Hello, Chicks!
Lately, I've been doing a much better job of keeping up my calorie deficient (eating 100-200 calories below my estimated BMR) via diet alone. At the beginning of my journey, I was working out 30-40 minutes, a mixture of cardio and strength training, every day of the week. Sometimes twice!
Now that I am almost 15lb from goal and slowly coming to grips with my eating habits, I feel like it is time to give my body a break and reduce my exercise to...well.
The thing is, I'm not sure where middle ground is. I'm an extremist. In order to start exercising, I had to go to NO exercise to exercise EVERY DAY. Now, I'm finally learning at least some moderation and self control, and I feel that I could easily accept a 3 or 4 or whatever-times-a-week schedule.
So, Chicks. How often do you workout, and what do you do? (Cardio/Weights/etc.) If at all possible, I'd like to stick to doing my usual cardio routine (treadmill on incline for 20 min, 10 min warm up on bike, 5 min of stretching). If I take up a MWF workout schedule, should I lift every session or just one of the three? Or is three days not enough, typically?
Thanks for your suggestions, exercising Chicks.