hi, it is ironic that i've been searching for more information on CD/TG after hitting the gym and here is a relevant topic. nothing will help you better for losing weight than hitting the gym and weightlifting. you cannot target parts of your body for weight loss, just like you cannot target the body for fat gain. if you want to lose weight, there are several things you can do. they are all simple but the are hard:
1) food diary. be honest with yourself and catalog what you eat, when you eat it and how much you eat. this will tell you how much you are overeating by and give you good ideas of how to trim back on the diet. my big sin was having 1-2 beers a day (as a sleep aid) and eating chips too much.
2) weight lifting. i follow a powerlifting program, but you can do a bodybuilding program too. not only will you burn fat and gain muscle and strength doing this, but if you balance out your calories, you'll mostly just strengthen and tone the muscles you have while burning fat. you won't see much or any growth doing this method.
3) cardio. this will assist in removing the weight and breaking through weight loss plateaus. cardio alone, or cardio and dieting, is a one way ticket to regaining all the fat back. the reason why is that cardio not only burns calories immediately, but it improves your body's metabolic efficiency, which leads to a lower required metabolic daily demand for calories. you will then have to increase your cardio and drop your calories more to see additional weight loss. but your body still expects more calories because of leptin and ghrelin, which control satiety. when you do weight lifting, you burn calories while lifting, more calories while repairing the muscle damage, and since you are putting on muscle, your metabolic demand goes up. lifting weights is also a massive cardio demand on the body.
the beautiful part of weightlifting is you can tone and sculpt your body without having to put on tons of weight. you won't look jacked unless you eat big and lift heavy for years. if you get strong enough to lift your body weight, you will still be able to have a more feminine physique.
what i am doing right now is a simple power lifting routine. i do 20x squats, all in a row without re-racking the weights. then i do either the deadlift, bench press or overhead press for 5 sets of 5 reps, followed by 1-2 assistance exercises like barbell rows, pull ups, dips, cross bench pull-overs, etc.
i squat everyday, this is the single best exercise. it will transform your body more than anything else. you will gain perfect legs and a juicy butt if you have perfect routine.
