Hi Mandy. Thanks for answering my questions. I also looked at your last Journal ( I did not read the entire thing, so if you mentioned something there that addresses some of the things I am going to talk about, please bring it up).
Here are my thoughts:
-The workouts. I obviously cannot see how you actually look, but in our last Journal, you had said you were concerned that your legs were getting too big and also in the past you had trained them with pretty heavy weights. This leg workout you just posted doesn't look bad in that context, but I would like to see it be a bit more challenging than doing 20 rep squats with no weight on the bar. But I will get back to this.
- Now the upper body. Genetically, you may be inclined to carry more size in the lower body, like a lot of women, and have relatively narrower shoulders ( again, I cannot see you, so tell me if I am wrong on this). If that is the case, then if you think you can spot reduce the lower body through training and cardio, you may be mistaken. If you lose weight and size, it will most likely come from all over and if you are say 10 pounds lighter, you will still have the same "big lower body small upper body" figure, just a smaller version of the same physique and you will not look any better. So what is the better solution? Train the upper body...the back, the shoulders and the chest area.... hard so that it grows and thus proportionately makes the lower body look smaller in comparison. This is where I think your weight training program needs to improve. If say you increase the width of your shoulders and upper back by 2 inches and reduce your waist by one inch, the visual effect is that your waist LOOKS 3 inches smaller. Wouldn't that be alot easier to accomplish than trying to reduce the waist only by 3 inches, especially if your body genetically does not want to do that?
-Are you doing "very light" weights on the bench press because you are too weak to lift a heavier weight or because you are not challenging yourself as hard as you should?
- You need to also do more work for the back and shoulders, add more weight and reduce the reps to say 10, where the last couple of reps on your last set are challenging.
- Now on cardio. You are doing a lot of it and this may be exaggerating this "upper body lower body" thing. Your cardio probably involves much leg movement and this may have the affect of making your legs bigger and more densely muscled than you may want them to be and worsening the proportionate problem you may have. I'm a guy and genetically I like to say I have "women's genetics" in that my legs grow if I just look at them and I have to work much harder to make my upper body grow. Whenever I do a lot of cardio, which is only a couple of times a year, my legs start to grow like tree trunks even if I am just walking on a treadmill. So you may want to think about whether this is an issue in your case. I think you should reduce the cardio for this and other reasons and I will also get back to that.
- The diet. For someone of your size and even for the weight of 130 that you want to get to, the calorie count of 1275 is way way too low. I suspect you have been on a low calorie diet for awhile, as in months? If so, it is likely that your metabolism has shut down as the body will instinctively do this as a defense mechanism to protect itself from what it feels is starvation. It also actually begins to RETAIN fat. This has probably hindered your weight loss efforts in recent months and may make it next to impossible to achieve the goal you are shooting for in the time period you want.
Here is a very good method for estimating your daily maintenance level of calories put out by the ISSA. This is a good starting point, though one's actual can vary based on their individual metabolic rates and activity levels.
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/issa64.htm
At 155 and using an activity multiplier of 155% ( you work out several days a week), I get your maintenance caloric level at 2200+ calories a day at 155 pounds. For the 130 goal you are shooting for, it is almost 1900. 1275 is way way too low.
Again, if you have been "dieting" like this for a long time and you are not losing weight, then it probably means your body has "shut down" and the solution is NOT to continue dieting or to lower the calories even further in the vain hope that you will then lose weight. The solution is to stop dieting for at least several weeks, get your calories back up to maintenance, let the body recover from the low calorie assault it has been under for a long period of time and THEN start a less drastic calorie reduction program, but for a set shorter period of time.
I am sure this is not what you want to hear, but in the long run, I think it is the best thing to do.
There are some things you can also be doing workout wise in this period and even after this in the future to rev up your metabolism. One is to increase the intensity of your workouts using compound movements ( as opposed to doing "isolation" exercises). I had talked about squats. 20 rep squats can be used to boost your metabolism. But these have to be challenging reps. Put some weight on the bar such that at 15 you start to feel fatigued and at 20 you are ready to drop. THIS will boost your heart rate and metabolism. If your gym has a hack squat machine, do 20 rep sets there too sometimes. Do these challenging movements and place less emphasis on lunges and side hip flexes.
Lastly, I think you are doing too much cardio and relying too much on it. It could also be actually burning muscle, which is totally counterproductive. If you think I am all wet on this, then answer this question: You have been doing 5 or 6 days a week of cardio for how many months and what has it done to improve your figure? If it hasn't done much, then what would make you think that doing the same thing in the future will result in a different outcome?
Hi Mandy! Good luck with the plan. You might want to post the meals in the nutrition section to get some more feedback. Just a thought. 
I've got to stop the madness!!!! 
I'm doing good on my eating habits and I started taking SAN Tight today...boy am I wound up! Anyway, I am thinking of this as a lifestyle and I am continuously improving. Thanks for the motivation!
