Reading is Dangerous! (+1#)

Ugh, I gained a pound this time.  I'm getting very frustrated with these results.  They're so inconsistent and difficult to predict.  Is that typical?  I don't know. . .I have no frame of reference here.  I do know that I want to move this faster.  I don't know if that's possible or safe though.  Mostly, I just want to be aggressive about this thing.

So with this really slow progress, i've taken to doing some reading in order to optimize things.  I'm here to tell you, there's a lot of information out there and no way of knowing what's right.  I think the only thing I can really do is look around at a bunch of things and try to sort out common themes and act on that.  I mean, everyone has a slant on any given topic.  Maybe somebody prefers faster intervals for a lesser duration or another guy prefers slower intervals for longer durations.  The key fact here is that both prefer intervals, right?  I can work with that, and work that into my own routine and find a way forward for myself.

The thing that really bugs me is that everyone wants to sell you something. . .and it's typically the important stuff  :-P  Like you'll go to a site that says "do circuits - it's more impactful than cardio!" and so you say ok, i'm gonna do the circuits.  So you look up a routine and it says "do X squats" and you say ok, i'm gonna do the squats.  You look up how, and it's great but then you read "make sure you do the forms right!  less weight in the right form is better than more weight in the wrong form!" and that's where they hit you.  What does the form look like?  How do I know if I'm doing it right?  Obviously I don't need cardio when I have crap like this to deal with - my heart rate goes up pretty well at this point!

So I am changing my routine for sure at this point.  So far it's been 20-30 minutes of cardio (mostly straight, boring cardio), followed by 3-4 lifting exercises of 3 15-20 rep sets targeting specific muscles and then a 10 minute cooldown on the treadmill. To be perfectly honest, my focus has been more on the cardio side and less on the lifting side, so when I let things slip, it was on the weights.  After a looooooooot of reading, it really looks like the most effective weight loss comes from a mix of High Impact Interval Training mixed with a weight circuit with the focus between the two on the weights. The idea is that the resistance training creates a longer EPOCSooooo, without further ado, here's going to be my new schedule - feel free to comment with opinions (ha ha ha).

MWF:
20 body weight squats
10 push ups
20 walking lunges
10 dumbbell rows (using 20 lbs at first - might change it?)
15 second plank
30 Jumping Jacks

TTh:
HIIT (~20 mins or I pass out; whichever happens first)

We'll give this a try for a few weeks, see if this works out better.  If nothing else, maybe it'll be a good shock to my system and kickstart the ole metabolism again.  Dovie'andi se tovya sagain.