Any tips or advice for my current routine?
So basically, for the past several months now I have ballooned up quite a bit over the holidays and a bit from the summer of 2025. Really slacked on my light exercises and gained way too much weight. So I'm trying to get back to the weight I was and we'll say my goal right now is to get to 145/150 lbs from 180 lbs. So, I'm working out again and going on a calorie deficit. I am a woman standing at 5'7. I want to get that skinny and summer ready body back and would like some tips on what I could be doing different or eating different which I'll go into detail about some more:
So I have an odd schedule with a job that lets me work whenever I want and since I feel more at peace at night time I'm usually awake during that time. I'll eat a nice dinner a few hours after I wake up and then basically eat a second meal or snack later on in the late night hours. The majority of things are home cooked meals or things you can defrost from the store and my portions are decent sized but not enough that I would be overeating. And the second meals are less effort like scrambled eggs with some seasoning on it, a salad with low fat ranch, sliced carrots, and zero fat cheese, to something as simple as reduced fat triscuits with low fat cottage cheese. I've cut out sugar as much as I can, but I will occasionally have a cookie from a brand name that escapes me but it's low in sugar and 60 calories for one. Definitely open for more suggestions or constructive advice.
As for working out currently, my favorite thing to do right now is use my stationary bike for about 25-50 minutes with various resistance ranging from 4 to the max of 15. If I only go 25 minutes, I'll grab my portable treadmill and walk for another 20-25 minutes at decent walking speed for about a mile (100 calories worth) with a level 2 incline. After one or both of these, I follow up with 20 leg raises and sit ups. I typically do these everyday since I have a decent amount of free time and access to streaming services. Also super open to suggestions or advice, but keep in mind due to the nature of my schedule going to a gym straight up at night is outside of my comfort zone right now so doing at home exercises are just easier.