I think metabolism is definetly an important factor in weight loss, but not the most important. I think your best bet in increasing metabolism is exercising and eating consistently healty balanced meals.

Cardio is important to burn calories and lose weight, but aslo because poor diet and lack of exercise is the second leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. Cardiovascular fitness has so many health benefits its not even funny. Exercise lowers your risk for every kind of disease and death.

Diet is an extreamly important factor in weight loss. You dont actually have to eat less to lose weight you just need to change what you eat and how often. For example I would bet that I eat way more food that a 300lb person. This is because I eat healthy food and I exercise. Healthy food has less calories than junk food. A bananna is larger than the average candy bar yet the candy bar has 3 times the calories. So by eating healthy you can eat a larger volume of food and feel full but be consuming less calories. Exercise and increases in muscle from exercising are going to increase your calorie demads creating the deficit in calories resulting in weight loss.

You don't want to try to lose weight by just altering your diet alone, and you don't want to just try to do it by exercising. Changes in diet and exercise independently will result in weight loss, but together they are much more effective and have a greater cumulative affect.

Which brings me to my next point, dont take diet pills:lol:

Week ??

Last weight 216
new weight 214.5

until next time

Week ??

Last weight 214.5
New weight 210.5

c ya guys
P.S seems i`am the only one here :P

Great work Yogy, you are making great progress. Four pounds in a week is really good, what is your goal?

I'd like to chirp in I started at 130 in february and now in June I'm up to 140. :yipi: I'm still at 5'7" though.... :oops: But I turned 16. :yipi:

Great work!

You're lucky, I'm only 5' 5" now...

i started at 253.5 lb and i am to get to 185 lb , slowly but surely i am getting their. i`ll try to keep this thread update as much as u i can :)

Oh my god. It's 106f in the sun. I ran for only about 30 minutes for about the 4th time this year. Less then 4 miles. When I started running after lifting I was 147 pounds. When I got done running I was 142 pounds. Everything I touch gets a puddle on it. wow.. Holy crap.... I'm tired..

I did 6 reaps at 155 hang clean today!

Week ??

Last Weight 210.5
New Weight 207.5

getting closer :)

That's impressive, I suck at hangcleans...

And I'd join you all in this project but I'm in a similar boat as Metallover and MetalMan, I'm looking to maintain my 170lb weight (maybe add 5 lbs) but get down from 12.7% body fat to the 7-8% range. Supposedly it's 80% diet, 20% exercise, we'll see!

Also, good job Yogy, you're getting there! ..but I wonder where everyone else is? :P

As I started this thread I'll confess I went completly the wrong direction and ended up at 218...

Last 4 weeks I've been cutting back and excercising - scales said 211 today - target is still 182... I have a long way to go...

You should post your weight every week for some extra motivation. We can tease you if you don't do enough! :tongue:

Hey! E-Traxxer and Arct1k! I wanna see you guys posting up weights and what you did. We need some life on this thread!

Alright, well today was a cardio day for me so I ran 2 miles, biked 5 miles, rowed 2 miles, and climbed 100 flights of stairs. Also worked on my legs on the machines and some lunges/squats. Tomorrow is tricep/core/back.

Current Weight: 168.9lbs