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Just like to say that I've lost almost 4 stone since I made this topic. I lost 3 stone in a really quick space of time and have looked pretty slim for a while now. My weight loss is a lot slower at the moment but I'm still losing usually a couple of lb per week maybe a bit less. I took advice from posters on…

Well, after months of failing miserably at weight loss I seem to be getting somewhere finally. Since adopting a 40/30/30 (p/c/f) plan on MFP each day I seem to be losing a pound a day now. I've been losing a pound a day for the last 3 or 4 days. In fact I was 2 lb lighter today than yesterday morning's weigh in. I'm also…

What I've been doing on the treadmill is cycles of 4 minutes of running at 6mph and 1 min of walking. Originally I did this for 20 minutes, now I can do 30 minutes. Today given I've been doing this a wee while I thought my fitness would be up and I could maybe do 15 or 20 minutes without slowing down but by the 10 min mark…

I just got back into running in the past month or 2. I am really struggling to lose weight and need to step things up

so what the heck should I do.

According to online calculators my maintenance calories per day are well over 3000 so you are speaking rubbish. For very active my calories are > 4000 Today I will be having 1529 in total. Why do I bother? I don't know

And when I ate crap all the time and binged on alcohol in my student days I mantained the exact same damn weight, if not slimmer, so what really is my maintenance weight...........Whether I have 4000 calories a day or 1500 it makes bugger all difference!

What? My maintenance calories are a hell of a lot higher than 1900. Are you being serious? I'm 276lb and you expect me to eat less than 1900 calories a day? Oh dear...I would probably collapse if I ate less.

I'll do resistance/weights about 3 times a week (sit ups, push ups ups, tricep extensions, bicep curls, dumbbell bench press, Dumbbell shoulder presses - I don't do anything on my back as I'm prone to lower back pain). I'll go on the treadmill a few times a week. I'm trying to build up to running for 30 minutes at 6mph…

According to MFP, I eat on average about 1900 calories or so per day (including any drinks - I make sure to include EVERYTHING). I also exercise most days (weights and cardio), so often my net calories can be like 1400 or less/more. Yet despite doing this for months, I don't appear to have lost a single pound. I weigh…

I'm still none the wiser about what I'm getting wrong. Today I have had 1928 calories, also increased my protein. I won't have anything more today of calorific content. Yet I've been doing this for months and still weigh the best part of 20 stone.... I basically have almost half my TDEE and I don't buy that I'm in…

Could you guys not PM each other or something

I'm building up to running for 30 mins at 6mph and will then try do an hour. I will go back to HIIT later perhaps. The way it seems at the moment, I could spend all day on the treadmill and I wouldn't lose any weight. My net calories are low

can anyone help with the above?

According to fitness frog my TDEE is 3990. Going by what you suggest there, I would have to eat well over 3000 calories, which I honestly would struggle to do and really wouldn't want to do. To give you an idea, today according to MFP (and I've been careful to add every little thing accurately) I have had 1823 calories in…

It's percentages/ratios not quantities!

I'm going with 40 protein/30 carbs/30 fat

Surely if I adhere to the app I should be having the correct calorific intake>? Otherwise there's no point in it

So 40/30/30 (P/C/F) is what you would recommend for someone ultimately looking to lose a lot of fat, who has been struggling massively and is near enough approaching the end of their tether!! ?? As I said above, I'm wanting to gain muscle, but losing fat and looking slimmer is very much the main thing.

It's telling me with the ratios I've put in to have 43g fat per day. 40/40/20 is something I was recommended on another forum. I should add that losing fat is more important to me just now than putting on muscle, far more important. Conversely, I understand that putting on muscle increases your metabolism and helps lose…

I think I will give 40/40/20 (p/c/f) a try. I will see how I get on. Today for this it is showing that I have gone quite a bit over my fat goal and I've only had about half the protein plus low on carbs a bit too

I'll try 40/30/30 - can I trust the app and not really have to worry about much else? Will it calculate accurately how much protein I should be having? Also, I can't see anywhere in the app where I can change these settings but I'll look just now. What I really don't want to happen, is for me to suddenly gain weight…

Can you not walk faster? You're walking a very long time at a very slow speed and it seems pretty much a waste of time

I could find plenty evidence to suggest the contrary. What you are saying goes against most modern research. If you stop eating, your metabolism slows down to conserve energy, it's that simple.

It most definitely is real. I have been crash dieting for months and have barely lost a pound. I've been eating 2 modest, healthy meals a day for months with no snacking and no eating after 6pm for ages. Exercising a lot too but no weight loss. Been told it's because I'm not having enough calories and protein.