Li5a87MFP Member

i’ll have a look at getting some

okay fresh start for tomorrow with a new 4-6 weeks, will weight daily, what’s your opinion on weekly weigh ins? should i just forget that and just keep going with daily for a while?

see pics below iv actually been giving myself the right amount in cereal but underestimating my milk by about 50ml.... now eating cereal at 2:13am lol

i think this is where my issues lie as hearing eat 2000 calories a day is terrifying!! yet if you look back through my diary some over eating days i eat nearly 4,000 and some days i eat nearer 1,000... i think because i was sedentary for so long i got use to 1,200-1,300 ish being ok... i’m now struggling with what to eat…

i agree i think i need to stop aiming for 2lbs, i do fluctuate a lot and struggle with side effects and get disheartened easily. iv been telling myself if i lose a stone, 2lbs a week i will feel better and then keep it up but i don’t think that way of thinking has helped at all, x

hi thank you for you detailed look at my diary and thread. i have looked at fitbit average for last 30 days is 2,731 average calories burnt a day (most of which would be mon-fri) i do better the weeks i have over night oats (measured oats) for breakfast and so may just go back to this and skip cereal as feel fuller on the…

@JaydedMiss i think you’re right if i tighten up the tracing as well as going back to the my fitness pal calculation it should help x

i would fall in the 1.5 bracket which is interesting as iv always thought i’d be fine with 2lbs a week x

i aimed to lose 2lbs a week and that was how my fitness pal calculated 1,700 for me, it was me that then changed this down to 1,400 thinking the 1,700 would be too much as before it’s taken me about 1,200 when i wasn’t exercising at all. i think i just made it harder for myself in the long run doing that rather than…

so if i actually had stuck to the 1,700 for a few weeks i’d have probably ended up at a steady 2lbs a week, instead of knocking my calories down to 1,400 not realising the active element and not eating enough so then eating too much other days, and the scales going up and down rather than not going down steadily. x

tbh i don’t eat enough bread for it to be that much of an issue, i certainly can’t afford to eat 600 calories of veggies a day, i also have lost weight enough times to know what’s in food. i think my issue this time around is balancing out calories in against a now higher amount of calories out, how this has affected my…

Yes my fitness pal calculated around 1,700 which i thought was too high as i didn’t realise selecting active made a difference to the calories! so i customised it to 1,400. so i guess on my good days i have been eating too little resulting in my bad days being bad and my body not knowing what the hell to do, as some weeks…

i’m trying to let my fitness pal calculate my calories for me but now i’m a premium member i can’t work out how to do it as it just says custom and wants me to do it...grrr x

no xx

my calorie intake goal is one i made up as the my fitness pal one seemed too high so i took around 200/300 calories off it, however may well be affecting it if it’s taking it off and i’m assuming it’s not

will i be able to do this easier if i take exercise calories off or not do as i don’t now x

see above thank you x

i don’t weigh all my food for example if a loaf of bread says 90 calories a slice i will take it as 90 calories a slice, if it’s something like cheese in a sandwich or oats i will weigh it out with scales, i don’t weigh fruit and veg i just guess. i tend to average around 1,700 calories a week before exercise which is over…

Generally they go off the barcodes otherwise if it’s something iv cooked myself i will calculate the measurements of the whole thing and then divide it into potions. i walk sorry not run as in the school run walk, on average i walk about 6/7 miles a day. x

activity level in MFP is set to active. i work with horses and do a school run before and after so i’m on my feet for five hours a day five days a week, i average 13,000 steps and also a lot of lifting, bending, carrying etc, i don’t ride. i don’t take any exercise off my calories on my fitness pal as was scared i was over…

dairy is now public everyone thanks. i weight things like oats and ingredients or i can on the food labels x

yes will make it public now x

i go over my deficit 2/3 days a week but stay well under it the other days so only ever go around 200-400 over my weekly average and that isn’t taking off five hours of exercise. i don’t ride so the steps are just steps x

exactly the same way i did when i lost 2 and a half stone

my macros are 20% protein, 30 % fat and 50 % carbs most days.

but if i’m going over my net calories a few hundred a week but not taking off five hours of exercise, 5 days a week surely something’s wrong? iv lost weight before so i know how calorie deficits work i’m just wondering am i affecting weight loss or water retention or something by eating more calories at weekends or…

see above, thank you x

i’m not riding until iv lost more weight, the steps are just steps, i’m on my feet walking for 5 hours a day, 5 days a week xx

these are typical weeks, a few days a week i go over, mostly i stay under so average for the week isn’t that much over goal, but this does not take off any calories i’m burning at work x