Calories needed

porffor

Ok.. I need some help / advice please.

I'm doing the 30 DS day 8 today of level 1 (bit daunted about moving up a level but thats another story).
I'm using my exercise bike at a good speed for 25 mins, with intervals of 'as fast as I can go' to get me up in stamina / speed eventually and I've gone up a resistance too.
I wasn't totally 'un fit' before, in that I had a summer of riding up till oct, but had a gap from then with just a belly dancing class from January.

Now.. my weight seemed to stall since starting Uni, been struggling to maintain loss and went up down the same few lbs.

I want to lose body fat more than scale weight but only have a regular scales at home. I weighed in on a BF scales in a pharmacist recently to get an idea - I know it's not very accurate but figured it'd show me progress in time.

Now, what should I do about my scales? I weigh daily and have done for years as a way of managing my motivation and insight into my weight - if I ignored it I'd gain.

I got down to 180 on friday but am back up at 181.5 and am finding it's annoying me now, I ate some of my calories back but not many at all. But honestly I'm one of those that if I ate them all I'd be in the gaining situation even more.

Advice welcome - I'm 40, 5'3" and came up at 43.2% BF on the scales I weighed on last week so really do need to still lose fat while gaining muscle.
MFP has me at 1200 cals if I want to lose 2lb or around 1400 for 1lb a week.
Another site I went on said 1123 for my height so confused..

Thanks.

porffor

I've just realised this is in the wrong section! Sorry - will re-post in diet. :flowerforyou: mods please move.