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I had a look at my stats on MFP and it recommends me eating a bit over 1800 calories based on me being a food server if I want to maintain my weight whereas the TDEE ones say 2000 to maintain with a ton of exercise. So do I eat 1800 and ignore my exercise calories if I want to lose weight? I've been eating roughly in the…

All what?

I'm on my feet a lot which doesn't help! I've done 26,370 steps and I haven't even started my run yet or the gym!

I feel like I'm always in training. April I did a half marathon, June it's 20 miles, August another half with a potential half in October. 10K in July and another one the cards for November. I'll have a weeks recovery or so from my 20 miles then it's pretty much maintaining my fitness to get my PB for the 10K in July then…

I was doing heavy lifting 3 days a week but since injury we've kind of paired it back and working on getting my injured side stronger through more running specific exercises. I still have deadlifts but swapped for single ones, still do squats, rows but also some mobility stuff which I wasn't doing before when I was just…

155cm and as of today 54.9kg. Heavier than I would like to be!

Yes it's exactly that, training your body to become fat adapted or something like that anyway. But really what does it actually matter, the only thing I'm doing by fueling during my runs is putting calories in, if I'm ok with that then it does make any difference, I'm getting to the end one way or another. I'm competing…

It ends up being 2 hours long because of the quantity of exercises and the 1.30 rest in between the 5 sets. If it's 3x10 I get it done in an hour.

Thanks for the input, I'll keep going! In answer to some queries my weight routine consists of the compound exercises like deadlifts, rows, squats, bench, OHP with extras like push ups, pull ups, lunges... I can't do low low carb, I tried but I get grumpy. Plus I use energy gels etc when doing my long runs especially…

It doesn't help that I'm frustrated with my progress. I was at a lower weight than I am now 4 years ago but during the lockdowns I gained due to comfort eating/drinking and not moving as much. I lost almost all of it between 2022 and 2023 but I did go a bit rogue towards the back end of last year, slacked off with…

OK great, I'll stick with what I'm doing then for 12 solid weeks hopefully and go from there.

That just makes my brain hurt, I understand what they mean but for me it overcomplicates matters and the swapping weights during a session will just take up extra time and I'm already sticking to a tight schedule. Thanks though, will keep it in mind. R.e. what I'm doing now would you stick to 10 or do 12?

I'm upping my weight every time I get my 10×10, I was doing 3x10 then 3x11 then 3x12 then upping it but it's harder to track and I wasn't really feeling any stronger. I only do 12 now if it's a machine or a kettlebell where the jump to the next weight is several kgs.

You can see from the pic that I definitely don't look like I've been lifting weights, there is no definition there at all.

My watch automatically syncs to my diary for running and daily steps and I put the weight training in which I get from Google fit. I don't use it to eat back the calories though, it's just a useful record of what I've done when.

I think that's what I'll do, I've increased by 100 calories a day, ordered some different protein powder for a variety and some creatine to see if that helps too.

Well I guess I want to be a bit smaller in size but firmer and more defined. Hence where the weightlifting comes in, I'm a 5'1 female pushing 40, I will never and wouldn't to look like Arnold S but I just want to look better overall.

I just wanted to update and say that I just ran my first 5K in 35 minutes. I wasn't sure how long 5K would take me but I knew from the other day that 30 minutes wasn't quite long enough. I stopped running at 35 minutes having no idea how far I had got until I got home and looked at my data. What a difference a few weeks…

For me skinny fat is appearing to look quite slim even skinny but still have an absolute shed load of wobbly bits and absolutely no definition in the muscles. My bum, hips and thighs still cling onto so much of my fat and my bingo wings are just awful yet fully clothed I look in pretty good shape. Plus as the weight has…

It's Stronglifts so squats, bench row then I added pull ups (assisted still) push ups (now weighted) then planks (body weight) and then squats, OHP, deadlift and I added triceps dips, hip thrusts and bicep curls. Do alternate workouts 3 times a week using the rest day as a running day with one total rest day a week.

I'm 5'1 (155cm) and my final goal is something along the lines of 50kg (110lbs) or a bit less.

It will be but I'm not at my goal weight yet so trying to drop the last few kgs before being able to eat at maintenance.

I am doing well considering a lot of people don't even do half of the exercise I do. According to my Google fit my heart points are 5 times what the weekly recommended is even without doing 10,000 steps at the weekend. Not half bad! I also tried a bikini on today which fit and I even took a photo for my progress which I…

I've looked at the ways of increasing neat and a lot of it I already do. When I'm driving to work/school I park far away because I don't have a choice of parking closer, I can't park any further away because it's already tight getting to work on time. Today I finished work, walked a small distance to the car, drove to…

I was also a sprinter vs long distance in school but I feel like this is achievable for me if I put my mind to it. It's hard work and it sucks but there is a huge sense of achievement when I've ticked off my run.

Definitely not unless I've seriously underlogged my dinner out which I don't think I have. I'm about 2000 calories over maintenance last week so that would mean I've eaten but not logged a good 5000 over a week which I absolutely haven't. Hope I will see a drop soon enough. People have told me I look smaller than I did at…

My scales this morning tell me I've jumped up from 51.9 a week and a half ago to 53.1! I've been logging everything correctly as far as I can tell apart from last Friday when I had to guess. I logged my breakfast as normal but lunch ended up being a wrap and then dinner was a starter and a main. I came in at just over…

My distance won't be an issue for a while yet but I know that once I start training properly for a marathon the lifting will take a back seat and I'll just do enough to try keep what little muscle I've built. I don't know if I'm doing enough generally, my steps during the week are around 12,000 including the runs, weekends…

I did a 20 minute run yesterday which I was very proud of myself for. A friend wants me to do a 10K race in October so it would be nice to be able to do that. Maybe a half marathon next year too. I am going to struggle to fit everything in though, it's proving tough doing 3 running days and 3 weight training days as well…

I can and I will do this! I also walk for 5 minutes prior to my run and do a 5+ minute after depending how far I am from home. Fitting everything in is going to be challenging, I don't want to give up my weight training any time soon although that will have to get dropped with a few month's to go. I work and I have 2 small…