What Do I do now?

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veenie

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I've been eating right/exercising for about 3 months (12 weeks) now, and basically I think its time for a change.

For the past few months, I've been eating around 1500 calories a day, and doing very light strength training along with 1 hour of cardio 5 times a week.

I've lost 25 pounds and now I stand at 180lbs. However my goal is 160lbs.

I just wanted to know what else I can do now? Should I kick up my strength training a bit and do more of that along with 45 minutes of cardio 5 times a week?

Any suggestions would be beneficial and appreciated!

Some stats:
Age: 20
Weight: 180 lbs
Height: 5'9
 
Your cals seem a bit low.

Define eating right?

Why light strength training?

I'm not a fan of cardio 5x per week. I'd much rather do one or two more energy intensive bouts of cardio such as interval training, HIIT, or complexes coupled with maybe 1 session of steady state stuff. There's no right or wrong... but 5x per week is certainly not needed.
 
Hi Steve, thanks for the quick reply

I basically eat about 5 meals a day. Three meals w/2 snacks in between each meal about 3 hours apart.

I was doing light strength training earlier because I just wanted get my cardio up to a level where I could breathe while running. I'm now at the stage where I can run for a good 20-30 minutes without having difficulties breathing.
 
But what do the meals consist of?

I'd certainly start to add some *real* strength training into the mix. I highly recommend reading the recent thread I created titled "The Basic Lifts" in the "weight loss through exercise" section of the website for an idea.

And my above recommendation still stands for cardio.
 
Meals consist of:

Breakfast: Bran cereal w/milk with some fruit
Snack: Granola bar and some fruit
Lunch: Sandwich
Snack: Fruit and some yogourt
Dinner: Meat in addition to a portion of vegetables

Also, how many times would you recommend I do strength-training?
 
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