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Originally Posted by Glammy
Has anyone watched this documentary on MTV? (airs on Wed nights at 9pm Central). Basicailly it's these overweight people who lose ridiculous amounts of weight (I"m talking 90-100lbs) in 3-4 MONTHS!! Yes Months!! It's not smokes and mirrors either. THey don't really tell u what their eating on their diets and what exactly they do for working out, but they show bits and pieces of it. But it is actually a HUGE weight loss in 3-4 months.
Anyways, last night the girl weighed 250 starting and 89 DAYS later she weighed 160 at her goal. I would really like to know how this is possible.
I know on this MRC program you can only work out 5 hours a week supposably, but is there really a limit to working out? How can they put a limit on it..I mean working out is GOOD! I want to work out more, but in the back of my mind I feel like it will sabatoge my mrc plan.
What do you do for your workouts? Would anyone be willing to share their workout routine. What they do, for how long and how many days a week?
I want to start shedding the pounds!
Debi, correct me if I'm wrong on any of this--
The only reason MRC limits workouts to a certain degree is because of how restrictive the meal plans are. If you work out to much/too strenuously and don't take in enough calories, your body goes into starvation mode and/or you lose lean muscle mass instead of fat. If you prefer to work out more than the 5 hours a week, they can move you to a meal plan that's designed for that-- I believe it's called Metabalance.
When I first started on program (when the weather was nicer), I walked 2 (sometimes 3) times a week with my sister. After I lost about 10-15 lbs, I started attending 1-hour yoga classes twice a week, and I would sometimes walk or bike once a week in addition to that. Now, I am attending yoga twice a week, and I'm making more of an effort to bike/walk/run at the gym at least one other day during the week. My goal is to get up to exercising 4-5 times per week by this spring, including yoga, a cardio class like zumba, and running/biking/lifting weights.
It's not that I CAN'T work out more (other than time/schedule constraints), it's that I didn't enjoy it when I first started the program, and if I don't enjoy it, I start to sabotage myself. The more I lose, the more energy and endurance I seem to have and the more I actually enjoy working out. Eventually, if/when my workouts surpass the calories I'm taking in and my weight loss stalls, I will probably switch to the metabalance meal plan. Until then, I'm just going to ease into it and keep doing what works for as long as it works.
The pounds will come off--as Debi always says, this plan works as long as you work the plan. You just have to be patient and remember that really FAST weight losses--like what you see on TV reality shows--while possible, really aren't healthy or easy to maintain (unless you're rich and can afford a personal chef/trainer to practically live with you and stay on top of you). It's not just about the weight loss--it's also about behavior modification and, for some, dealing with some psychological issues. And all of that takes time. That's why we usually describe this as a journey--because you don't want it to be a quick trip/vacation, as then you'll just be returning to your old lifestyle when it's over.