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You don't have to do something as drastic as cutting out whole food groups (Keto, LCHF, Paleo etc.) I tried Keto but it wasn't for me, I lost weight short-term then relapsed into my old habits. You probably gained the weight in years, so don't expect to change your life in a matter of days, one step at a time. Start off…

Thank you for the kind words :smile: I managed to run 1.5 km today in 9:30, not a lot but its something :smile: , plan now is to raise it to 5.0 km by the end of May in under 30:00 which is reasonable I think considering I could run it once upon a time. I hope that by the end of May I'll hit 100 kg and from there do a…

Great work man :)

Depending on your weight, walking might be the safer course for your joints, but at the end of the day you need to keep on calories in and calories out to lose weight, walking helps to get you a few extra calories to consume but mostly its just a good thing to do, I usually go for 1.5 hour walks with headphones and some…

Your plan is pretty much what my goal is as well. I was at around 277 pounds and I'd like to get down to 200 pounds, I'm at 227 pounds atm so not much left. Where I differ is that I don't wanna touch the weights, plan is to get down at 200 pounds and do recomposition through bodyweight exercises, to that end I'll start…

I would just buy a container of ice cream and eat it at home where you can weigh it and actually track the calories, after a while you will get a feel of the kcal vs volume of ice cream and it will be simpler to guesstimate the next time you're eating out :smiley:

So what I thought was a plateau was actually still weight loss, good thing I didn't cut my calories too much. you can notice a small pattern from the beginning of the month, 1 week of plateau then at the end of the 2nd week a drop in weight, which is weird, I'm guessing with the 7 km a day walks force my body to retain…

At the end of the day, to drop the weight you need to be in a caloric deficit, check out a TDEE calculators and to start off go for a small deficit, wouldn't go over 500 kcal if I'm being honest. The simplest exercise for weight-loss would be to go for a walk, grab a phone, track your steps / kilometers / miles and go…

You shouldn't stress about losing weight fast, the slower you lose the higher chance there is that it will stay off. If you go 0 to a 100 overnight you will just burnout. Keep a low deficit and track your weight, I personally weigh myself every morning but track the loss on a weekly sometimes bi-weekly basis because your…

I recently had this dilemma, and after some "research" for barilla i take it as 100 grams of uncooked at 360, and 100 grams of cooked is 180 since pasta gains in volume as you cook. Me and the wifey cook roughly 300 grams of pasta and then the division goes to roughly 2/3 to me and 1/3 to her plate. So to avoid weighing…

Thank you :) have a nice day

I work an office job from home :smiley: so ye, sedentary is pretty applicable. Thing about eating half of my exercise calories is because I am unsure in the accuracy of my calorie loss. the numbers I'm getting are consistent with online calculators, so assuming they are correct by not eating those calories I might go into…

My activity level in MFP is sedentary because for some reason I like to see it as a baseline, if it was lightly active I assume it would up my calorie goal number, my thought process is if I keep it baseline and manually log my exercise I would be more accurate :/ I've kept my deficit at 500 kcal which is 1 pound a week of…

For today I basically ate none of my exercise calories, but the numbers I was entering were consistent with multiple formulas I found though Google Fit gave a lower number than the app I usually use. According to this chart (I'm actually 230 pounds atm) today was more or less consistent to what the app said, I walk 4.3…

Oh, regarding the food, I weigh everything on a scale in grams.

No problem, thanks for taking the time to read. I would take the steps, and plug in a steps to calorie converter, the screenshot isn't from Google Fit tho. The app logs basically only when the phone moves, and I leave the house 2 to 3 times a day for walks. When you say use more than 300-400 for that amount of walking what…

On average for the past week I walk 1:30 hrs a day

I use my phone to track steps / kilometers then till now I mostly entered the kcal manually via calculators but I connected MFP with Google Fit today. This is last weeks report Today I walked 14k steps or roughly 6,2 miles I'm 180 cm or 5.9 feet Outside walking I work an office job, and ye 104 is 230 lbs but I'm not sure…

My personal opinion is that if I need a cheat day I'm doing something wrong, I'd rather have a bite here and there to satisfy my cravings as long as I don't go crazy over my maintenance than go with huge restriction diet and then reward myself with a cheat day. Problem with my past attempts was that the cheat day soon…

I wish you luck, 20 kilos in 7 months seems reasonable, I suggest you track your calories and go from there :) While nuts are healthy even a handful pack a huge punch on your daily calorie intake so I suggest caution :D

Thanks :)

Thanks :)

Thanks for the compliment :) Ye, everything is on the table but you still have to be mindful that indulging yourself with a chocolate or a cookie is fine as long as you don't go over your maintenance kcal. That kind of mentality keeps me away from cheat meals cause I don't look at it as a cheat meal, I look at it as a way…

Try to visualize those thousands of pounds :D "According to Density - The Physics Hypertextbook both body fat and olive oil have a density of . 918 g/cm3. So a pound, 453.592 g, occupies 494.1 cm3, or a cube about 7.9 cm (3.11 inches) on a side."

I'd agree with tinkerbellang83, 1200 kcal seems way to low, especially with 20000 steps a day, that is roughly 900 kcal burned. 500 kcal deficit from your maintenance should be more than enough combined with your walks to lose that 1 stone in a a month or so.

Roughly 10 months and 22 kilos down :) from 126 kg to 104 kg, want to get down to 90 kg.