I'm tired of being squishy?

I think you have to get a real awakening. 130 pounds overweight is a sign you have a major metabolic disorder and on your way to type II diabetes. You may be pre-diabetic already with that much insulin resistance going on.

It sounds like you are in denial. You state you are not worried by your weight, but the inches. The inches are weight.

I have some unfortunately news for you - exercise will not work. You may change the shape/tone your body in some way but you will not lose weight.

Exercising is never good or successful for losing weight.

Why? For a few reasons, but the main reason is due to something called LPL enzyme, or lipoprotein lipase. These receptors are all over your body, on all of your cells. Insulin signals your LPLs to direct fatty acids into particular cells depending upon need. You have these enzymes on your muscle cells and fat cells.

When you exercise, your LPLs on your muscles are highly excited. Insulin directs the fatty acids to pour into muscle cells, removing many of the said acids from your bloodstream. This is excellent as it makes you temporarily lean.

The bad news is when you stop exercising, LPL activity on muscle cells nearly shut down completely, opening the floodgates on LPLs situated outside fat cells. The fat cells then collect these fatty acid components into triglycerides, or stored fat. Not good when you are actually trying to lose weight.

The double whammy is that when you flood fat cells with the remaining fatty acids in your blood, your body begins looking for more fatty acids and/or glucose. This is commonly why you may feel hungry after working out - so you ingest more carbohydrates - which enact an insulin response to the resulting blood glucose-spike. An in turn, insulin pushes even more fat to storage. A vicious cycle.

A lot of individuals who believe exercise is good for losing weight always condemn the science. They state that "they lost a lot of weight exercising". But ask these same individuals about their diet, and they also made other conscious decisions - normally cutting out refined carbohydrates for example. They do not attribute the diet portion to the weight loss because they lack the knowledge about their contributions to weight gain.

You do need to focus on diet overhaul and getting your body into a state of ketosis (natural fat burning). Ketosis is a natural state of the body which occurs with very low levels of glucose. Most people who are not continually in a state of ketosis are in a state of glycogenesis - they use mainly glucose for their body's fuel. However, individuals who still are in glycogenesis go into a state of ketosis during sleep due to lack of glucose in the blood.

Ketosis shifts the body away from using glucose as a fuel source. Simplistically speaking, your body's main fuel source would shift to three things: fatty acids in the blood (75%) and the remaining 25% come from glycerol (breakdown of triglycerides) and glycogen (breakdown of amino acids from dietary protein).

Losing weight on ketosis is akin to brightening a room by flipping a light switch. It is going to happen whether you want it to or not. Once your body is in a state of ketosis, your fat cells literally break down stored triglycerides into their component fatty acids for burning. This is why you lose weight.

To switch from glycogensis to ketosis, you essentially restrict your carbohydrate intake, and thus your blood-glucose levels. These levels must remain below a specific level for a number of days, perhaps as long as 1-2 weeks for some. This is generally a difficult time for some as they will continue to crave carbohydrates, get headaches, pain etc. This is sometimes referred to as "carb fever", but it is essentially keto-adapting. It is not dissimilar to an addict's withdrawal symptoms.

You can do it, and there are several methods you can employ. One of the most popular is Atkins, however I tend to think the plan's reliance on protein is not as preferable to reliance on high fat ingestion. Paleo or Primal are also great lifestyles.

Your first step should be to read the book in the source, along with reviewing the other material. You can do it but you need to step up and get it done.

powerwalking is the best low impact cardio workout u can do for total body weight loss. Atleast 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week, and u will lose weight guarenteed. And u can even do it at home, around the backyard or even around the house.

As far as food goes, diets dont work, and as u said u eat well anyway, ur good to go. Just make sure u drink atleast a litre of water a day, it really helps. And dont exclude carbs. Ur brain and body need carbs to function properly. If u want to limit carbs, exclude wheat-based carbs and consume more gluten-free carbs like rice.

I found that the easiest way to stop consuming bad foods (junk food, processed food and drink, alcohol, caffeine, preservatives, additives, flavours and sweeteners) was to actually learn what they are made from and all the nasty side effects and health risks.

I dont miss any of the nasty things i have given up over the years, and thats really important to maintaining a healthy diet.

Just remember, excercise 5 days a week is key for weight loss. And if u can buy some free weights, even just 1kg ones, u can do some light weight work for ur upper body to build some lean muscle which helps increase ur resting metabolism and burn fat.

Best of luck.

Well, Depending on the kind of resistance bands you have, you may be able to do P90X. YES it is grueling and difficult. YES it is painful for the first few weeks. and YES the nutrition plan requires alot of dedication. But for about $150 for the p90x and the 30 bucks for a pull up bar (optional if you have resistance bands and a hook on a wall) it is insanely effective. It is a 90 day program. It has a fit test on it and suggests that unfit people dont do it but i suggest doing it anyways. It requires about 60 minutes a day for 90 days. (you wont have to do your mile run anymore just p90x)

You learn kenpo karate, yoga (so hard), plyometrics (jump training (you will have trouble with it cuz of your knees but there are ways that are easy on your knees)) and so much more. I was fit before i started but my parents were not and we are on day 21 or so and my ma has lost like 6 pounds already and a couple inches off of her waist.

The nutrition plan is actually the magic ingredient to p90x. It has you eat abut 2400 calories a day for a couple weeks (that phase is called fat shredder (and yes it literally shreds fat)) and it is super specific on the types of calories you need a day. It is the most complete program ever and you will be so happy in the end. I am a fit 16 year old and never had a 6 pack before. so i decided to do this and guess what? I got an 8 pack!!! haha i strongly suggest you saving up and in the meantime just remember to spread out what you eat during the day (do not binge eat on dinner), dont eat carbs in the evening (they will be stored as fat), and try for about 2400 calories. I can go more specific if you message me on what your diet should be.

Babe. You look pretty in that little picture.