callumwalker1995 Member

I'm NOT A FIRST YEAR, I'm going into my final year but I'm staying in halls of residences with other second/third years. I think i'll just go with the flow during freshers and try to get to the gym as much as possible but then adapt back to my routine after the week has done

I'm in my final year but I'm staying in halls of residence with other final year students and don't you think its a bit late to join a society? :( I also like going to the gym in the morning like 8 am which I obviously wouldn't be able to do if I went out the night bfore

I am going into my final year so i'm just worried that socialising would get in the way of my work that is essential for getting me that degree that I want.

I'm going out sunday and then Wednesday, do you think this is ok? shall I track these days as normal and leave some cals for drinks (about 600?) or just eat normal and have drinks as extra and just enjoy them instead of tracking them

the fitbit charge hr (which I have) is very accurate when doing normal activity or cv yet I compare it with my polar which has a heart rate monitor and the calories are about 600 less on my fitbit as ive found it sometimes fails to find my heart rate during exercise

yeah but who strikes a conversation and gets to know someone well in the gym or the library (where you get chucked out if you even so much as cough), drinking imo is the only place where people can actually show their full personality

yeah i agree with everything here its just i want to make friends and be more social as i was isolated and on my own the whole of last year but i still want to go to the gym in the mornings and study hard

in my last year though i just sat in my room studying the whole time and that's when i developed the depression from just staring at the same 4 walls all day and all night. i need a proper work/life balance but at the minute its about 90% work and 10% life

you do in freshers

so gym still every day as well as going out? what shall i do in freshers? you tend to go out every night boozing

how do you balance this with work as well?

that second line is brilliant :D

i thought all my problems would be solved buying one of these to know my caloric expenditure, i guess not. my polar said i burned 550 more calories than my fitbit did today purely because my hr was consistently above 100 whilst the fitbit said it was around 70

what is your advice then just carry on blking?

220g why?

220g

nothing unusually high in sodium, usually hit around 3000mg per day and hasve done for about 2 months so it has to be fat from the increase in cals

yeah that's pretty good advice, i weigh myself every morning and ive put 1.4 pounds on since sunday so would you recommend cutting back on the calories as this is weight gain too quickly? before i started 3800 calories i was on about 3600 but i wasn't gaining anything

both, i just wanted to know how many calories i was burning to see how much food i needed to maintain and then put on weight

i bought a fitbit on the advice of the doctors who told me to buy one to keep an eye on my calorie expenditure in the gym and she said they were pretty accurate, guess that's £100 down the drain

but surely just because your heart rate is higher it means your whole body is working harder and thus burning more calories?

i only wear the hr strap whilst I'm in the gym though so normal everyday circumstances wouldn't apply would they? although are you saying that my hr strap doesn't know I'm in the gym or something? what would your advice be then, ignore both?

I would like to apologise to all users on here that have given me such solid advice that I have ignored. It is vastly appreciated and hopefully will go some way to help me conquer this disease

thanks mate

why is that?

i guess the fact that my weight has increased by 1.4 pounds since sunday means I'm eating too much!

i guess i can look at both and change my calories based on how I'm feeling and whether I'm gaining weight or not

what about weight training?

so are the calories burned wide of the mark from both?

i did a 2k run and then did weight/resistance training for 2 hours