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christibam - thanks for sharing your story and your pics. :flowerforyou: Well done to you for transforming yourself and doing it in a way that can inspire the rest of us to carry on - nothing extreme, just discipline and sticking to your guns. You're amazing!

Great story and fabulous after pics... You're amazing!

I had a laparoscopic hysterecomy on 21/12/12. I feel "ridiculously good" - by which I mean everyone who see's me can't believe how good I look! But I also think I'm in the minority as far as how I'm feeling so I'm trying to be cautious. So far I have restricted myself to shortish walks (between 1.2 and 1 1/2 km at a time)…

I'd never heard of it but now I'm glad I have - thanks :-)

I'm about to start 3 weeks of 14 hours a day of work, 6 days a week. I have NO IDEA how I'm going to fit exercise in, but I know I either have to find a way to do so, OR I need to restrict my food intake because I am NOT throwing away all the effort and success I've achieved so far this year. You say you've lost 14 pounds…

Good for you Greg...!

Awesome progress.... keep it up!

There are many things that tempt me but KFC is not one of them.. Just pretend it doesn't exist.

Does regular = underhand? I've been doing it overhand so far. I've gone from 27 kgs (mid August) to 71 kgs (yesterday) - maybe slow to some but I'm fairly chuffed with the progress. But I'm starting to feel the need for gloves or something because the metal hurts my hands - am I being a wuss?

Define "heavy" ;-) ? I don't have a structured program but I have increased my bench presses to 42kgs and my deadlifts to 71 kgs. Also do some leg extensions and some lat work. As I say, not a structured program but its definitely heavier than it was about 2 months ago when I first started..

I haven't had any of the weird things that a few posters have mentioned :noway: but I have recently unfriended a few people because no matter HOW often I made supportive comments to them, they never (or in the one person's case only once in over 2 months) BOTHERED to support me. So I figured why waste my energy on them.…

I'm not one for following recipes but I do love my own mac cheese dish and this has given me the idea that adding a bunch of brocolli (and maybe even some cauliflower too) may help with the calorie count! So thanks for this thread :smile:

heybales - one "real" tweak I'd love is a metric version of the bodyfat tool :-)

Only (teeny tiny point) that some sentences don't seem complete - a wrapping thing or such because if you click on the cell itself the sentence is all there. Example: PAS level 3 description (HRM tab). Really not significant but if you're looking for work.... ;-)

Sure you didn't have it set for kilograms?

Another Tongan here.. :-(

One of the things that makes logical sense to me on your spreadsheet is how the PAR number influences the VO2max, compared to the Polar (mine anyway) there is much less flexibility and the options lead to enormous extremes. For example: if I tell my Polar I have a low activity level then it gives me my fitness result as…

As an interesting point since I started comparing my HRM burns with your spreadsheet, my Polar F11 tells me my burn is EVEN LESS than the spreadsheet's "current VO2max" figure (which is of course less than the study-related figure). For example, having input the same weight, height, age and VO2max (21) settings on the HRM…

I believe (my 0.02$ worth) the main argument about not logging strength training calories comes from the system not being able to give you a number to use (seeing as there is no way to account for the huge variability of how many reps, how heavy the weights etc). I've also read that HRMs are not very accurate when it comes…

For activity level: I have been using lightly active for the last month and that might be part of my problem. The more I think of it, the more I think sedentary is the correct setting for me: my job literally is watching TV / computer screens. I checked out your HRM tab and if I use PAS level 4 then it makes a difference…

When you ask if the estimated BF% is close, I assume you are referring to the two values on the spreadsheet ie the US Navy version and the Covert Bailey version? No, the difference is more than 5% - its 13%. Determining calories burned is via HRM - Polar F11. Its own VO2max (Fitness test) gets really weird results - in…

Hi. I've now downloaded version 3 but with either version I am not looking at the TDEE figures, only the BMR. This is because, as you put it on the MFP tweak tab, my workouts are "iffy or irregular". So other than inputting my stats into the BMR/TDEE tab (and now using its BF calculator) I stay away from the rest of that…

Heybales - help please. I have set my MFP settings acording to your spreadsheet, using the Katch-McArdle figure (1606) as my daily goal and where relevant eating back most of my exercise calories. But I have been stuck now for over a month, both scale and now tape measure as well. Seeing as my BF % is high (over 40 using…

I worked out today I've lost around 40 cm so far (between waist, hips, thighs etc).. Just as meaningful as the almost 20 kgs for the year. :-)

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I hadn't noticed the relative quantities - thanks for pointing it out. The initial recommended does on the ones I bought is double the maintenance so I'm getting enough in for now and since I got a 2 pack for the price of 1 the cost is ok but you're right in the long run it may work out more - when this lot is finish I may…

I'm way too far away from you for the offer of the packages to be worth considering (the postage would be way too expensive!) but I have to commend you for you amazing transformation - your body is TOO DIE FOR! And the idea of paying it forward is really awesome too. So a huge kudos to you for everything and best wishes…

My sugars are pretty good (in my opinion) - and come mostly from fruit and vegetable with some grains (interesting that corn counts as a grain?) yarwell thats a great HDL!! Trish I certainly am adding more and more healthy foods and (just as important??) CUTTING OUT the really unhealthy stuff. Talk about sugars - in…

Hi again. I've done some more reading on the subject and came across a podcast featuring Chris Masterjohn (of cholesterol-and-health.com and the daily lipid blog: blog.cholesterol-and-health.com) . Complete transcript here: http://chriskresser.com/chris-masterjohn-on-cholesterol-and-heart-disease-part-3 The point mentioned…

I wasn't aware of this point - I just don't believe statins are good - period! But good additional ammo!