Is 20 minutes on a stationary bike, every day, enough to lose 2-3lbs a week?

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Sounds like you have a good handle on things. Exercise and a healthy diet--good job, that should do it.

If you eat a healthy diet along with the exercise, yes you should be able to accomplish this goal. One thing that you might know or not is that to get the best effect from your exercise, you need to know your maximum heart rate and then maintain 80% of that for the 20 minutes. To calculate you maximum heart rate use this formula: HRmax = 220 - age.To get the 80% you multiply the result of this formula by .8This is a safe way to get your max rate, it is generic and therefore when you get this result you use 80% of that as a sustained rate during your exercise.

You can also measure your resting heart rate and that will give you an idea where you are now and if you check this weekly you can track your relative changes over time. Most healthy adults will have a resting heart rate of 60-80 BPM (Beats per Minute). Mine was 50 -55 when I was bicycling 60 miles a day over a 2000 foot mountain pass.

I hope this helps, Mark.

1st, CONGRATULATIONS! Marriage is a wonderful union between two people :)I'm very sorry about the anxiety and neck pain, keep your chin up and stay positive. The human body is amazing and changes a lot.

From my experience, workouts need to differ, keeping the same routine won't challenge your muscles, nor push them to burn fat, (muscles burn fat). Restricting your calories intake is one thing, but burning them off is another. What works is variety, and as you already know, fruits, vegetables, and fish may work best with a workout routine.

Are you able to do yoga? How about pilates? Remember to incorporate light weight lifting as well (5lbs, 8lbs) as well, losing weight by doing cardio alone won't tone you up,(I'm sure you want to tone up as well).

I don't believe in scales, as a matter a fact, I never use them, because a number is just that! You should go by how you feel and look in the clothes you wish to wear. Maybe one night you can do the stationary bike, another night a brisk walk with your husband to be, the following night yoga, and the one after that pilates?

Variety is key, keeping your muscles guessing is what your goal should be, this way they don't get used to the same thing. I hope this helped you a little. Congratulations again!

You will get results, but I'm not sure about how good of results. Cardio coupled with healthy eating is definitely the best way to lose weight, but doing the same exercise for two months will train your body for that one thing. You need to change it up a bit, if possible.

Try swimming, running, and stair stepping in there. And if you eat less than 1500 calories a day, you're almost guaranteed to lose the weight because the body needs at least that much on a daily basis. And you could probably spend 20 minutes doing much more effective workouts without weights than the bike ride each day.

For exercise to slim down calories, you will require to do more than 20 minutes. 20 minutes is the set point for warm-up and thereafter, it will be breaking down of fats and calories to burn. So, if you do 30 minutes, that means you have done 10 minutes of fats and calories burning.

For beginner, I always recommend 30 minutes and gradually increase to 40 minutes or 45 minutes for best effect. You should be able to see result after 3 months provided you keep your goal of doing it. I have seen many gave up after a week or so.

Surely you can achieve that target. I am happy that you used the words "want to slim down. " It is always better to slim down than trying to lose weight.

There is a difference between the two, I hope you understand that. Positive dietary changes are a must for slimming. You must substitute sprouts, salad and fruits into your diet for a positive tissue changes in muscle fibers.

That will give you a feeling of strength and a sense of well being. If you are not very averse to green tea you can try that. I have enough experience with green tea to tell you that drinking green tea helps in slimming in the long run.

You have to take 4/5 cups of that daily and you must know how to prepare green tea. I have an ezine article on "how to prepare a cup of green tea. " ezinearticles.com/?Preparing-an-Enjoyabl... lastly expect no immediate miracles.

Green tea works best with some amount of exercise and in the long run. For further information on green tea, you can try at my blog greentea-weightloss-tips.com. A last word in a lighter note, think - how you can do it, not whether you can do it.

Stay away from number crunching, you can avoid worry and de-motivation. Wish you the very best in your endeavor of slimming and "your marriage.

I think its not enough if you don't take diets. Without diet you can't loose much weight.

You should, but mix up your exercises a bit. Your body can start to adjust to your training regime if it's the same all the time. Once adjusted the body will reduce the amount of calories used to complete the exercise regime.

Neat, huh? To keep the body guessing include some high repetition/low weight exercises. 15-18 reps would be best and up to 5 sets per muscle group.

This kind of training won't build muscle, the reps are to high and weight is to low. It will keep your body guessing about your next exercise however. This will lead to more calories being burnt.

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