10 years ago, I joined the military. I was able to drop almost 4lbs. a week for 6 solid weeks. Granted, I was doing calisthenics, marching drills, and runs 6 out of 7 days and was eating only what they gave me to eat. I was also 10 years younger. I read on LiveStrong that while 4lbs. a week is doable, it's very difficult and takes an extreme amount of dedication (which I don't have, hence my current weight). Short of reenlisting just to go back to bootcamp, I'd like to do better than the 1.3lb. loss per week I'm currently averaging.
According to my calculations, if I burn off 1200 a day and take in 1300, I can lose about 3lbs. a week. (I factored in how much I burn through BMR) The problem is, I don't have enough time in the day to get all that in. The calorie part isn't the problem; it's the time it would take for me to get in several workouts to add up to that 1200. Plus, while I think I could probably do that for the first week, I'm pretty sure I'd just burn myself out and quit completely. So I'm looking for something more sustainable. I think I might be able to build up to this 1200/day goal if I can properly allocate my time for this.
Right now I spend about 40-45 min./night on my Treadclimber which burns about 500-550 calories. I also take an aqua class three times a week---Monday and Wednesday is Aqua-Fit and Friday is Aqua-Zumba. I know that spending any more than an hour at a time working out could be doing more harm than good, so I think for the rest of the month I'll try building up to an hour on my Treadclimber and see how much calories I can get from that. I'll continue with the 3 aqua classes a week 'cause that's where I'm getting my resistance and toning done. At the end of the month I'll assess how much I've lost and I guess make adjustments. Maybe I'll need to try to find some time to work in some time on my Treadclimber in the morning as well? Maybe add on some barbell days twice a week atop of the 3 aqua sessions?
What do you guys think? How often are you guys working out? Is my plan overdoing it? Not doing it enough?? I really wanna lose as much as possible, as fast as possible, as safe as possible and sustain this for at least 4 months straight. So I don't wanna oversell myself, but I really wanna do this.