Thunderfan66 Member

I'm 36 so not far off from you!

Sleeping is an issue for me....I average about 6 hours a night during the week and I never sleep through.

I don't exactly count calories, but a typical work day would go something like this: Breakfast - 2 scrambled eggs with 1/2 cup milk,1 grilled tomato and 5-6 grilled mushrooms. Snack - Carrot and capsicum sticks with hummus dip Lunch - Salad with 80-100g of chicken Snack - Apple and a protein bar Dinner - 300g of vegies…

Definitely after weight loss at the moment. I have put on a few kgs after an indulgent holiday, and I just want to get it off! Once I have lost some weight I'm happy to go more for strength, fitness, toning, etc. So I guess for the next 6 weeks or so I want to focus on losing fat, and then I can change it up after that if…

Anyone?

So, for the last month I have been incorporating back squats, deadlifts, bent over rows, bench press and planks into my weights routines. Sometimes I do them twice a week, sometimes once, but I have to thank you guys for your suggestions because I think they have really helped. I have even had a friend say to me how toned…

I have one of those two and I have never been able to get rid of it. Even when I got down to my lowest weight a couple of years ago, it was still there. It was like I lost from the "inside" if that makes any sense! The rolls didn't disappear, they just got closer to my body! I am pretty much resigned to always having it…

Whenever I eat low carb I can control my hunger better. On the weekend I decided to add some carbs in, as I had done three weeks with hardly any. I had a bread roll, a couple of bowls of cereal and a few other bits and pieces over the course of the weekend, and I was ravenous....it was like I had hollow legs! Back to no…

Patience.....I don't have time! I need to get off at least 3kg in the next 6 weeks for an event! I thought my goal was quite achievable - when I started I had 9 weeks to lose the 3kg, but as I haven't lost anything 3 weeks in, it's very annoying! Everyone keeps saying to me, "Oh you're so active, you'll burn it off in no…

Thanks, I have been on the weight loss journey for about 4 years myself......at first I lost easily (as most people do I guess) and then my weight stabilized, then I lost a bit more and hit my lowest weight. Since then my weight has slowly been creeping up and I am finding it even more difficult to lose each time. I'm…

Does that mean sort of resting the bar in the curves of your fingers, rather than across the palm? That is what I am doing (resting it in the fingers), I try to hold the bar fairly loosely. Thanks for all the answers everyone.

Thanks for all the advice. I went to the gym this morning before I read the latest replies, and I had a go on the exercise bike. I did 30 seconds flat out as hard as I could go and then 30 seconds of extremely slow pedalling, and I did that for a total of 10 mins. However I wasn't changing the resistance level, so maybe I…

Thanks everyone. I guess what I'm doing at the moment would be more classed as intervals then....I don't think my run would be classed as an all out sprint, but I am working on increasing the speed. At the moment I'm walking at 7kmph, and the running starts off at 13kmph, and I try to up the speed by .5km towards the end…

Well, I just meant go into the gym and do my own weights routine or cardio, as opposed to a class.

Thanks for those!

What is a back squat?

OK I readjusted the calculations according to what you said above, and I came out with a TDEG of 1791, which seems more realistic to me. That is taking into account the exercise isn't it? So if I exercise, I aim for 1791. If I don't, I eat a bit less and if I do extra I eat a bit more? Is that right?

Hmmmm....maybe I have made some mistakes along the line. I exercise every day, but not 650 calories worth! (I wouldn't think so anyway!). I don't have a heart rate monitor or anything like that, so I can only really go on the estimates available, and I would estimate 300cals per day, except on weight lifting days. My…

Yep, I did the body fat calc using measurements and the activity calculator honestly on the spreadsheet. It gave me an average of 25.29%BF, BMR of 1419, TDEE of 2426 and TDEG of 2102. When I set the MFP it gave me 1200 - I put in my current weight, my goal weight and my activity level, and that's what it gave back. I'm not…

Nice work - well done! But still so confused about what I should be eating to lose weight! MFP recommends 1200, a dietician recommended 1350, someone else said 1700 and this spreadsheet recommended 2160 or so.....argh!

Thanks everyone. I have already checked out the website and there are no calorie counts available. The menu is a set menu with some choices, so I'm thinking for entree to have vegetable pasta, as opposed to fried cheese! Then for mains apparently we have a choice of 5 dishes - chicken, steak, veal, salmon or vegetarian,…

Thanks for that! that's more than I thought I would get, so I'm happy with that. I will make a concerted effort to log everything properly over the next few weeks and see how I go.

This could be what I need too.

Height = 170cm Weight = 65kg Age = 35 Activity Level = job as a teacher (light activity), plus exercise in a week = 1x yoga class (1.5 hours), 2x dance classes (1.25 hours each), 2x weight training sessions (45mins), 1x 5km run, 1x 30 min interval running

Yes I haven't been logging very long and I know I haven't done weekends. I'd just like some idea of what kind of calorie intake I should be aiming for, considering my current situation. I find I "eat well" during the week, but get really hungry by the end of the week...does that mean I'm not eating enough?? People say aim…

It is interesting reading about sleep...maybe this is my problem too. I am struggling to lose weight and I usually sleep 5-6 hours a night and it is always broken sleep....I get up at least twice to go to the toilet or get a drink during the night. I always feel tired and by Thursday/Friday I feel exhausted, yet this…

Hmm...activity level has been pretty well the same but I haven't been tracking calories consistently.....I would say as an average that I eat about 1200-1500 during the week, a bit more on weekends and I haven't lost anything for a while.

I've heard of it but I don't know if I believe it....I take magnesium tablets everyday and I still have a good chocolate craving at least once a week.

Thanks for that!

What would be an example of HIIT with weights?