STS - Advice Please (UK Newbie)

Lyns180
Lyns180 Posts: 49 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi all,

My name is Lynsey, I'm from Glasgow, Scotland and I signed up to MFP last week.

I was a bit unsure of my activity level and opted for lightly active (desk job, walk the dog 30-40mins a day and have recently started a boxercise class on a Thursday night). This gave me a calorie intake of 1650 per day (with the aim of losing 1.5lbs per week). I stuck to this more or less, the weekly average was just under, yet when I weighed myself this morning I had stayed the same?! To say I was disheartened is an understatement.

I've now changed my activity level to sedentary, which gives me a calorie intake of 1470. Do you think if I stick to this, I will have a loss next Monday??

My details are as follows:

Female
Aged 27
5ft 3"
236.5lbs

I log my dog walking and boxercise activity but that's it. Most days I think I have eaten back my exercise calories.

I know my diet isn't the best and has a long way to go to be considered 'good' or 'healthy' but it's a lot lot better than it used to be, I have cut down my fizzy juice intake to a maximum of one can per day (I was a serious pepsi max addict) and am trying to cut out all other sweetener from my diet after reading all these scary articles about aspartame etc. But I am trying to change things gradually as I know if I try and do it all at once and go cold turkey on things I'll just end up caving in and bingeing on things. I don't want this to be a diet, I want it to be a change of lifestyle.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated :)

Lyns x

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  • Lyns180
    Lyns180 Posts: 49 Member
    Also, on a Thursday, I'm earning/burning a lot of extra calories from the boxercise. Do I need to eat back those calories that day or is it okay to use some of them for the weekend??
  • Kayleighkaykay
    Kayleighkaykay Posts: 5 Member
    Hi Lyns,

    Have you been weighing and measuring everything? Estimating can be a major downfall. Also, I find mfp over calculates exercise calories so personally I don't eat back exercise calories based on their calculations.

    Maybe try not eating back your exercise calories this week? Just use them as a 'bonus'. That's how I think of them. I think of my 'diet' as my healthy food choices to lose weight and my 'exercise' as my healthy lifestyle choices to help me get fit.

    Feel free to add me. I'm uk too, Newcastle :)
  • Lyns180
    Lyns180 Posts: 49 Member
    Thanks :)

    I've synced my RunKeeper and MFP so its working out the actual time/speed I've walked. But yeh I think it might be an idea to try not to use all of the exercise calories.

    I'd say about 90% of the stuff is correctly weighed/measured. I was out for dinner with my sisters on Friday night to a local restaurant so calories were very much guesstimated. Maybe that's where I went wrong, who knows?! Hopefully next week will show a better result!!
  • Kayleighkaykay
    Kayleighkaykay Posts: 5 Member
    You should be fine for one meal though! Maybe it's just your salt intake and so next week you'll see a loss cos you're retaining water? It could be a multitude of things unfortunately!
  • Lyns180
    Lyns180 Posts: 49 Member
    Yeah true, all trial and error I guess. Will just try to keep sticking to calories and exercising and surely i'll see a good result soon enough :-)

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