Alpine021 Member

Just to note I'm not saying "eating back" calories is technically incorrect I just feel it complicates things when you could just view weight loss (fat loss) as using using diet and exercise to reach you daily calorie target.

Love the way everyone keeps mentioning eating them back when I'm trying to get rid of the phrase! At the end of a day say you are 300 calories short of your deficit caloric goal (so maybe effectively 800 short) you either have some food if you want or have a larger deficit. Alter your mindset! Nothing to do with eating…

I round everything down. Also I don't use MFP for burn. I have a band and if says 300 calls I put 200 on MFP. if I do 450 calories on the treadmill I put 300 on MFP. Not that I don't trust the data I just think it's a buffer this way. And like I said I do my calories over a week not day by day so agreed it's the overall…

To be honest though I just do more mid week (work out more and eat well) and also try and get some exercise in at the weekends then it's not so bad.

If it wasn't for weekends I'd be exactly where I want to be :)

Apologies you are right it is a 1000 calorie deficit. I'm sure I've read loads that it's 500! Let's stick to 1lb a week then! 2lbs is possible and on the edge of healthy but very difficult.

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Totally agree. All I'm saying is any individual just needs to hit their BMR (the amount of calories needed for your body to function) after that just exercise to hit your deficit. On days you don't exercise just break even and you will still lose weight over the course of a week. Losing 2lbs a week is not easy and not for…

Why do people say losing 2lbs a week is not possible or too aggressive? That's not supportive or motivational. 2lbs a week is absolutely doable. It requires a 500 calorie deficit a day which isn't easy I agree but when you add exercise it's not that hard. 2lbs a week is not only possible but also a perfectly healthy weight…

If he's consuming that few calories he'll be losing fat and also muscle. Your body needs a certain amount of calories to function so it will take energy from wherever it can including muscle.

How are you finding P90X? I bought it but just can't be doing with hour long workouts. Plus the Yoga is 90 minutes! In terms of your question though it's seems generally accepted that your muscles are sore after a workout so the quicker you get them nutrients to repair them the better (i.e. Whey protein shake) but I think…

Just had a play about on MFP and "not very active" and "lightly active" have the same calorie goal? It only changes when I move it to "active" ??

Agree with all the above. A deficit is all you need but a high protein diet will help. High protein foods require more calories to process / digest, make you feel fuller, repairs muscles after workouts etc. Win win win :)

That pic wasn't supposed to be that big, lol

Sorry what I meant it is always hit the 10,000 minimum but because I make sure I end up doing about 12,500 anyway. So I'm thinking put myself as active then just add extra specific exercise?

So you think setting myself as sedentary and then just count all my exercise including the 10,000 steps? (Or a portion of them). It seems that putting yourself as active includes workouts so when I do a big workout (say 500 calories) I've no idea how to include it. Does that sound like the way forward?

I'm good in the week for doing a daily deficit and working out. I like a few drinks at weekends though. So totally agree with some of the above in terms of doing extra exercise at weekends. I'll also eat a bit less. This way I can have drinks with my mates at night. I may be slightly over my calories for the day but I'm…

My tracker isn't synced to MFP I don't think it can. I'm down as active although maybe I should change it to lightly active. I ride 1 mile to work everyday and back plus go to the gym a few times a week at least, and make sure I walk my steps. I could set it sedentary although it was depress me looking at the amount of…

5000-7000 steps isn't calculated into your BMR though. It's just your body functioning. I know people that sit in the house all day. They don't "gain" calories burnt equivalent to 5000-7000 steps.

Agree but your BMR is what you burn without moving right? As in what you would burn doing nothing? Totally appreciate I don't want to double count. What I'm doing is 10,000 steps above my commute to work. So if I do 10,000 steps extra I want to gauge what kind of calorie expenditure this is. Even if it's 200 calories. Does…