Buddies Required!!! Lose a kg a month - 2016

Vibha... Great going with cycling!

Sandy.. Take care.. Hope your family gets back to normal soon..

 

Hi does zumbe help in weight loss..? Which is better one hour gyming or 1 hour zumba?

 

8/8

Breakfast - Whole wheat bread with ICBINB and half spoon jelly
Snack - Green tea, nuts, fruits
Lunch - Channa pasta
Snack - Biscotti, corn, baked pita chips
Dinner - Rasam rice

30 mins walk

 

Hi ranirm,
I have done both Zumba and gym, zumba is anytime better as there is a tendency of boredom with gym.

 

8/9:

Breakfast - Tea with no sugar, Cereal with fat free milk
Snack - Nuts, green tea, banana
Lunch - chapathi with mixed veg curry
Snack - Green tea, cup cake and macaroon
Dinner - Tea with no sugar, adai with sambar and chutney

Exercise - 30 mins walk

 

8/11:

Breakfast - Carrot juice with brown bread (ICBINB & Grape jelly 1/2 spoon each)
Snack - Green tea
Lunch - Yumm bowl (lentil soup, chicken, brown rice)
Snack - dark chocolate, handful of baked pita chips
Dinner - Kuzhi paniyaram, 1 dosa with sambar and chutney

Exercise: 30 min walk

 

8/11:

Breakfast - Burger, Tea
Snack - Green tea, Nuts, banana
Lunch - Whole wheat noodles with veggies, baked pita chips with hummus
Snack - 2 small Biscotti, 1/4 adhirasam
Dinner - Egg kothu parotta with raitha

Exercise: 40 min walk

 

Depends on what you do in the gym and how good the Zumba instructor is

In the beginning with Zumba you might burn 500-800 calories per hour (I burned 800 in my first class; used Heart rate monitor; depends on the instructor again and your weight/ht stuff; the less your weight the less you burn in any exercise). After a while it will come down as you get used to it.

If you do cross trainer in the gym you might get slightly less than that (Don't go by the numbers on the machine unless you are using the heart rate input too else they show more than what you are actually burning). If you run for one hour, you burn more calories.

My answer would be keep changing your exercise and instructors to get the most of out of the 1 hour..For most of us any group class will force us to continuously move thus expending more calories whereas on our own in the gym, it takes lot of discipline to make the most of the one hour

 

08/08 Exercise - Nil
08/09 Exercise - 15 min treadmill (5 min run), 30 min cross trainer, 15 min lower body workout
08/10 Exercise - 25 min treadmill (10 min run), 30 min cross trainer, 10 min upper body workout
08/11 & 08/12 - out of station; bad food too

I have monthly time now..will try to do some walking atleast

 

8/15

Breakfast - Half cup tea, Boiled egg, Health mix Porridge and banana
Snack - Green tea, almonds
Lunch - Chapathi, hummus, pickle and curd
Snack - Apple, Flax seed almond bar
Dinner - Chapathi with black eyed peas curry

Exercise - 20 mins walk and 5 mins stair climbing