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Ok, read through that entire topic, and what i'm getting from everything now is to make sure I net my BMR. So, I'm gonna try that. It's more than I've usually eaten over the past 6 months, but it's worth giving a shot, so I'll try netting just over BMR, and eating back exercise calories, and see what sort of results I see.

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A similar thing happened to me about 7 years ago when I first lost a lot of weight. I honestly didn't realise I was being rude, but when you've been overweight your entire life and you lose a lot, especially quickly, a bit of arrogance and cockiness comes out unfortunately. Took a good friend of mine to say something and…

Minimum of 16kg (35lbs)

That's my problem I guess, in my head I feel like the weight training doesn't do anywhere near what the cardio does, so I can't get my head around not doing a lot of cardio. I use a HRM, and with my weight training and little amounts of cardio I only burn about 300-400, on my big cardio days I can burn up to 1500cal, which…

Thanks heaps, that site explains it better than any i've been to. Cheers mate.

Optimum Nutrition is the best on the market in my opinion. Double Rich Chocolate, Strawberry and Cookies and Cream all taste fantastic :)

Actually yea, I never thought of averaging it over the week actually. I usually come close to 5k every week burnt at the gym, so I could do sedentry TDEE x7 then add the 5k, then divide it back by 7 to work out an average TDEE over the week. I'll try that out for a bit, and see if that works for me.

That's easy, I have a desk job so I'm easily sedentry, but the main reason why I wanted to do it this way would be to eat a normal amount every day, instead of having to eat back my exercise cals (which on days I'm really bored I can burn over 2k at the gym). Seems more viable to average it, but I may have to work out an…

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Bump. Also, I've raised my daily intake to 2100, see how that goes for a couple of weeks

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Following up from the recommendation of ^^, I'd say go the one step higher and get the FT7. I've had fantastic results from it, and it only costs me 107.95 off Ebay delivered. Chest strap is fantastic, and I've only had one drop out (for about 20 seconds) in 2 months of training.

It can be either... If you ate an additional 1166 calories over your maintenance amount, you would gain 1/3 of a pound. If you ate 350 over it, you would gain 1/10th of a pound. All relative.

I was more just tubby and had the same issue, could not do them and had to focus on just crunches. A trick that got me into situps, was using a weight to hold your feet down to start with. I was doing them at the gym, and put a 10kg weight on my feet, and within 2 weeks I was able to do full situps without using the…

Honestly, I'm pretty sure I'm underestimating my exercises. I take what my HRM says, and take about 100 for each exercise off. Adding Bacon to anything makes it great, bacon is a any time food. Peanut butter to the shakes definitely seems like a good easy option.

Also, speaking of macros, will setting them at 40-40-20 (carbs/protein/fat) be fine for weight loss?

I'm in this boat, and it's nothing to do with wanting attention. Up until about 3 months ago I was eating 3-5k calories a day, not knowing any better. When I started trying to eat healthier, and drinking heaps more water I feel full all the time, I feel like i've eaten all day today and literally just made a topic in…

Didn't think about the milk, good idea. That would probably do it right there, at least give it a kick in the right direction. I've heard people putting a spoonful of peanut butter in their chocolate protein shakes as well, there's a Optimum Double Choc that I was told tastes like a Reeses Peanut butter protein shake if…

Thanks guy! Big help for sure. Won't be changing my day to day logging

That's the thing, some days I literally sit at a desk all day. Some days I walk around the majority of the day. Most weekends, I'm moving a lot as well, can't really set every day to be the same unfortunately when they're not the same.

If someone judges you for that, then you should completely ignore them. If you want help raising your cals a bit, try getting some protein shakes, and add a spoonful of peanut butter in. One shake a day with peanut butter can add anywhere up to 350cals into your diet :) Edit: For reference, I would use something like…

Well according to the BMI scale, I'm technically about 66 lbs overweight, so I should be definitely making my 1500 calorie target?

Well it's all in kilos, but I'll translate it. I started at 125kg (275lbs), I'm down to 105 (231lbs). I'd like to lose probably another 25kgs, and get down to about 80. Unfortunately, I was previous up around 160kgs, so I have about 8-10kgs of excess skin which is not helping matters at all but I'll figure that out when…