jug a day (about 72 oz) Extra Goal: Green Tea before each meal It would be lovely to have others join me on TwoGrand so that we can evaluate each others meals! You would certainly have my sword, though as I have no bow or axe you would have to settle for whatever aid I could offer as the ruler of men in training. Well, that's all I suppose!

Does visiting Prince Edward Island have anything to do with a certain little red head orphan? So this list makes me an even bigger fan (of you). I am sorry if it seems like I'm stalking you (Read: I am). UM. Also, will exchange Japanese lessons for French ones?