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Hey, I'm at work so this will be short, but we are here for support! Seems like you have an established fitness routine. With yoga, I found some free YouTube videos that were decent, think they were the "30 days of yoga" or something like that. I usually do whole body strength routines for about 1 hour 2x a week, but I focus on compound body weight exercises. I also do HIIT, and if your having difficulty doing it on the treadmill, I found starting it on the elliptical had helped me, I recently went to start doing it on the treadmill and I noticed the difference. As far as diet goes, I've found calorie counting my biggest friend. I have some slow cooker chili and pulled pork recipes, not exactly healthy, but if you do portion sizes correctly it works pretty well. I also eat a lot of chicken, I get boneless skinless chicken tenders/breasts and make different things with them like chicken tacos, chicken sandwiches, chicken salad, etc. Good luck with your goals! Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

Welcome to the rebellion! You have taken the first step in preparing in your mind the desire to change. There are plenty of resources for motivation, and communities to help you out. Remember, the beginning is always the hardest, so don't get discouraged early on. Small, sustainable changes are what worked best for me, if I tried to take too much on at once it made everything difficult. Good luck! Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk

Well, as far as scheduling goes, mine can fluctuate as well, abeit not as much as yours. For me, I usually get off work, eat a meal (usually dinner), let it digest for 30min, and then workout. Don't feel you need to conform to typical workout times, I'm often starting a workout at 8pm. If course if working out affects your sleep, you will have to adjust. I enjoy bodyweight exercises, especially since most of these can be done outside a gym, thus you can get a workout in at home or outside your house. As far as what exercise to do between the two you mentioned, I would choose which one sounds like more fun to you. For bodyweight exercises, I started with the beginner one on this website, then eventually followed the workout plan and progressions of startbodyweight.com.

Hello Everyone, I have been a reader of this website for about 7 months, and since it helped me when I was starting out in my weight loss mission, I thought I would share my story (not to be confused with the title of a Scrubs episode). My background: I always was a bigger in high school, but I managed to get healthier in college when I joined a sports club. At my best, I was 160 pounds but had little strength. My height is 5'10. As college went on, I eventually left the club and gained weight slowly for 5 years, until I ended up 250 pounds and was completely out of shape. I struggled with that weight for additional 5 years, improving to 220 pounds at one point but did not keep up good habits and it always went back to 250 with time. My rebellion: Before finding this website back in February, I made a decision to try to lose weight once again. I started out with no diet change, and light cardiovascular exercise for 30 minutes a day (starting with a stationary bike and then to a elliptical machine). My weight after this month period was about the same, and although I felt better with the cardiovascular exercise, the lack of weight loss was disappointing. I know I needed to start diet change and adjust my workouts, and was searching the web for fitness guidance. Enter Nerdfitness: I found this website intriguing because I enjoyed the writing, the stories, but most of all the guidance it gave to newbies in fitness and backed up the writing with links to scientific articles. I started to make slow changes in my diet. For example, I went from having soda at lunch and dinner to having it only at dinner. Originally I substituted it with lemonade, then eventually went to water. I also started doing the beginner bodyweight exercises 2-3x a week in addition to continuing the 20-30min of elliptical exercise 2-3x a week. As my fitness grew with time, I started changing the elliptical exercises from steady state to HIIT, and then went to the angry birds bodyweight routine. With all this put together I started to slowly lose weight. Beyond Nerdfitness: While I continually read this website for additional tips and tricks to add into my weight loss and diet, I did not have the money for the nerdfitness academy, so I continued to search for different exercises and other tools to help me. The following tools also played a major role in my journey: 1) Myfitness Pal App: I started using this app as a calorie tracker. I attribute much of my weight loss to using this tool. Before, even with making diet changes, I was still eating way too much food in general. With simply starting to track my calories with it set to 1 pound weight loss goal per week, I began to realize how much I was eating. This app helped my get my portion size under control, and I have continued to log everything I eat since I started using the app. 2) Startbodyweight.com: I really began to enjoy bodyweight exercises, and the progressions on this website allowed me to start gaining strength. I also believe I found this website from nerdfitness. While I still workout in the gym, I mostly do bodyweight exercises, with maybe 1-2x a month using the weight machines or barbells/dumbells to switch it up. My goal: My goal is to get down to 170 pounds. I am currently at 205 pounds (45 pounds lost), with averaging 1 pound of weight loss every 5-6 days. I have continued to make minor changes in my diet over time, with adding more chicken, making more food at home, and adding more fiber and protein to help keep me fuller longer. I have progressed in bodyweight exercises around 3-4 progressions in each type of exercise. My exercising has gone from in the beginning 5-6x a week, to a more stable 4-5x a week. I do about half strength training for 40-50min and half HIIT for 30min (with the occasional relaxing steady state cardio). I just wanted to share my story since this website was my jump off point to better health. Any questions or comments are welcomed.