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....oh there's a definate podge there... The photo doesn't really do it justice tho!
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Thanks so much all of you for replying... Just to let you know that you I have seen your messages, I really appreciate them.... And I'm out and about on my phone at the moment, but I'll reply properly when I can :)
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its more about quantity and moderation that cutting out entire foods. let my fitness pal calculate your calorie requirements to lose the desired amount of weight and then log your food accurately to stick to it
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PS why don't you make your own chicken nuggets?
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Woah, that's an unfortunate thread title if ever I've seen one!
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No disrespect, but if you have to ask questions like that then there's room for a little more "education".
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oops I've been weighing my meat after I've cooked it.... In fact even things liked baked potatoes I've been weighing after cooking, using an entry like "potatoes - baked" or something I may have to pay more attention to this.
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+1 I sometimes have quorn fillets, which come frozen. it says on the the bag 54g per fillet......... but I cooked 2 and then weighed then and it only came to 45g! so I just entered 108g, as I guess you're supposed to weigh them when frozen!
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that's OK, I'm far from an expert but those are just general observations that I have picked up from reading these forums :)
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I had a look at about a weeks worth of your food diary. a few suggestions I would make: - measure everything by weight, instead of "a cup of rice" etc - you're always about 20g under on your protein most days - you seem to go over on fat most days - you seem to go over on sodium quite a bit most days - which can lead to…
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hmm.... "A tablespoon of peanut butter"..... that sounds familiar! it might be worth you watching this youtube video, made by a member of this website that I watched a few weeks ago. it's a bit of an eye opener... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5sovhvLAig
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a.... how accurate is your food logging? is everything weighed and entered correctly? b.... how are you calculating calories burned? 350 - 420 seems quite high for 25 mins exercise....
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I'd be interested to hear the answer to this too. the general impression I get from here is that it's more about strength training - but I've seen youtube videos suggest cardio too... which seems odd...
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re. BIB..... what the......?!
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ok, that's great, thank you so much for all the kind advice :)
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Woah! Sure sounds like a lot! Really, I think I may still have a few food issues that I'll need to work through. today I'm 315 cals under (goal still set to 1580) BUT I've gone slightly over on saturates, sugar and protein.... And since I can't find any food that contains zero of these 3 things, I daredn't eat anything…
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OK. Thanks so much for all your advice. If I select lose fat gain muscle it tells me to eat 2019 cals..... But my weight won't change..... Just change to muscle..... ....provided I do the correct amount of exercise.... .... Looks like I'm gonna have to face my gymphobia then!
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Thanks. Yes I've made the whole restricting calories mistakes way too many times before, with bad consequences. I put sedentary , but it varies a lot, (as I'm on summer break I'm not on my feet as much right now) - just trying to keep busy as I can. I've started doing a bit of cycling and a few bodyweight exercises, but I…
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OK I think I fixed the picture now, soyou should see it (that was embarrassing for an I.T student!) My goals, I guess are to mainly get rid of this little pot belly and love handles that I'm currently rocking! A couple more pounds off would be nice too. I've already lost maybe about 10 in the past month or so, but I was…
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it doesn't matter whether you eat little and often, or 3 big meals a day.... or whatever...... just do whatever works best for you. whats more important is that you stick to your calorie goal and log accurately! you also need to log your exercise accurately and eat back the calories - but most people suggest only eating 50…
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oh - ok cool, another new thing I have learned! :) which is probably why potassium levels read low to nil for most days then!
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well the day before (Friday - accurate logging) I only have 947 grams (?) of salt out of a possible 2700 - so I'm guessing that ain't all that great! incidentally I was 286 under on calories 84 under on carbs and 18 under on fat that day too! :s
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also, another quick point... when you log exercise and say it adds on 200 calories (for example) ....... presumably your fat, carbs, protein allowances do not increase to reflect this change..... so what happens there?
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you can find it if you click on reports at the top and use the drop down menu to see it
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ok cool, that's good, I didn't know you could calculate calories in such a linear fashion!
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ok that's good to know thank you for your answer!
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PS, I have just logged in 250ml of skimmed milk, 88 calories, and 0.2g of fat.... So how does the calculation of 6g fat = 54 cals work?
