MelanieCN77 Member

Same. A 5k burns 260-280 for me.

Sure if you keep to your calories. I, for one, can't imagine going back to being so sedentary again. A lot of my exercise I now enjoy for the sake of it, and only once in a while struggle through the plan.

A lot of people who lose weight quickly gain it back not because of anything to do with their metabolism, but because they didn't find a sustainable way to eat. I would imagine embarrassment and feeling defeatist might make some people blame the regain on other things. You sound like you are taking a more sensible approach…

Are you under your calories at that time? I would get the munchies at night as well and would generally be under cals but the last 4-500 were crap like graham crackers and popcorn which are easy to eat and moreish. I started making my lunch 100 cals or so bigger and then making sure my dinner is 6-700 cals instead of the…

A well poached egg over brussels cooked up with onions and mushrooms is amazing.

Two big mugs of coffee and either yoghurt or cottage cheese and fruit. Sometimes toast and a laughing cow wedge, or a "toaster size" ie smaller bagel and same. Once in a while hot oatmeal. If I had my *kitten* together, overnight oats. Once I had a tuna sandwich because I just really wanted that. I do hit the gym pretty…

Hula hoops, wotsits and quavers. I've lived in the US since 2001 and the difference in cals and servings in the crisps at home is astonishing. I filled my carryon coming home with multipacks from Sainsburys.

Ohh I am totally trying both of these! I've always been a fruit and CC person except for sometimes on a pita with deli meat, but the radish and the green onion sound so good. I've been struggling to find sides for my lunches that aren't popcorn chips or crackers of some kind and this is perfect.

The bottle of olive oil rarely comes out of the cupboard these days. I used to eat a lot of pasta now it's practically absent from my diet. Same with butter, regular cheddar cheese and milk (I snack on babybel or string cheese and use parmesan on dishes, and have switched to cashew milk). I don't remember the last time I…

A sprinkle of paprika is nice. Sometimes I put it in a pita sandwich with ham, instead of mayo or something else.

I think I'm going to make meatballs with the ground turkey I have here, and saute up some veg.

More than 2 days, less than forever.

It's not impossible but we can't say without your height/weight/age to go off to consider if the burn/deficit are reasonable.

My gym gave me two PT sessions free when I signed up and I only used one as it was a fairly routine workout and test and then some up-sell. I felt free to hit her up for a question or two the rest of that week even though I wasn't buying any packages.

I've typed so many replies to AW questions lately, you should do a quick search and take a look.

Have them go over form for all the moves you want to do, rather than spend all their time on the fitness benchmarks they want to go through with everyone. Also if you don't plan on seeing them regularly say so up front and explain what you're hoping to get out of the appointment.

Is this you?

I bounced around 137-140 most of December and weighed at 136 today after three straight days of good discipline.

Your body will get more efficient at exercises as you progress, that's your fitness improving.

Just start? Add an activity watch face and pay attention to it. Use the workout tracker. Report back in a couple weeks.

Back when I used WW, I was horrified to find that the tostada salad from El Pollo Loco was all of my 27PP for the day. It is basically a giant chip with some stuff on it, they should call it nachos haha.

Huh I'll have to pay more attention. I haven't found that to be the case but also nor am I standing over the pot waiting for stews and the like to finish so I can QR.

I can get a headache if I drink cold water out of the fridge system.

AW doesn't think steps outside of a workout are a big indicator of activity worth giving extra cals for. Each tracker has a different approach and their calculations on your BMR and TDEE will all be different, and this is how AW differs from Fitbit. Also unlike Fitbit, for deliberate exercise you should start and stop a…

Stop naming them, it doesn't change anything and as you see you start playing roulette with MFP. Circuit training it picks up just fine, if you want to use that. Core and HIIT, no. Personally I just leave it as "other."

It's not a straight exchange for me. I do not get equally as hungry for as many calories as I burn, but the exercise does allow me to build in room for higher calorie/calorie dense treats which have little to do with hunger. I think 50% I work out for the extra cals and 25% for vanity and 25% for the "wow look what I can…

"Other" and don't name it HIIT or MFP won't pick it up, just leave it plain "other." All the labels are are labels, they don't change how the AW counts anything, but if the label you choose doesn't feature in MFP's database (like HIIT) it won't pass through and you'll have to add it manually to see your true total cals.

Salads are scams! Say no to salads! I aimed for 10 books last year and I think I hit 13 including a few audiobooks. I'll aim for the same I think. I'm kinda in a groove and not shaking things up too much -I floss and get 8 hours of sleep lol. I'm going to pay proper attention to recomping in Feb after I'm done trying out…

Daily is really the only way. While losing, weighing once a week gives you a really fuzzy view of what's going on.

The dexa scans and the like can tell you where your fat is stored, if you really want answers.