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YES!!!! YES!!! YES!!!!!
Tomorrow is another day.
Have a successful day tomorrow all!6 -
LesIckaBod wrote: »Jan 4 - goals met (4 days out of 4!)
Tracked: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes - 30 min walk
Thinking about calories: MFP sets my calorie goal at 1275. Out of the last 7 days, I've been under that 4 times, way over once (hello new year's eve champagne!) and under 1360 for 2 days. My tracked TDEE for the week was 2180 (taking out a huge day 1 - day 2 water weight loss), but my 7-day average for calories was 1378, even including the new year's overage.
Moving forward with this challenge, I'm keeping my MFP calorie goal listed at 1275, but I'm counting myself as under calories if I'm under 1400. My spreadsheet is set up to track 2-week TDEE next week, and 3-week TDEE following that, and I'll adjust my personal calorie targets as needed based on the results.
Who else here is tracking their own TDEE? (Hat tip to @craigo3154 for introducing me to this back in 2018 in the Biggest Loser challenge)
Just a little expansion on this.
TDEE is Total Daily Energy Expenditure. Calculating this is slightly different to the normal MFP CICO and requires tracking history and weight.
TDEE takes you averaged calorie history and weight and works out what your base energy requirement is without exercise.
It works on the assumption that 1 pound equates to 3500 calories. You need to take an average over at least a week as weight fluctuates per day based on water retention.
As you are tracking calories and exercise and weight you can work out TDEE average without exercise through a simple formula.
TDEE gives you a closer estimate to a true metabolic burn rate (without additional tracked exercise) than the usual MFP calculation as is is based off YOUR history, not average tables.
The only way to get a TRUE burn rate is in a laboratory (CO2MAX) or using doubly labelled water. As both are not viable options for us in the real world, TDEE based of history of tracking, weight and exercise estimation is about the best we can do.
I used this method when losing weight at my fastest to ensure that I did not have any long term adverse affects on my metabolism. (I dropped 50 lbs in 6 months actually had my metabolism increase to the point I was eating MORE calories per day in maintenance at 140 lbs than I was when I started at 190 lbs. This was dropping, on average, 5% of my bodyweight per month for 6 consecutive months).
For this to work you MUST be obsessive about portion sizes, weighing and measuring food. The better the accuracy of the numbers going in, the better the accuracy of the TDEE measurement as the end result.4 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 20 minutes on the recumbent bike, 3.65 miles; rowing machine 5 minutes, .77 miles
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes8 -
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Exersized-?yes
Caleries?-yes
Logged?-yes
For me,I do better when I measure what I eat.Eat consistantly.7 -
Tracked: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes - 35 minutes of swimming laps!
This is definitely motivating me to exercise! 6 -
I try and prelog in my diary. Then I adjust the actual weights when I weigh the food before serving it.
03 Jan:
20+ minutes exercise: Yes. 50 active minutes
Under calorie goal: Yes
Tracked? Yes
04 Jan:
20+ minutes exercise: Yes. 86 active minutes
Under calorie goal: Yes
Tracked? Yes
Pass days used = 0️⃣7 -
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? yes Ran - Resolution 10K - not the fastest but better than I expected
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes just under
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes
Pass used 1/3 (on 1/1)7 -
Tracking: Yes
Calories: under
Exercise: Yes
Water - more than yesterday but still not enough
Goals/Day/Comments: flight tomorrow. Made my breakfast to take with me. My plan is to walk into little store with my eyes closed and buy water only. The flight is less than 4 hours so not bad.
Weighing: since I travel so much, I have to estimate calories. So when I’m home, I weigh everything. That way I’m at least accurate at home. When I wasn’t weighing, I’d estimate. Take nuts for example. I’d estimate them and put them in a bowl. But then I’d reach into the bag and pop a few in my mouth. My rule now is that I can pop it in my mouth only from the portion on the scale.7 -
Exercise: Yes 30 minute spin.
Tracking: Yes
Under calorie goal: Yes, but it was a bit of a struggle. I had a high call muffin at lunch because hubby made them, but it threw me off and left me hungry. Chinese takeout for dinner means my sodium is through the roof. I will likely show a gain tomorrow.6 -
2nd, 3rd, 4th Jan
Tracked yes
Under yes
Exercise yes5 -
Exercise: Yes, 90 minutes walking in the fog in the nearby national park (a warm 54 F -- it's usually much colder)
Tracking: logged everything
Under calorie goal: Yes, a couple hundred under. I bring all my food for work, a meal and snacks, but walked out and left my salad in the fridge.
I bought one at Panera that had more calories but still came under. 7 -
Exercise? Yes. I did 2 hot yoga classes with some extra Yin yoga in between. I got almost 3hrs in today
Calories? Yep. Did not eat back exercise calories & well under
Tracked: yep.6 -
Exercise? 40 min light circuit
Track? Yes
Calories? Under
Finished 66 hour fast and ate in afternoon.
Have a great Sunday!3 -
January 4
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Felling a lot better, lots of chopping and cooking for my weekly food prep
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? No
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? No3 -
Daily Post date: Saturday 1/4
Exercise: Yes I worked out in my home gym. Stationary bike 20 minutes, elliptical 5 minutes, bike 5 minutes punching bag 10 minutes Kickboxing 10 minutes total 50 minutes
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes
My goal for today was to push myself to workout longer and to work on my diet which is a big problem. I tend to get snacky so I needed to keep track of what I ate.3 -
Logged tracked went to gym rowing machine and treadmill well over my 20 minutes.
I will weigh out some foods and others are usually a accurate estimation as I have weighed and measured for along time now it’s not prefect but neither and I and it works for me3 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes - went with the Wii plus fit today fun with the kids
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes with calories and now someone is telling me i'm supposed to stay below 20 carbs so its a good thing i didn't track those with having homemade bean and ham bone soup.
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? drinking the last cups as i'm writing this.4 -
Exercise? Yes - 22 minutes of slow walking - still recovering from the flu
Under Calories? Yes
Tracked? Yes5 -
Exercise? Yes, 30 minutes on the elliptical
Under budget? Yes
Tracked everything? Yes3 -
Exercised? Yeppers! 20 min yoga* (23 if you count savasana). Had a headache most of the day, so didn't walk. Just 5k steps.
*We subscribed to the Down Dog app a couple days ago when they offered a $20/year deal. Now that I spent money on it, I am much more likely to do yoga twice a week.
Within my calorie goal? Ja.
Tracked everything? Of course!
I try to balance weighing food accurately without going down an OCD rabbit hole (a risk for me).
I don't weigh items that are labeled and portioned (slice of bread, single serving frozen meal, individually wrapped candy, etc). I have checked a few after reading comments on the forum about inaccuracies, but I have found my products to be super close to stated weights.
I weigh just about everything else in grams, including when making a recipe. Although, I'm a little casual about low cal veggies when I am hurrying.
However, if I do a recipe that has 3 servings, I just eyeball when I dish up. My thinking is that even if I weighed out the final product, each serving will still vary because one might have more potatoes or more sauce or more beans and so on. I figure it all balances out even over time.
When we eat out (usually once a week), I go with the restaurant's nutrition info or calculator, or I do my best estimate if no calories are available. I generally get food cooked simply due to GERD, so it's not too hard to estimate.4
