| Liza, I can share with you my experience, maybe you will find it helpful. I'm a guy. That year my girlfriend broke with me. Maybe because of that I've decided to lose around 30lbs in three summer months, maybe to get more attractive, I don't know :-) This is what I did:
- I did weights only once a week. On that day I did only weights, whole-body workout made of only compound free-weights exercises, no cardio.
- I did cardio in the gym on other 4-5 days a week. My goal was 60-90 minutes of non-stop cardio. I've started from 30 minutes a day and gradually increased the time to 90 minutes in 3 months. I did 1/2 time tredmill and 1/2 time elliptilals. For example I would do 20 minutes of tredmils than 20 minutes ellipticals right away. My thoughts were that longer time works better than high intensity, so I used rather low intesity to survive my target time.
- I took any change to walk.
- I eat less than normal and always felt a little hungry. I did not count calories, just stopped eating when I felt that I will not be hungry if I eat a little more.
- I drank gallons of water.
Well, that worked for me.  | 
