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Thank you everyone for the comments 👍🏻

Thanks for that, you seem to understand where I’m coming from, as I thought around 2000 calories would be appropriate for a slow loss. The exercise is spread into two sessions also - 35 mins in the morning & around an hour in the afternoon.

Yes, trial & error is what I’ve been doing. Long term change is hard to adjust to. Up til recently I’d been hoping for a quick fix *sigh*

Age 46, female, 171cm. I only want to lose around 5kg or so, I’m what you’d probably call “skinnyfat”. I’m looking at concentrating on strength training to reach my goals as opposed to mainly cardio which is what I’ve been doing. 600 calories is measured via HRM on my Garmin.

Oh wow, you are amazing to be so active - I can’t believe you walk 12k every day & have done this for 1000 days, that’s incredible!

Thanks so much for your reply - this was sooo helpful & you’ve addressed all of my concerns. When I previously belonged to a gym I was taught the proper form for lifting, which I still remember. I’ll be doing this at home now though & I’m just not sure where to start. I have various equipment (barbells, dumbbells, medicine…

Thanks for sharing this - I’m in my 40s too which I’m sure makes a huge difference.

Thanks so much for addressing all of my questions, this is very helpful.

I’ve found these posts to be a big help, thank you everyone, & I’ve done some research. If I was to recomp, do I still keep up the running? My scales say I have 25% body fat so would cardio get this number lower? How often should I do weights & how long a session? I always thought low weight with high reps was the way to…

I think you’re spot on, thank you.

Thanks for letting me know your calories, that’s very insightful. I get sooo hungry all the time! Your comment about bingeing is exactly me.

Oh that’s interesting that we’re the same weight & height! May I ask how old you are? I’m aiming at 56kg, which I’ve worked out is the same as your goal. My average calorie burn is 700 also. What exercise do you do? I appreciate your two cents worth 😊

My calorie logging will be spot on for, say, 3 weeks with no extras not accounted for (that’s with weighing everything too). Then I might binge for, say, 3 days so don’t log that. I’m going to be better with those “lost” days now though. I also add all my recipes in from scratch (very time consuming!). Well done for doing…

The lower calories are driving me crazy & not sustainable at all - I’m always so hungry!

Thanks for your comments. I’ve downloaded those apps so it will be interesting to track things. I like the 5/7 idea. What do you find to be a good amount to reduce your calories & then increase them? I’ll get onto recording the binges when they happen 😱

Thanks for that but what is “recomp”?

I just want to say thank you for the replies, I appreciate them all. I know it’s not a lot of weight I want to lose, so many people probably don’t understand it. I just want to fit back into my too small clothes comfortably though, that’s all. Trying to fit the exercise in around a family & work commitments is very…

I’m in my 40s too, which makes me old as well 🙄 & maybe that’s why it’s so much harder. Maybe I should be happy where I’m at, but really all I want is to fit into clothes that were comfortable just a couple of years ago.

Oh I haven’t heard of happy scale so will look into that. I didn’t realise measurements could fluctuate so much so that’s interesting to know. I’m not sure if opening my diary would be helpful actually as I only record the good stuff - when things are bad I don’t want to see it in writing lol! Do you think I should…

Thank you but what does “recomp” mean?

You seem to understand exactly where I’m at - thank you 😊

I measure monthly & weigh weekly. No, I don’t log binges. Over the last 3 months though I’ve been very good with this issue & have managed to reset & move on each time. Previously binges would lead to a downward spiral of weeks or months. I’ve gained around 1kg over the last month & measurements have increased back to what…

No, I’m not eating back my exercise calories. I’m calculating the calories burned using my Garmin with heart rate monitor. The squats were just body weight, though sometimes weighted if doing body pump or the like. My 13 y/o daughter & I are trying to do various challenges each month as she enjoys the challenge (me not so…

Thanks for your reply RunForPizza88 & the pep talk 😊 I’m 171cm tall & weigh 61.4kg, which I’ve just googled comes to 5 ft 7 & 135 lbs. I only weigh first thing in the morning. I weigh absolutely everything I eat & there’s no fudging on my calorie calculations. Over the last 3 months I’ve fallen off the wagon a couple of…