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A dietician should know better, really. Statistically most people do put weight back on, and statistically most people gain weight slowly throughout their lives, so as a broad sweep assumption at a population level it is not unreasonable. But you are not a population, you are an individual, and individuals can beat those…
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Are you trying to get exercise data into MFP or nutrition data into Garmin Connect? I've recently moved away from Garmin, but I never had a problem getting my workouts to sync into MFP. On the other hand, I gave up on trying to get the nutrition data into Garmin Connect. It just never seemed to work.
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I second Lietchi's comment about accuracy, for precisely the reason stated - the scales are extrapolating from three data points - height, weight and electrical impedance. There's a lot of assumptions and guesswork involved. Having said that, if the scales are accurate, 30:6 is an excellent fat:muscle loss ratio,…
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Yes, I "eat back" exercise calories. I have a weight loss goal that I believe is sustainable for me, and I don't try to lose weight faster by exercising - exercise is for fitness, not weight loss. I think it is in general a very bad idea to try to "bank" exercise calories. If exercising makes you extremely hungry because…
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I've just come back to MFP, and I'm sad to see that this group has died, just one post in nearly two years that nobody responded to. I may be forced to try to revive it. This thread's fun. I don't understand all the hate that Ariel gets, she's my fave. She is totally into it, she works hard in every video she's in, I don't…
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First day today! I've decided to get serious again. I'll probably aim for a full-on logging streak of around 100 days, not just token entries to keep the streak going.
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What evidence do you have that your BF is 33%? Body fat is notoriously difficult to measure, and you indicate in your comments that you haven't yet taken a measurement by a more reliable method. It would be unusual, though not impossible, for someone of your dimensions to have such a high body fat measurement, but I'd…
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I'm confused, do you object when people "spout woo" and claim that it's backed up by research, or do you insist that every post on MFP that mentions research should have a bibliography and be peer-reviewed?!
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People who deny that muscle weights more than fat really get my goat. OK, let's go for a run, you carry a gallon of muscle and I'll carry a gallon of fat. Let's see which one of us drops first! I'm not denying that it is often said in a way that is unhelpful or that demonstrates ignorance, but it is a scientific fact.
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I don't believe any of those things you say about IF, except maybe that you might live longer, but it's completely unfair to describe IF as a myth, just because some myths may have grown up around it. I say "may" because, to be honest, your post is the first time I've ever heard about half of those myths. IF works for…
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I'm pretty sure a doctor couldn't care less about a 3-week gap in a slow, steady reduction in weight for a morbidly obese patient. The important thing is what that patient will weigh in 5 years' time, not in 5 weeks' time.
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Well, you could use exercise to create a bigger calorie deficit, but it would be much easier to just eat even less. If I have a calorie goal of 1200, do a 400 calorie workout and eat 1600 calories. You do the same but eat 1200 calories. You will certainly lose weight faster, to the tune of almost 1lb/week. But in that…
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Under 22 minutes at my local weekly Parkrun 5k, with usually around 120 runners, would place you in the top 20, maybe higher depending on who turns up and whether they have a big race the next day. There's no such thing as a universally accepted "decent 5k time". I'm trying to break 20 minutes, which in my view will make…
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It's not Milton Keynes by any chance? Can't be too many halves that day. I'm doing the full.
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A bit late to the party, I know, but since you're from the UK I'll just plug High 5 gels. Apart from the gross banana flavour, I find them smooth and palatable and genuinely juicy (5%-ish real fruit juice). I use the originals, which are not isotonic, so I take them just before a water station. If you need isotonic gels,…
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I second the idea of getting a watch. I bought a Polar M400 in new condition (but unboxed) from eBay for £60, and it has only been off my wrist for charging and software updates ever since! I love it - running data, activity data and phone notifications. Polar data is a bit tricky to get into other web apps, but it does…
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Just ran my local Parkrun 5k - I do it most weeks, but usually with my 9-year-old son so not at full pace. I ran 20:42, which is the fastest I've run in over a year. This lets me know my marathon training is on target, anyway!
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It sounds like headphones would be a bad idea for you, even if they are allowed at your race. UKA has recently banned most kinds of headphones for races, and I imagine athletics unions in many other countries will have taken similar measures. Before I bought a running watch, I used to let Endomondo bark split times at me…
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Yes, if you just ate that in a day, you'd lose weight. Calories from McDonald's don't count double. I'm not saying you wouldn't be hungry most of the day, though.
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I agree with most of your post, but it isn't true that endurance athletes use fat stores more than the majority of the population. Endurance athletes spend a lot of their exercise time in the "fat burning zone", but that's because we spend a lot of time exercising and don't want to wear ourselves out. Also, we want to…
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Might be true, doesn't matter. Both your body and hers is constantly using fat for fuel or storing fat. If you take in less energy than you use up, you'll both lose weight. But to be honest, if I had halitosis and constipation, and couldn't eat most of the foods I enjoy, I'd look around for reasons to justify my suffering,…
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You have to run your own race; after all, you're only really racing yourself. For instance, the marathon I'm signed up for in May have changed energy drink supplier and they are now supplied in paper cups, rather than lidded bottles as previously. So I will ditch the energy drinks, stick to water (which still comes in a…
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Leaving aside the perplexing question of why anyone would be on MyFitnessPal who doesn't count calories, different strategies for losing weight are successful for different people. Not all of them include logging calories, though of course all of them do produce a sustainable calorie deficit.
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OK, I think we've all fished packaging out of the bin to scan it. But I don't go to great lengths to measure restaurant food, meals my wife made before I got home etc. After all, even if I get the ingredients exactly right, I don't know what it weighs. I'm usually pretty good at estimating these things, if the scales are…
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I went out way too fast the first time, having got a huge PB at 5k during the taper and naively assuming that meant I was fitter than I thought. On race day the clouds burnt off just as the race started and the temperature soared and I got calf cramps at 15 miles, basically because I'd got it completely wrong. The second…
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I am no gym bunny, but I definitely wouldn't go to the gym if it was 2 hrs away! I'm up at 5:30 for my morning run.
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Training for my 3rd marathon in May, and I might squeeze in a half in March as part of the schedule. 3rd marathon, but I crashed and burned on the first two, so I'm taking my training really slowly in terms of increasing mileage, and so far so good. After that, I'll drop down to 5k at my local Parkrun and try to finally…
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That's very generous of you. Muscle weighs more than fat = muscle is denser than fat. They mean exactly the same thing and neither expression is in the least bit ambiguous. I tend to stick to the latter, but only because I know some bonehead will take issue with me if I say the former. The astonishing thing is that so many…
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My favourite myth is that cardio makes you fat and lifting makes you lose weight. Of course, that's why world's strongest man Brian Shaw weighs 197kg, while Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion Mo Farah weighs 60kg.
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kingchimera31 - Yes, they're permanent. You could just make the labels refer to a time, but then that wouldn't tell you which meal it related to. Or you could have a night-shift breakfast and a regular breakfast and so on. There are 6 slots in total. Yes, the calories will average out. Whether or not you work shifts, it's…
