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my current weight is 65kgs.my weight goal is 50kgs.but i want to lose atleast 1kg every week.how much calories i need to burn per day in order to lose 1kg in one week.please help me.also i am controlling my diet as well as cycling.i burn around 290 calories everyday.how much more do i need to burn to reach weight loss of 1kg in 7 days.please help me.i' m planning to have baby after my weight loss.please suggest so that i can successfully llose weight and start trying.
thanks
soumya sandya replied. Khushi,
Changing only one thing!!...make your husband read my message....Good one...LOL. But remember i started my schedule when my baby was barely 4 months old. I used to pump my milk too 3 times at work and still managed this very gruelling shchedule( i breastfed my daughter for an year)....there were really moments when i really wanted to quit going to workout and rest...but i never gave up.

I was barely a month out of pregnancy when my in-laws who were here for my delivery got on my case for me to lose the weight. I told them very clearly to back off and that i will do it on my own schedule. It was hard but i knew what needed to be done. My husband has been very-very supportive of my goals which i truly-truly appreciate.

One thing i' ve learnt after 2 kids is that i cannot do it all by myself, so now i enlist all the support i can get. Not everybody can work in your style or with as much energy and we women have to accept this part. You need to delegate work according to the skill set of the person who is helping you out. We do this all the time at work, so we should do it more at home. I' am sure you have a MIL who is maybe above 60. She can take care of your crying kid, cut vegetables, sort the groceries etc.. See i take help even from my son. My kids make a lot of mess with all the toys strewn all over my place by the time it is for us to go to bed. So, i tell my son that he needs to put all the toys away before he can go to bed. I don' t help him at all, but wait for him to finish. I don' t carry his plates or cups for him, he does that himself. We mothers don' t have to become victims by trying to do it all by ourselves. We are not superwomen. We need to know our limitations in the energy dept. And we also need to stop feeling guilty for not being able to do it all by ourselves.

I tries being the victim and doing it all by myself with my first one, but you know what, it' s not worth it. Now i' am much more happy and peaceful when i was doing it all by myself. Now i feel all my family members are more involved in each others lives when we share responsibilities. So, delegate the work and conquer the home. You have the power to make it happen. It' s no rocket science. If i can do it anyone in this world can make it happen.

Again it was really nice talking to you. Good luck. sandya replied. Khushi,
Well, for most part what you said is really true. I really wish there were 48 hrs in a day, so i can squeeze in all the things that i need to do for my family. But you know what, it ain' t gonna happen. So, we got to make the best use of what we got which is 24 hrs.

Alright, let' s see how i manage things. I cook everyday, have 2 kids ages 4 and 2. Don' t have any maids, so i do all the housework by myself. But and trust me this makes all the difference in the world, i have a grrrrrreat husband. He has his quirks like giving jhoota, not very clean or not caring enough when kids get hurt. But you know what, i' ve learned to live with it. When there is no choice, then you' ve got to make the best of what you have. I follow this to the core.

My day begins at 5:00AM. I make breakfast and lunch for the kids in the morning. Nothing fancy but rotis or puris etc..My daughter can' t do everything on her own, but i don' t take that long to her her ready. Barely 10 mints. I brush her teeth around 5:00AM and feed her milk while she is half asleep. She drinks better with no distractions. So, when she is awake then all i need to do is change her diaper, clean her face(no bath in the morning), apply cream and change her clothes. Get her sox, shoes and jacket on and she is ready to go. I feed her breakfast in the car which she takes to her day care also and finishes it there.

My son who is 4 is very independent in many ways. But makes a big fuss to wake up in the morning...so, i basically put up with all his nakhras in the morning. Maybe for about 10 mints until he is awake. We go down and microwave his milk and make him sit in front of TV until he is done with his milk. While he is doing that i get the breakfast and lunch ready for the kids. Empty the dishwasher, pack my lunch, wash the veggies and pack my salad. All this takes exactly 15-20 mints. My son wakes around 7:30AM...his getting ready takes 10 mints. another 20 for everything else and another 5 for my daughter. You do the math. The time now will be 8:10AM and all of us are out the door and in the car by 8:12AM. Time is very critical by this time since my son' s curb side closes by 8:30AM and the time to travel between my home and school is 17 mints(exactly). Drop my son by 8:30 and then drop my daughter(another 15 mints) and i' am here at work by 9:15AM.

Now i' am here at work until 4:30PM ( I cover the hours by working on the weekends since i get to work from home). At gym by 5:00PM...40 mints of cardio, 10 mints of weights(every alternate day) and another half hour of yoga. All done and the time now is 6:30PM...another 10 mints to home and by the time i reach home, my kids and my dear hubby always greet me with a smile. They are clean, with their baths all done. I don' t care for the rest of the house(usually it is in shambles)..start cooking right away, so the kids don' t have to wait until after 7:30- 8:00PM to eat food. Kids are usually done by 8:30PM, we eat our dinner and in bed by 9:30PM. All done.

My husband does grocery shopping for me since it is on his way back after picking up the kids. Its entertainment for the kids too. My husband goes to work very early(at 6:00AM - 4:00PM), so he picks up the kids.

The downside to this is that i get to see the crying, fussy faces while he gets to see the laughing, smiley faces. But kya karen. Remember we gotto make the best of what we got.

I do all the clean up(home, bathrooms) on the weekends. My son has started to help me out with dusting the place :):)...and i love him very much for helping me out. My husband takes care of all the work outside which is yards, plumbing, electricity etc..while i manage the insides. Since we know it is only us who has to manage everything, we know that we cannot complain if we don' t chip in our share. My husband understands this very well.

So, see what i mean by saying that if you want to be healthy then you need the cooperation from your entire family. And also remember, if the woman of the house falls sick or is not healthy then the house won' t run and there is no one, absolutely no one to help the woman. So, we really need to be in good health and shape to survive.

The reason why i wake up at 5:00AM is to read for an hour. I love this and this is my personal time from all the shor-sharaba. My gym, my reading and my family are the passions of my life. I keep my priorities straight and keep working towards my goals.

I don' t watch any TV and neither do i miss it. All i know is one day when i retire, i' ll have a hell a lot of catching up to do and with all the re-runs i know i' am not going to miss a thing :):)

so, that' s the raam kahani of my life. Hope it helps you in some way. Be happy. Good luck. sandya replied. alright, brisk walking of 20mints/2 miles burns 200 cal. running will bump it up to another 100 cal for the same amt of time. If you visit a gym then the display panel on your cardio equipment will tell you how many cal you are burning.

Weight bearing exercises burn more calories but you build muscle by these exercises. Won' t lose weight much. So, really the ideal way to lose weight is to do cardio. Once you' ve lost all the weight that you want to, then you can switch to weight bearing exercises to tone up. Or you can combine them together if you have enough time in a day. Hope this helps. sandya replied. Sowmya, to loose weight you need to burn more than you eat. So, start counting as to how much you are eating everyday. 3500 calories makes a pound and 2.2 lbs is one KG. So, do the math. Burning 290 cal a day is nothing. If you really want to see any significant results then start burning 800 to 1000 cal a day. OH! also losing more than a pound a week is not recommended. Loosing a KG a week means the faster you loose, the faster you' ll gain it all back. Not good. Aim for moderation. Good luck.