jtcedinburgh Member

Scotland too, little town near Edinburgh.

Maybe I can help - I was 92.5Kg (6', male, 42) when I started MFP around - you guessed it, 3 months ago - and today - this very morning, in fact - I weigh 82.5Kg. My diary is open, if you want to see how I did it, but briefly I set a 1Kg/week goal (which I always knew would be ambitious, settling in my mind for 0.5Kg/week)…

Having done 5:2 in the past, I thoroughly recommend it, although you need to be both organised and strict on your '2' days....

For me, boobs. Nah, only kidding. It's face first, then thighs, arms and lastly belly. I started this MFP stuff in April and I'm down from 92.5Kg to 82.6Kg as of this morning. Just want to get down to sub 80Kg and then start re-building...

Hmmm.... I was okay for the first month or so (I'm around 10/11 weeks from starting this). I do get up kinda early to do my morning run, but I thought I'd adjusted to that :)

Ta. I fail the neck check - I have symptoms all over. I will rest up...

Oh, I was running before - did stuff like Marcothon through December, etc. - but perhaps the past 7 weeks have been the most intense (due to the walking as well). To be fair, up until last Friday's race I was on old trainers, and having chucked them and opened the spare pair, they were clearly past it. Like me knees,…

Cheers folks, I did think the quote I posted was hokum, but I wanted to get your take on it. And, let me stress once again, it's not something I wrote, nor believe, but I was prepared to at least verify (or debunk, as it happens) the claims...

Yes, the surgeon told me that it's quite normal after such an accident to have permanent restriction of motion in the arm. In fact, what I have ended up with is quite good, considering how bad it was (broken in 7 places immediately above the elbow, requiring a lot of internal pinning, reconstruction and the like - 5 hour…

Where do you find the time to do 47000 steps, firef1y72? I reckon you'd have to be walking constantly all day to achieve that, no? I reckon that must be a distance of 22-25 miles (depending on your height)? I would happily walk this amount in a day but never have the time to do so - I tend to average ~15k-18k steps/day.

Not as such but I've taken to getting up at 0530 and running 5K before getting ready (I generally catch a train at 0700ish). It does mean that I start the day having done something positive, and it's great for getting my Fitbit steps going for the day :)

Thanks. I am losing weight, but slower than the 1500 net target would suggest. I guess that this implies that the Charge HR is slightly over-calculating burn, but as I rarely eat all of the FB cals I am still losing (~0.5Kg/week rather than the 1Kg as per the target). However, I am feeling much fitter, which can only be a…

Interesting. I was always under the impression that the body wouldn't break down muscle unless as a last resort (i.e. in sustained starvation conditions), instead liberating energy from stored fat. I could be wrong about that though. I wonder if consciously working those muscles would prevent them from being 'targeted' for…

I'm a newcomer to the Charge HR and love it - though you will need to charge the thing roughly every three days. Only takes a couple of hours though.

Out of interest, if you do weight training whilst in a deficit, do you gain strength or tone? I'd have thought that you would, even if it's not a question of increasing muscle mass.

Ironically, the weight seems to come off first in all the places you don't think you need it to, with the places where you do always being the last to see the benefit. In my case, I start looking gaunt in the face before I lose belly fat....

OK, thanks. Looks like I might need to be eating a bit more some days, as I had clearly misunderstood. Having to eat more is never a bad thing in my book :)

Not meaning to use them as an excuse, simply to point out that going to the gym isn't (at present) an option for me. TRX, etc., on the other hand, certainly is. Back to my question re: deficit, though. Which one is correct?

The problem is I don't have time to dedicate to weights right now - but the running/walking I can fit around other things. I do have some dumbbells which I can and do use, but my running is done very early and the only local gym to me doesn't open until after I have to leave for work; evenings being tied up with kids etc.)

Thanks. Can I check I'm doing this right then. Let's take yesterday as an example: My 'maintenance' MFP target (to stay at ~89Kg as I currently am) is 2280 KCal per day My MFP target to lose 1Kg/wk (before exercise KCal) was 1500 KCal per day I ate 2191 KCal during the day I had 1110 KCal from exercise (5K run + two walks,…

Just started MFP and FitBit. 42. 6'. Need to lose a stone or so, maybe two (and then put it back on in the right places). Glad to be 'in' the club :)

I'm new to this but the only time I take the Charge HR off is when I'm showering OR needing to charge it. Only had it a week so that might change though :)