So for the past 11 months or so, I have focused more on weight training to burn fat rather than doing cardio. I am still doing cardio each week but only about an hour for the week. Obviously I am not getting the fat off as fast as I would like to so now I am going to be upping my cardio. I am going to shoot for at least 45 minutes of cardio a day. I will be primarily spinning or doing the elliptical trainer since both of these give me a great workout without added stress on my knees.
I've been following Bethenny's Naturally thin eating plan but the weight has not been dropping off. Along with Bethenny's eating plan I choose foods from the flat belly diet as my first choice of foods. Essentially I am following a low carb diet with healthy heart fats. I have been sitting at 200 lbs for a week now. Oh sure it reflects a .06 or .02 loss or gain every other day but for some reason its not letting me get below 200. Its really frustrating. So I was curious as to how many calories I am consuming following Bethenny's eating plan and yesterday I ate 1,440 calories and on Tuesday I consumed 1,540 calories. as far as exercise goes, on Tuesday I did 12 minutes of the elliptical for 130 calories burned and then I did about 40 minutes of weight training. Yesterday, I did 101 calories on the elliptical and 704 on the spinning bike. Since I am working out so much and eating below my calories count which should be 1,608 I am surprised to see the weight is still sticking around. I should have dropped at least 1 pound. 
The other thing is I know I have really cut back on my carbs. Since Bethenny's plan recommends eating the opposite of what you ate at a previous meal, i.e. I ate a slice of whole gran toast with peanut butter for breakfast then my next meal should not contain a whole grain (carb serving) but should be made up of veggies, fruit and a protein if I wish. And over the course of the past week I have noticed that I almost always for-go consuming breads, pastas or whole grains. i usually have 1 serving a day and the rest of my day has fruits, veggies, protein and a daily indulgence of a sweet like dark chocolate.
Grr! Its so damn frustrating! I do not want to resort to having to think about my calories and slip back into diet/calorie obsession again. I want to stick to Bethenny's eating plan but I know if I ask for advice on bodybuilding.com, they will want to know the very details about the calories I am consuming.
Hopefully I see some changes in the morning.
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