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Okay. I've read the study. All of it. What the authors point out: - BMI is not useful; it fails to notice 50% of people who have obesity (defined by body fat % >25 (male) or >30 (female) - Study was done using body fat % calculated by hydrostatic weighing, or seven skinfold measures. (correlation >0.9 for people who had…
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I've posted the abstract with methods of measuring, and the link to the original article, a few posts above.
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The comment by "Amy Thompson, of the British Heart Foundation," saying, "these studies remind us that it is not always your weight that's important, but where you carry fat and also how it affects your health and fitness. "It is particularly important to be aware of your weight if you are carrying excess fat around your…
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BMI is not used by the article. (And while I agree it's not useful on a person-by-person basis, with the examples of bodybuilders and athletes mentioned above, not many people end up being athletes or bodybuilders and NOT KNOWING IT -- i.e. BMI can be a tool for screening a population that really doesn't know whether it's…
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I click the link for MyFitnessPal and see things like this posted on my 'wall': Macacadopai burned 1155 calories doing 107 minutes of "Gym: Treadmill, weights, elliptical" THAT motivates me :)
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A set of calipers is cheaper and much more accurate if you want to track body fat changes.
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No real reason why you should hit a plateau. Keep eating healthily and exercising (and EAT the calories you exercise; at your weight I don't think you can afford not to) and although the weight loss will probably slow, there's no particular reason why it should stop.
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Divide by 2.5. Remember there are 1000mg in a gram.
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You could get a new free email address. I'd suggest Gmail but there are lots of alternatives.
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If you start with zero rather than with your BMR, you can calculate your total daily energy expenditure that way, adding up sleeping, walking, making breakfast, brushing teeth calorie expenditure, etc. It's generally easier for most of us to get the "existing in a coma" BMR calculation and multiply by 1.2 to give an…
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You could set your weight to 30lbs higher than it is, add the exercise as cycling at the appropriate speed, and then change your weight back to its correct level. Or just ignore it as it'll be a small bonus to your weight loss. I don't think it'll be a huge amount.
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Espero que encuentres a alguien. Si estás buscando a "amigos" aquí en MFP, puedes agregarme. Buena suerte con todo. Jonathan.
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I'm reasonably happy with how I look EXCEPT my waist - I really would like to take off 2-3 inches and have some visible abs. 10% body fat is a vague target I have too, but the online calculators are wildly different so I think I'll spend £20 on some calipers and measure it properly). So - Newfiedan - are you saying it's…
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The protein level set by MFP is very conservative. You can probably double it and that would be a better goal. And if you do eat too much you'll just convert it to fat stores (just like you would with any other excess calories).
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But they're actually horrendously inaccurate. They're so dependent on hydration, which fluctuates all day every day, that the readings can change hugely. I'm about to buy a set of calipers for that reason. They only cost about £10-20.
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I'm not 100% sure on this, but I suspect that you MFP calories for running are fairly accurate. It requires a fairly fixed amount of energy to move a 130lb weight a fixed number of miles (you'll notice that a 2 hour walk at 2.5mph burns the same as a 1 hour walk at 5mph) (although obviously if you do a 2-hour walk you need…
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Great post!
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700 calories in 30 minutes sounds crazily high to me. Working HARD I manage to burn 250 calories in 15 minutes on elliptical and treadmill, or 82 in 5 minutes on the rowing machine. That's 1000/hour, and my heart rate fluctuates 80-90% max. I'm a 74kg just-about-fit guy. I'd be surprised if someone could work 1.4 times…
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But the weight of your breakfast food+fluid isn't *your* weight. Ideally we all just want a "how much fat am I carrying" measurement but that's not easy so we have to assume that changes in scale weight are a good indication of changes in fat-weight. There are obviously lots of flaws in that assumption, but the more we can…
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Wake up, empty bladder and bowels, and weigh. Or abandon the scales and just measure waist every couple of weeks.
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See if they gym has instructors who will do a review session with you and suggest changes to your routine. Both the treadmill and elliptical machine will probably have different programs, the names will probably depend on the brand of machine but try varying some "hill" or "interval" type of settings, increase resistance,…
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If your calculated calorie intake for sensible weight loss is 1200kcal/day, and you're exercising around 500kcal/day, you need to be eating a TOTAL of around 1700kcal/day to prevent your body slowly reducing its metabolic rate to compensate for you effectively starving it. Your body is probably recognizing the lack of…
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Put your alarm clock on the other side of the room so you physically can't silence it without getting out of the bed.
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Hi from Chester! Feel free to add me as a friend.
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Great work! And remember that the measuring tape is much more important than the scales. You may find there are times that the scales stand still but you've lost half an inch or more from the waist.
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If you set your profile settings so everyone can see your food diary, I expect you'll find people can give some good targeted advice. It's a bit difficult if we don't really have an idea what you're eating and how much of it. Wishing you all the best. Jonathan.
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Thanks for the suggestion on protein.
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Good post. Any suggestions on protein intake % for 500-kcal-per-day-deficit-for-weight-loss-while-doing-weights-2-or-3-times-a-week-to-build-muscle? (or at least maintain muscle, but I'm pretty sure I'm building it)
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So on the stairclimber, you feel it's harder work, you end up much more sweaty and "worked feeling", and it shows you've burnt more calories. What's unusual there? You could always set the elliptical to a higher resistance and run faster.
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From what I've read, although the % of fat burnt in high-intensity exercise is lower than in low-intensity exercise, the TOTAL calories of fat burnt will be higher in high-intensity exercise. E.g. (made-up numbers): 30 mins low-intensity. HR 65%max. kcal burnt 150. kcal from fat 100 (75%) 30 mins high-intensity. HR 85%max.…