[thewomanwithin67]

Anyone ever hear of JORGE CRUISE fromGood Housekeeping Magazine?

I found some info on weight loss & exercise from him that sounds great.

He promotes the 3-hour diet like Lea says www.3hourdiet.com

Every day for four weeks, spend 26 minutes walking: a three-minute warm-up, a 20-minute power walk and a three-minute cool-down.

Some research suggests that exercising before you eat breakfast may help you whittle down faster. The reason: When your body is full of food, your insulin levels rise — and when those levels are elevated, you can't burn fat.

How to get fit fast? Whether you're a beginner or already a footpath regular, the trick is to find the right pace. Go too slow for your level and you can hit a weight-loss plateau, where you walk and walk without seeing the scale budge. Exercise so hard that you end up super sore for days and you'll do the worst thing possible: lose your motivation. The last thing you want is to burn out and start rationalizing your way out of exercising at all.

To find the best stride, try to talk while you're walking and see how hard it is. If you're a beginner, for example, you shouldn't be pushing too hard; you should have enough breath to carry on a conversation. However, I've found that if you're able to talk nonstop for 20 minutes, you're not moving fast enough. An avid walker? Chatting should leave you huffing and puffing.

Over the weeks, you'll grow stronger, so you may need to bump up your speed (or walk up a few hills) to keep the fat burning. If you want to lose even more weight over the next four weeks, stick to a 1,450-calorie daily diet.

[findingme4me]

thanks, this is great advise and really puts it on to clear view....thanks!! since summer is on its way and walking will be the thing to do i will def be useing this advice
Cassandra

[susanpesek]

What little I know of the 3 hour diet, I like it. It's based on sound principles.
And I, too, have heard it's most effective to exercise early in the morning. I used to have a little something on my stomach, exercise, then finish breakfast and it worked like a charm.

[thewomanwithin67]

When I went to my doctor at the end of April, I started a new type of exercise plan. It's called Interval Training and can be done with any type of exercise plan or fitness level.

If you want to research try Google and type in: interval training

The first 4 or 5 days, I noticed a pretty good improvement in my stomach area, I can actually contract my stomach muscles and see some movement in there!

I've lost 11.6 lbs in 12 days, and almost back where I was at the beginning of March before taking 6 weeks off Phen.

I try and do 10-12 min of stretching or resistance bands before.

0:00 - 6:00 Warm up: 0% incline 2.3mph
6:00 - 10:00 0% incline 3.2-3.5 mph jogging
10:00 - 16:00 2.5 mph Walking
16:00 - 20:00 0% incline 3.2-3.5 mph jogging
20:00 - 26:00 2.5 mph Walking
26:00 - 30:00 0% incline 3.2-3.5 mph jogging
30:00 - 40:00 Cool down: 0% incline 2.3 mph

I started off with warming up, then 20 sec of jogging @ 3.0, then 3-5 min of slow walking 2.3, then repeat the process until you are tired or the end of your 30 min, then cool down for 10 min. Each day I increased my jogging time until I could do 4 min straight at 3.4 yesterday, with 6 min of walking at 2.3 & 2.5 after.

What this does is increase your heart rate to a point that when you stop the high intensity, your body is still burning fat at a faster rate and lactic acid won't build up.

In the past year, I have tried to jog/run off and on and haven't been able to until I tried this method. If you can't jog/run then try very fast paced walking in place of the jogging, or if you bike; rev it up for that time period followed by slower peddling.