I am eating 1200 calories per day, and then doing 2 hours of cardio to burn at least 500 calories.
how many weeks should it take before I can SEE results (not on the scale, but on my body?)
I am only 4′11" and 98 pounds, so I don’t need to eat as much as bigger people
thanks Vincent, thats the exact staregy I use- my BMI is 1200, so I subtract 500 each day and it should equal a pound per week lost.
In two or three months, you’ll see the results when your clothes are too big and baggy!
Each pound of fat reserves is 3,500 calories.
You would lose one pound of fat reserves every week.
But then you would (hopefully) gain some muscle mass.
You need to do some weight training, not just cardios.
Cardios would just burn some fat reserves but weight training would really built muscle mass for a higher metabolism.
Muscle mass takes 3 times less space than fat reserves, so you get thinner.
After about three months, you would have lost a few pounds of fat reserves (aerobics) and gained a few pounds of muscle mass (weight training) so you could be the same weight but at least one size smaller (like one inch off all your measurements).
I actually did that, a few years ago. I went from 122.6 to 122.6 (haha) in three months with about 18 weight training sessions and some aerobics, no diet or counting my calories intake, I ate whatever I wanted (otherwise I would have lost much more) and still lost one inch on all my measurements, got thinner and lost 2% of my body fat percentage.