MandaLeigh123 Member

Thanks for some feedback everyone! I had been trying to research online, but it's honestly just pretty overwhelming. There are a ton on the market and finding reliable information is pretty tough. I do know a lot of people use cofffee, but I can't imagine drinking a cup of black coffee before weight lifting/cardio session.…

Seems kind of hard to estimate from that information.... but I will try. Body Pump: 60 minutes plus 20 minutes HITT Spin: 45 minutes (guessing there) but you only do that sometimes Weightlifting: for how long? circuit training? heavy lifting with rests between sets? Work: I would start trying to keep track of your…

Perfect! Thank you. I'm ready to get back to a cut after three months doing a metabolic reset. I needed those three months off more than I realized. I'm coming back into this cut with a stronger sense of what my goals are and a better relationship with food.

Yeah, it took me a minute yesterday to figure out the sheet but I got :) I do the figures on the top then plug them into the bottom just to see. It's a cool sheet. Thx! Weights: Usually going to almost failure so will log under that. Every once in awhile if I'm in a rush, I'll do circuits just so that I can get the…

Also, the FitBit height adjustment it gives me is 72.6 inches instead of my height of 67. So I'll just plug it back in as 6 feet tall and see how that goes. I did the first day on the sheet. Exercise calories 541. Likely TDEE 2308. Likely TDEG 2062. Deficit amount 246. Deficit % 10.66. I think I got it right.

Side Note Regarding my profile picture: My husband and I bought like.... 2,500 vinyl records a couple of weeks ago for $28. We had to buy them without sorting through them, so I've been finding all sorts of funny stuff in there. I'm going to start trying some of the aerobics records. I'll post pictures of the sleeve as my…

Okay, I do see it now-- I was looking at the wrong sheet. Mifflin BMR is 1414. Then my RMR pops us as 1,578. I went ahead and just did a body of 28% So I know you talk a lot about how unless circuit training, HR monitors inflate calories burned lifting weights and I understand why that would be. I need to enter something…

Haha! oops! Yes, I had entered a 0 in the handheld body fat % cell.... so 0% body fat... um, yeah right! "There is your Cunningham RMR and Katch BMR based on your weight and BF% you entered on Simple Setup tab. RMR isn't much more than BMR really, but since it's for 2 x as long (16 hrs awake to 8 hrs asleep avg), it…

I don't think you're losing your mind, haha! This happens a lot and I think sometimes people forget to change the gender up and the top from male to female? That's my only guess as to why the numbers change. It's happened to me before too and it was because I had forgot to change the gender. It ended up working out in my…

great job!

When I used your spreadsheet for body fat % based on measurements this is what I get (just did a copy and paste): 29.80 U.S. Navy Circumference Method 29.25 Covert Bailey "Fit or Fat" book Method 19.68 Average body fat % of the two to four methods I didn't do the skinfold. I thought about buying some calipers, but I…

Ooooo.... this sliding scale sheet is very cool! I'll start with it tomorrow. Today I left my FitBit at home on accident and went and walked my lap dog slowly around the park.

I don't know how calculate RMR accurately and my body % numbers don't seem accurate. I will caculate again based on measurements but they didn't seem right. If either body % fat test or RMR test cost money, that's out of the question. Just not in my budget. Also, I can't recall how you figured out to adjust my height to…

I guess I just posted these pictures partly because I wanted to say/show... that everyone has different goals. Some people's goal are just to get into a certain BMI category. Other peoples are to be able "play with their grandkids". Some people have a goal weight. Some people like me, get chastised a lot for wanting to…

Before and after pic? Nope. These pictures were taken on the same day.

AH! It's me in my underpants! This was... two weeks ago. Wanna looked more toned in my underpants! Also, truth of the matter is that the less I weigh, the less pain I have with my joint condition (hyper mobile joint syndrome/joint hypermobility). Not only weighing less helps, but building strong muscles to hold my joints…

pic1: Me in May 2012 when I ran marathon pic2: Me now 30lbs lighter

I'll take a spreadsheet and give that a look! I love spreadsheets. I made my own spreadsheet to keep track of all of my physical therapy so I can look for trends related to pain/medicine/sleep/etc. Love charts! I was up late last night thinking and re-thinking things, trying to decide whether or not I wanted to go back to…

Sometimes it's the way the wood or floor bends under the scale.

I had a defecit of 1,245 total. My calories were between 1770 and 2700 per day. Some days no defecit on sedentary days and active days I would take a defecit between 5-20% after adding back in exercise calories.

Just be more free form with your training schedule. Instead of saying to yourself that you will workout on certain days, make a goal of a certain amount of times per week. Lots of people have varying schedules and do it this way :) If you work 3 days, then you have 4 days off so that's great.

After a couple of months going and figuring things out, I actually started talking to the bros in the gym. Getting feedback on my form and asking for a spot on my bench. I was going to my uni gym, and the young guys there seemed happy to help. When I go to Crunch, there are tons of people there... people are still…

Hi guys! New to the group but have been using MFP daily since August 2014 and on and off for years. 34yo and looking to slim down without losing too much of muscle I've built up strength training. I've been at maintenance the past 3 months giving my metabolism a chance to recover from a very low calorie diet, and I just…

Woo hoo! I'm singing with my LGBTQ+ choir in the pride parade on Sunday. I can't wait. It's my second year marching and its an amazing experience.

that's aweesome! I can't really give advice but am interesetd to hear what people say :smiley:

When I think of density, I always compare.... like lead the size of a brick and styrofoam the size of balloon. The lead brick is smaller yet much heavier than the balloon shaped styrofoam. So yeah, the lead brick (muscle) is more dense than the styrofoam (fat). Smaller yet heavier. I know you get that now, but just in case…

Think of it as water gained instead of weight gained when the scale goes up 1-3 pounds in a couple of days. Helped me to think of that way when I was in the beginning of the process

Glad to help! It can be a real struggle mentally upping your calories after years of bad diet habits but just take it one day at a time. You're amazingly active in retirement and that inspires me!

This explains it some: http://www.livestrong.com/article/416710-can-a-person-lose-inches-gain-weight/#page=1

Have you done a reset yet? Eaten at full TDEE with no caloric cut? How long were you eating lower cals before finding this group?