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Thanks a lot for the pointers, it's a nice confirmation for me as this was exactly what I've been doing so far. Got me a digital kitchen scale to measure everything I eat (from my daily portion of Weetabix at breakfast to how much proteine i'm putting in my shake) rather obsessively, but I like to know exactly instead of…
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Thanks for the reply! The problem is that I've tinkered with the Scooby calc a bit and all 3 methods list a minimum of 3000 cals/day (TDEE method). That would mean I'm undereating by 500 per day. All these different calculators have got me confused, especially considering they almost all give different outputs. I don't…
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That one seems to overestimate my BMR tremendously. It lists it at 2728. If I input my excercise level it stated I need to eat 1000 calories per day more than I'm eating now. That's huge. Most BMR calculator put me at 2300-2400, which is probably still an overestimate for someone like me who is overweight and has a high %…
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You'll get used to it. I started running 9 months ago. I couldn't run for 5 minutes without needing to catch my breath and the days after I went running my shins, knees and calves were yelling for me to stop. Now I run 40-50 minutes at a moderate pace comfortably. My legs still ache the day after running but by evening…
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My biggest fail recently: not thinking and assuming 100g uncooked pasta equals 100g cooked pasta. So while planning my meals for this week I needed 400g cooked pasta and I prepared 400g uncooked, only to end up with about 400-500g of cooked pasta that went to waste :) Now i'm counting a uncooked x 2 = cooked conversion…
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6'3 Start weight 308 Goal weight 200 Started 2 weeks ago. Long way to go, but i'll get there.
