Lyns180 Member

Hi, Firstly, well done on your weight loss so far! Second, I'm no expert by any means, but looking at your diary, could it be dehydration? I see a lot of coffee but only like 2/3 cups of water?

Thanks all for your help and advice. I've decided to try 1776 for the next month and see what results I get, I also took my pics and measurements last night to track those too. 1776 is based on sedentary and TDEE-20%. This still gives me room to cut more if 1776 doesn't work for me.

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Thank you

So, if I change to sedentary. My TDEE-20% is 1776. TDEE-25% is 1665. Which should I go for??

1900 is my TDEE- 25%. My BMR is 1850 and my TDEE is 2544. What would you suggest??

That's what I changed mine too when I changed my calorie goal.

Given all these replies, I've changed my activity level to lightly active. I've also changed my daily calorie goal to 1900. I'm not sure I'll hit this every day, but my plan is to use the extra calories to have more filling, healthy meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Thanks for your help :)

1800 calories a day would take me to TDEE-28%. Is this okay??

I put it as sedentary as I have a desk job, other than that I walk the dog for about 30mins a day and do a 1hr boxercise class per week. If I change it to lightly active my TDEE-20% is 2035. TDEE-25% is 1908. This seems an awful lot?? Especially as MFP calculations have me at 1470 per day plus exercise calories (normally…

According to Scooby and fitness frog, my BMR is 1850. My calorie goal on MFP is 1470.

Thank you, I think if I was to weigh in every day I'd dement myself lol. I think I'll give it another week or two and see if it sorts itself out, if not I'll reassess. Definitely pay more attention to measuring etc.

Thank you

Thanks. Should that total be including exercise calories then, ie, not eating extra when earned through exercise

Thank you. The days I skip are normally at weekends when I'm out first thing and due to lack of planning/organisation have opted to skip rather than get something 'bad' from the shop/café, it's not very often.

Thanks all. I think I might stick with what I'm doing until the end of the month and see if it changes any. If not, I'll have to rethink things.

Thanks for all the tips :)

Thanks Nicole. I weigh myself every Monday morning, same scales in the same spot, right after my morning pee before I get ready for work, I'm quite particular about it haha

Thanks Mabel :)

Thanks Nicole.

I can't see any changes whatsoever. I feel better in myself and my skin is a little better from cutting out the soda and drinking lots more water but that's it. I just don't get it. When I've tried diets in the past I've always lost straight away, even with my bad habits and no exercise back then. In the past few months…

Thank you :)

The dog walking is logged via Run Keeper, I've synced it to MFP. I just assumed that it was worked out on how long it took to walk the distance, never actually thought about the toilet stops. The sits ups etc, we do 3 minute rounds of sit ups, two rounds with the gloves and two rounds with the pads, so 12minutes all in, I…

Thanks, I'll have a look for them at the shops tonight :-) Acccording to the Scooby site and the fitness frog site, my TDEE is 2200. Both of these are with desk job, no exercise as the activity level. If I put it to lightly active (30min walk with dog each day plus boxercise once a week) it jumps to 2544. Could the problem…

I do measure my potatoes and things for dinner. At work I use a teaspoon to measure my spread/jam. I used to be a total pepsi max addict, it was the only thing I drank, I've now cut this out completely, the only time I have had soda/fizzy juice is when I've been out for dinner (twice in three weeks, family celebrations). I…

I'm 5ft 3. I tend to have sweeteners in my tea at work, and sugar in my cuppa at night at home. I don't have a chocolate biscuit for breakfast, I had it as part of my breakfast on a few occasions, not everyday. I know it's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than it used to be.

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I think I might try for 1600 a day, but on a Thursday (boxercise day) know that I can eat probably closer to 2000 as I need more energy that day.

Thanks guys. From a rough calculation, putting it as sedentary and eating my exercise calories works out pretty much the same per day as lightly active, apart from the boxercise day.