Paul_Collyer Member

Most days, but not after a big night out as alcohol causes huge fluctuations ;-)

A thread from the Garmin forums about their change to resting calories, which seems to break the MyFitnessPal link. https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?350371-Random-change-in-resting-calories

I got a Garmin 920XT watch for Xmas 14. Brilliant device in it's own right. With a Heart Rate Monitor I can accurately record runs, cycling, swimming even skiing and also it counts steps and measures sleep. I wear it all day around. However, the Garmin Connect side is permanently bugged, and this knocks onto My Fitness…

Think I did an 18, a 19 and a 20 last time. Was basically running 3 times a week, plus a gym visit, plus a bit of cycling. One long, one race tempo, and one interval session. Worked a treat, came in just under my target time on the day, with the help of about 11 gels along the way :smile:

Btw, we just bought a spiralizer - have done Butternut squash noodles and carbonara so far. It's excellent!

I am doing 30 carb, 25 protein and 45 fat. Kind of arrived at it by trial and error having been doing MFP since 2012. Gives me enough to get my exercise in and also seems to result in faster weight loss without doing anything too radical diet wise. Feel free to follow etc.

Tea, milk, stevia. Lovely.

About 25%....ideally get closer to 30 over the coming months.....

Weigh yourself every day, or most days, and track the trend. Simple!

Calories, % macros, fibre and sugar.

Fortunately you can via the webpage but not the app. Which is good as someone in the UK entered loads and loads of M&S food without filling in sugar content! ;-)

Plateaus happen you need to keep the faith. However...... Make sure your activity calories are not overestimated. I did this last year training for a marathon, by using the exaggerated Strava numbers, and didn't really lose much. I am not convinced by some of the MFP database calorie burn estimates either. Safest is to use…

Good luck with this. For me, I got to a reasonable weight ( 85kg, so BMI in overweight not obese category ) first and then just jumped into a 5k parkrun race. And from then got the bug..... Oh and yes get the right shoes that's a must.

My twopenneth: Stuff like this does make me wonder http://live.smashthefat.com/why-i-didnt-get-fat/ Now I know the water weight thing but I doubt that can account for more than a certain % of body weight so over a week maybe but not convinced it's a factor beyond that. Plus I know people who have tried LCHF and talked…

Generally per week: - 1 long run. Start at around 20km and work up to ~32km by around 3-4 weeks before the marathon. Work on nutrition and hydration strategies with these. - 1 tempo run. Try to run at target marathon pace. Start at ~10km work up to ~18km. - 1 interval session. I am using 800m intervals with 400m…

Water weight. Will normalize after a week or two.....just keep doing what you are doing.

I find if you keep it low, without compromising your fruit and veg intake of course, then it does help the process to some degree. At least for me.

http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/why-the-who-advises-you-to-reduce-sugar-consumption/?utm_source=mfp&utm_medium=Facebook

Try to get a high proportion of your sugars from fresh fruit and veg and try to keep your fibre intake as close to your sugar intake as possible. IMHO.

One other thing - I found the initial water loss morale boost occurred for me when I started this process, and that was nowhere near low carb. I think generally people lose water to some degree when they start a diet and eat less regardless of the make up of it.

Well I am not so sure low carb does always equal low calorie. A gram of fat is more than 2x a gram of carb.....so if you go eg high fat low carb chances are you will eat a lot of calories. For example the people I know who have eaten low carb and lost weight always talked about how great it was to feast on stuff like…

I go 40% fat, 35% carb and 25% protein. Works great for me; nice happy medium that suits my tastes in food. Not too worried about which fats I eat although I do try to eat a few avocados a week.

Beer and curry with bread and rice. Just add 2000 Quick calories to MFP... Well that's what I did last night ;-)

Every time someone tries to discuss low carb diets I see certain people jump in like clockwork. Can't speak for everyone but my take is: - Low carb diets do seem to be effective for a quicker weight loss. Whether that is due to lower calories I am not sure, as replacing carbs with fat will eat up the calories fast. -…

Every day unless had a lot of alcohol the night before or a binge. Log each time, and sad as it is I now keep a spreadsheet that tracks the trends and will let me know if things are going pear shaped! My reasoning is if you weigh in many days apart you may hit a fluctuation which you will not be able to put into context…

Seems to work best for me eating about 30-40% of my calories from carbs....in terms of both weight loss as well as controlling hunger. And this seems to be enough to fuel around 40k of running each week plus some cycling, squash, gym etc.

Fage full fat all the way. Fantastic with fresh fruit, and nice balance of protein, fat and carb.

Lost about 26kg since September 2012. Was 100kg when I started. Two main phases: Start to June 2013 around 20kg using fairly modest deficit only. Strict tracking. Then used MFP on and off for a year or so as needed. Stayed roughly between 78-82kg, trained hard for various races from 5km up to my first marathon. September…

Good old Porridge made with milk, and served with fruit. Fantastic.

We learn so much from this process it should be possible to stop tracking down the line. I already have done it for a couple of summers without too many problems. At least nothing a month of tracking in the autumn couldn't put right :=)