Cardio in the morning before you eat. Do it everyday. You don't need to take days off from cardio like you do with weight lifting.
Mix that with eating right. Eat anytime you are hungry, don't listen to the people who are saying eat less or don't eat after 7pm. All you have to do is make sure what you are eating is low fat, sugarless, and high protein.
If you're the type of person that eats for pleasure you have to break yourself out of that. Eat for fuel, not for pleasure. What this means is that you don't focus on satisfaction or savoring your food. By doing that I was able to drop 10lbs and become pretty ripped. All I ate / drank for a month was:
Scrambled Eggs
Tuna (I prefer Albacore)
Chicken Breast with all fat cut off
Brown Mustard
Hot Sauce
Low Sodium Wraps
Lots of Water
Skim Milk + Protein Power
Don't do the self-reward crap. Some people think a week of working out and eating right and they deserve to go out to a restaurant. If you do that you just set yourself up for failure because you have to get out of the mindset of eating for satisfaction.
Its not easy, but you have to get hardcore about it. Once you get to the weight / look you want then you can ease up on the diet, but increase the cardio and start doing weight lifting. By that time your metabolism will be in overdrive and you can afford to eat a little less healthy, but just stay active.
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