My name is Risa. I'm 23 years old and live in Boca Raton, Florida. I have battled with my weight since I was about 6 years old, and for the last couple years, I was finally winning the fight. But I slipped, gaining back 36lbs from my lowest weight in ages. Now I'm buckling down again to shed the weight so I can look on the outside the way I feel on the inside. But the road isn't always straight and smooth. For more information on my life-long weight loss journey, please view my first post here. This blog exists for me, to keep me on track and motivated. If you don't like personal posts or personal opinions, you took the wrong fork at Albuquerque!

**Please note that I am not a nutritionist, personal trainer, doctor, or in any way professionally trained in matters of health. Any advice I provide is based on my own thorough research and experiences. Please consult your physician or other health advisor for your personal needs.**

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October 13th
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a message from Anonymous


I'm always seeing posts that say you have to lift weights to lose weight/see serious results, but I don't have the possibility to lift weights because I can't go to the gym, except two filled 1,5L water bottles. If I still eat healthy and exercise with cardio (running, walking biking) and basic strength moves (pushups, crunches, squats etc.) + have 2h of trampolining and 4h of cheerleading a week, do you think I can lose weight?

OF COURSE!

The thing about weightlifting for weight loss:

Weightlifting tones, which means it can tighten skin and muscle, making you look leaner. Weightlifting also builds muscle, and muscle helps you burn a lot more calories throughout the day even when you’re not doing anything that particularly utilizes those muscles. So that’s why people advise it for weight loss. But the good news: You don’t need a gym or weights! Studies have shown that targeted muscle work is not about the QUANTITY of weight lifted, but it’s about the QUALITY of work you have the muscles doing. So 50 reps on a 10lb weight can do just as or even more effective than 10 reps on a 50lb weight. The point is to work your muscles to the point of exhaustion (meaning that when you start to feel that resistance in your arms, that’s when it’s starting to work; it doesn’t mean you should hurt yourself), and that’s what builds the muscle. So you can do pushups and pull ups, lift water bottles, or even get real creative by putting heavy shoes in grocery bags or something. That in with the cardio you described, you should have no problem. But remember: weight loss is 25% exercise, 75% food. You gotta eat right.

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