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  • I'm 6 foot 1 (187cm), male and I'm not even technically a healthy weight, but I'm a long way from where I started and want to maintain for a while to prove I can and to let my body get used to the changes. I'm currently 91.3kg or 205 pounds. I have been adding calories for a while, since I started with a budget of 2000.…
  • There's no way I can eat more than 3600 cals of healthy food every day. I guess I will have to try reducing the exercise a bit. I am doing between 1 and 2.5 hours every day, most days close to 1.5, although most of that is walking, so not particularly strenuous. Its a shame, walking with a podcast or audiobook has rapidly…
  • Ok, so I hit the bottom of my range today, not in a week or two as I predicted. I have lost about 1kg in the last week. A bit worrying. Something wrong with my scales maybe?!
  • Walnuts, avocado, oats, pumpernickle bread or huel are my options usually, depending on where my macros are. Drizzling with olive oil would also be acceptable.
  • Hope its the NEAT thing. Its definitely easier to get off the couch when I'm lighter. Plus sitting down is less comfortable with less padding! :smile: I'll prepare myself for the possibility of my TDEE stabilising and me having to cut calories down again a bit though. Thanks for the heads up.
  • I have a neurotic fear that the gods will strike me down for hubris if I buy new clothes at my smaller size. The only way I can convince myself is to say that the new clothes don't represent an assumption that I have "won", but a tool to help catch it if I start getting bigger (i.e. if my new clothes are getting tight).
  • Does anyone know of an app that does the more accurate sort of estimate for walking calories?
  • Thanks @sijomial. I have opened my diary up to friends, if you want to take a look. I don't know uf that let's you see my rate of loss, but Im happy to share more details if it doesn't. I had assumed that MapMyWalk took body weight into account. Is that not so? The HIIT are some "easy on the knees" Jo Wicks YouTube videos.…
  • Have you considered logging for a while in maintenance? Just to get a feeling for what your maintenance calories look and "feel" like? After a couple of months (3 to 6 maybe), you could try a month without logging, but be honest with yourself if your weight starts trending up, and be prepared to go back to logging.…
  • Ok, I didn't realise that it takes so long to process food into fat. I concede your point.
  • Well, I'm judging it by several individual days, but you're right that I haven't tried consuming my estimated calories without exercise for an extended run of days.
  • Good point. Hadn't thought about NEAT.
  • That's not always reliable though, for a particular individual. I suspect my TDEE without exercise is less than it says, because I often gain a bit on my rest days, and I'm consuming 70 calories less than it suggests.
  • Saw Dr after all. Says its rough cartilage on back of knee. I googled that, and that looks like Chondromalacia Patellae, or "runners knee" again, although its fine on stairs. Not arthritis or anything else. The Dr doesn't seem to think I should change my activity. Just told me to take ibuprofen.
  • Do you include not walking? (I mean walking for exercise, obviously I will be walking around the house) If so, does anyone have any advice for backing off from exercise? My calorie level has been determined experimentally, so I have no idea of how much I can sustain when resting. The only thing I can think to do is cut by…
  • Thanks. Although as I always say: congratulate me in 5 years when I have maintained it. Basically a rest day, for me, is a day when I don't do HIIT. I still do the same walking and yoga. Rest days are every third day. Thanks!
  • Unfortunately the chances of getting a physical exam or a scan right now are zero, with the corona situation, but I'm going to talk on the phone today.
  • Well, I have lost weight and put it on again in the past, but that was by starving myself (not calorie counting) and then going back to "normal". I have never counted properly before, and certainly never counted in maintenence. I guess I just have to hope I'm one of the people it continues to work for, since I have no idea…
  • 70 calories for me! A whole apple! Worth it! In all seriousness, I'm not currently varying my calorie intake according to exercise on a daily basis, so recording it is not likely to cause me issues with consuming too much.
  • Thanks all. I'm less interested in the calories than in just keeping a record of what I'm doing all in one place. i do find it motivating. At the same time, I don't want the calories to be wildly misleading. So I guess I'll do the recording a block of callisthenics thing.
  • I occasionally have some of the "Fast 800" shake. I don't generally use them to replace food on a daily basis. I use them: (a) when things really get on top of me and things don't have time to prepare healthy food. (b) if I'm targeting a particular calorie level and my "real" food doesn't quite get me there, so I need an…
  • Thanks, I'll not panic for now. It would be good in MFP could interoperate with other apps that have a more complete nutritional approach, like CRONometer, that can give you a better idea of your micronutrient intake. Still, I guess that might not be in the interests of either company, commercially.
  • Thanks @AnnPT77, @cmriverside, @paperpudding, @kimny72 for your reassurances. I'll not panic yet, and I'll put the calories up 50-100 in a few days or a week if the trend continues.
  • I certainly try to be accurate. I use food scales rather than eye-balling, and for food that changes weight when cooking (e.g. rice, steamed veg) I weight both before and after cooking (at least, when the calories are given in uncooked weight).
  • @AnnPT77 I certainly hope that its the app underestimating in my case - although I'm fairly content with the amount I'm eating at the moment, to be honest. The only thing that has changed recently is that I have shifted most of my serious exercise to the morning. I don't know if that could make a difference though.
  • In terms of water weight, I haven't been cutting carbs recently or anything like that. My macros are usually 18-25% protein, and then a more or less even split between carbs and fat, although I try to keep saturated fat under RDA.
  • My height is 1.87m. My weight is 101.2kg. My rate of loss since mid-May has been 1.8kg per week according to Libra, but 2.3kg in the last week. I have been trying to slow it down by gradually increasing calories, but not succeeding so far.
  • Really insightful, thanks @gallicinvasion. I have an "all or nothing" tendency which I definitely need to plan around. Also, a big worry for me is what happens if something stops me from exercising (e.g. injury). So I do have things to think about in terms of "curve balls".
  • I think this is something I can live with if I know there is a light at the end of the tunnel - if the hunger will eventually reduce, or if I will get used to the it.
  • I'm definitely less hungry on days when I have more protein and fibre. I think fibre is especially important, and the good thing about fibre is that it is often present in high quantities in vegetables, which are pretty low calorie. Here's a good article which usefully features "fibre per 200 calories" for a long list of…
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