re: Help me lose 10-15 pounds

Saw a joke/meme on the facebook the other day. It said if your dog needed to lose weight, you would feed it less and take it for more walks. If your hamster needed to lose weight, you would cut back its food and try to get it run on the wheel more. If your child needed to lose weight, you would feed them less and encourage them to run around and play outside more. But if you need to lose weight you buy some horseshite fat burning pills, appetite suppressants, and green energy drinks, and expect it to work.

There is no magic pill to do it the right way. Supplements are fine, but you still need to move more and eat less. Walking is underrated. I try to take at least a 15 minute walk at work every day. I'll walk from one end of the building to the other and make laps until my watch alerts me that I'm doing an indoor walk, which on the apple watch happens after 15 minutes of continuous movement. Do that around 10 am if I can, and do my normal workouts at night.

Another good thing to do is set a goal not based on the scale. I forget if it was on this forum or on a facebook group I'm a member of, but someone said focus on the weight you can lift, not the weight on the scale, and see how much better you feel. And it is true. I was over 190 lbs, went on a restrictive diet, lost a ton of weight, but felt weak. I got down to 155 or so. Now I'm back around 175-180, but the pants and shirts I bought when I was skinnier still fit and I can lift a decent amount for a short guy in his early 40s. I do 3-4 Peloton rides a week, anywhere from 45 minutes up to 75-90 minutes. My weight has remained the same for the last 6 months, but I keep increasing my wattage and how long I can ride. Neither of those things show up on the scale.