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i start work early, take an extra 30 mins at lunch and go in my lunch break. works well for me, great that my employer is flexible.

Just back from a weights day chest,shoulders, biceps & triceps. Cardio tomorrow!

Personally, I seem to lose more weight when anxious, as if the state of being anxious uses calories.

All I can think (given the restrictions) of are walking, cycling or rowing.

I like white cabbage, boiled, with a little margarine and pepper on it

dont need to be expensive. got mine for 20 quid

How is it being measured? If on scales they are very very inaccurate so the small change you are saying is likely within the error tolerance.

I do have a bottle of water on my desk which i refill, and I get through a bottle at the gym also, I just don't log non alcoholic drinks. If I ever buy pop it is always of the calorie free variety (I average less than a 330ml can a day). My main drink other than water is unsweetened tea with a splash of semi skimmed milk

I will plan to replace my mid afternoon bag of crisps with 2 fruit - from apples, bananas, orange/satsuma, grapes.

Added sodium to the tracking. Hadn't really considered that one, and should keep a weather eye on it - Thanks Yeah I eat pretty much no fruit, I don't like most fruit, only apples, oranges, bananas and grapes. I do however like virtually all veg.

A more accurate estimate of your calorie burn is obtained from a formula using your weight, sex, age, V02 max and average heart rate. You can spend moe and get a HRM that does the calc, or spend les and ty[e the average heart rate into a site such as…

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You can get a cheaper one and calculate your exercise calories on a website such as this http://www.triathlontrainingblog.com/calculators/calories-burned-calculator-based-on-average-heart-rate/ As long as you know your weight and the average HR from your session you're golden

Scrambled eggs! 2 large free range eggs comes in at approx 200 calories.

1 fried egg, 1 fried tomato, 1/2 cup fried mushrooms with either couple of sausages, or a burger or 2 rashers bacon All fried in that spray stuff rather than actual lard/oil

Sounds it. Like you say you can't use the exercise to bump you an activity level, and then log the same exercise to gain calories. I personally would go with the 1.2* and then log the cardio on days where you do it and try to net your goal.

Those scales that tell you your BF% are notoriously inaccurate. I wouldn't worry about it.

Measure as well as going by weight. I am really bad myself about seeing any changes, so rely on the tape measure to back up the scales.

I would only log out and out exercise, not general day to day tasks, as these would fall under your activity level. Sedentary <> in a coma never moving

You could leave it sedentary and log the exercise calories on days when you exercise. If you change the activity level you will be allowed more calories every day to meet whatever your goal is.

You could go the middle ground, set your calories for the day to maintain instead of lose and make the healthiest choices available.

Thanks for input everyone :)

I started off with the C25K program which is basically jog a while walk a while with the jogging increasing over time whilst the walking falls.

Great before and after - well done!

I find posture can affect the reading, maybe you were leaning forwards/backwards a little for one of the reads?

I am tracking by average HR anyway, I input whatever calorie burn is calcualted from my weight and average heart rate

No one gets overtly laughed at in the gym I go to, and in general the only snark you hear about gym goers(on message boards etc) is when they are not actually exercising, size irregardless.

If someones obviously disappeared (not logged in for 2 months or something) I'll happily drop them. Aside from that I want to see what people are doing and what is working for others, even if no overt interaction is taking place.

I was fat when I was a kid, but lost a ton of weight when I was about 15. In 28 inch jeans and everything. Thing is, I still thought I was fat. The one thin period I have had in my life I missed! Basically, I don't trust my own perception of myself.

I don't think the occasional day where you stray below 1200 will matter, as long as it's not habitual. If you're peckish have a piece of fruit or some soup or something. To a large extent it will depend what you have available.