I did bodybuilding seriously for 4 years, now I just work out for the sheer love of exercising and health, 8 years strong now, gym 6 days a week. I also train in Muay Thai and used to be a sprinter. Now I'm studying to be a doctor, so I can shed some scientific light on your question as well. For you women, its crucial that you get weight lifting in your workout for two reasons:
1.) Building muscle allows you to burn calories while you are sitting down. The more muscle you have in your body, the more it burns calories and carbohydrates on a daily basis. Weights also help define and sculpt your body and give you strength. Building muscle is an inredible way for burning fat and losing weight.
2.) Perhaps even more important than the first, and not related to weight loss. As a woman, you are cursed with an ever diminshing bone mass the closer you get to 30. Once you hit 30, your bone mass begins to decrease every year. More and more people, especially women, have to deal with osteoporosis in their later ages because they didn't do anything about it early on. Lifting weights puts stress on your bones, and in turn, your bones have to produce more osteocytes (bone cells), which increases your bone density and makes your bones stronger. If your bones are strong and dense, trust me, you'll live a much happier life, especially when you get older. I'm not saying become a female body builder, nor am I saying go and bench press 300 lbs. Light weight, high rep is great as well. So lift those weights!
Now for the cardio. Mix it up. Running everyday for 45 min is great, but your body tends to get bored and you won't see a significant change after a while. Here is my workout scheduele. Mondays I have fight training. That's a whole bunch of different cardio: running, cycling, bag punching, sprints, fighting. Tuesdays I do weights, chest and biceps. Wednesdays are the same as Mondays. Thursdays I'm back to weights doing triceps and shoulders. Friday is a cardio day, and I do sprints at the track, with a couple of miles and then go to the gym for some cycling. Sundays I do weights again, legs and back. Saturdays are my days off from the gym. So either mix up your entire workout regimen or mix up your cardio days. Run a mile then do sprints for a bit. Run another mile and do some more sprints. This is called interval training. Or you can run a couple of miles and then bike a couple more. Biking is very important! Running puts stress on your knees. The circular biking motion is great for your knees and burns a lot of fat off of your legs as well.
Don't hesitate to throw in other forms of cardio: swimming is incredible and you'll be surprised how much punching a bag will get your heart rate up.
As for your diet. I personally only eat chicken and fish for meat. Stay away from red meat as much as you can. Limit carbohydrates as well unless you end up doing gym 6 days a week and have a crazy studying scheduele. LOTS of veges and stay away from sugar! Hope this helps
It's hard to tell. I don't know you, I don't know how fast you run, etc, which could have small influences on weight.
What would you eat, how much would you eat, etc? Do you retain water weight? Are you measuring around... certain days...? Are you taking medication like hormones? I realized that I keep some weight (I think) due to taking medication (mild steroid medications). What are your genetics? Do you get discouraged easily? Are you giving up foods? Are you easily stressed or in a stressful part of life? All of these can be a big factor.
I would say that on average, it's too much if you're losing more than two pounds a week (unless you are obese (which it doesn't sound like you are). If you start small and figure a pound a week, on average, you could be 20 pounds lighter anywhere from July 2nd to September 17th 2012, assuming you started next Monday, measured each Monday). Of course, women, even speaking on average, could hit major plateaus depending on a lot of things.
It's good to start, though; don't get too discouraged. Best of luck!
You might be able to lose one pound per week.
Have you been 119 pounds before?
I ask this because sometimes we get a number stuck in our heads that sounds good but actually isn't attainable for your body.
So rather than working on changing your weight to a specific number, why not focus on changing the shape of your body?
Eat healthy, and in addition to running every day, do some kind of strength training- back,biceps, triceps, shoulders, chest and legs (broken up over the period of 5 days). Try working on throwing in some sprints when you run but also do high intensity cardio multiple times per week.
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We don't know your determination or exactly how realistic this "ideal" weight of yours really is. Seems a bit light but I'm not you.
A healthy pace is about 1lb/week. So about 5 months. That pound is going to get harder and harder to lose as the weeks go on. You'll find that the work required to maintain that "ideal weight" isn't ideal at all.
Take it slow. Any fast weight loss from some gimmick diet will come back just as fast. Don't put any time constraints on it, if you make healthier lifestyle choices the results will come. And whatever you do: don't lose those curves! :)
Nobody can tell it.
It depends of your metabolism and genetics.
If you got tendency to be skinny, your workouts will give results faster.
If you got tendency to be fat, it will be more tedious and slower.
A healthy weight loss is 1lb per week.
5 months.
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