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Thanks AslSmile, I guess i should have been more specific with targets. What I meant was I can predict weight loss and weight gain so can set targets in relation to those. But don't know how slow or quick recomp can work. Is it possible to have a time frame to have lost 5% bf?

I have a bit of a question about the difference between recomp and cutting as part of the start of a cut/bulk cycle. I am male, 5"8 and 162lbs, 20%bf (machine measured so probably not accurate). I had initially intended to drop down to around 157lbs but I'm starting to think that I don't want to go down that far. The…

Male, sorry forgot that bit of info.

The obstacle in your relationship is a highly ungrateful husband who doesn't appear to understand the work that you must have put in to bringing up a family while he was in the army. Lose weight for yourself and ditch him.

So I have read the first post and just have a quick question, I will admit I haven't read all the replies, so sorry if this has been asked. The "are you strong" section mentions having at least 4 to 6 months of strength work as a base before looking to start bulking. I am around 162lbs, 20% BF (from scales so probably not…

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I'm guessing I'm not putting the question correctly. The use of the calculators is easy. I know how to use them and have used a number to work out an average based on the variations from them. My question is to people who have been using TDEfor a while as to what they do and how well that ties in with the standard calcs.…

I'm not treating them like gospel but to use a tool you have to understand the basic premise it is working on. The point is days of exercise is a meaningless reference point because the effort on each day can be wildly different. I would like to know fron people who have been using tdee and therefore already have data…

But what does 1 day equate to? If I do 1 hour in the gym 5 days a week but run for a total of 7 hours at the weekend is that just 7 days, even though 2 days exercise is greater then the total of 5? Or do I go by hours of excise and say I do 12 hours a week, if so what activity level does that equate to?

When using tdee is exercise based on one hour a day. As most say 3-5 day or some such. So a 3 hour training run on a Sunday is 3 days worth?

Keep logging everything you eat and stay around your calorie goal.

Really quickly, with out actually going in to your diary in detail. You only have 11lbs to lose and you have MFP set to the most aggressive weight loss amount possible, I believe 1200 calories a day in the minimum it will give. Consider setting your weight loss target to 1/2lb a week. Also make sure that you have the…

You would think this is old news but this week I was talking to a family member and said that I wasn't hitting my fat macros while training and needed more fats through nuts, full fat yoghurts, etc and she was very certain that fats were bad for me and I should be reducing them not increasing them.

open up your diary. Always best to start with that before asking for advice about what you could eat.

my most recent NSV was 2 full arm pullups in the gym after a sub 25 min 5k. So very happy with being able to do a pull up!

Using the following site and making a small conversion across to line up with MFP descriptions gives you the following: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14715035 Sedentary: Spend most of the day sitting (e.g. bank teller, desk job) <5000 steps Lightly Active: Spend a good part of the day on your feet (e.g. teacher,…

@rabbitjb My mission is to now recreate a graph like that in excel as I don't have a fitbit.

Rabbit, where are you getting that sort of tracking info from? (sorry for the derail)

2kgs, is 4.4lbs, so not far off of a 1lb a week loss. That is very good. :)

Weight loss isn't linear. Therefore sometimes you will lose, sometimes it will show a gain, sometimes it won't move at all. Keep on tracking your food and moving more and the overall trend will be weight loss.

So just plugged in my watch with the correct stats and it is showing 800 calories burned which puts me closer your numbers nick. I think I'll just go with the numbers from my watch and eat about 75%/80% and track how that goes over time and my predicted loss.

Cheers for the reply nick. Seeing your stats etc was the nudge to make me recheck mine.

Sorry, yes all runs with my ambit are done using the HRM. Having a look back through my runs the calorie burn is pretty much constant. Just checked my stats in movescount. had me @ 5'10 and 12lbs heavier. I should probably also do a full resting heart rate check again. So have corrected this and will have a look what it…

I consider myself fit. I can do a 20 mile run first thing in the morning and then after a shower and a cup of coffee spend the whole day playing and chasing my 4 y/o daughter around. If I was comparing myself to a heavy lifter, then no I can't lift what they can at the moment but that doesn't mean I'm not fit. We are "fit"…

I never bother with water for anything less than maybe 1 1/2 hours. If I'm heading out for a longer run I normally just stick on my race pack. Just because it's convenient.

Have a look at the map of your run in strava. I used that quite some time ago and was so pleased that it had my average speed at something like 12km/h. When I actually looked at the route it had logged it had me spiking all over the place. It basically added in a huge amount of extra distance for the time I had run.…

See here is your problem, just because you were running once or twice a week and also riding your bike it doesn't mean you can eat what you want. You need to eat at a deficit. If you burn 1k calories exercising and eat back 1.2k calories you won't lose weight. Starvation diets a stupid fad diets and no doubt in the month…

I generally don't feel hungry until I actually start eating. I will go from when I wake up, around 4:30 till lunch time without feeling like I need to eat. It's normally getting back from the gym and grabbing my protein shake that my body seems to come awake to the realisation that I need food. For instance my breakfast…

badgers can be quite vicious!

After reading this thread it reminded me that I was looking for a quick and easy hit to increase both my calories and my fats each day. Grabbed myself a pot of cashews, 332 calories and a whopping 26 grams of fat. Perfect :) Need to get myself a few big bags of nuts to make it a bit more economical than £1 for 60gs