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I prefer to try to maintain without logging, it's good practice and ultimately it should be do-able over time. If things do creep up it's easy to pick up MFP again and get things back on track.

Personally I think it will accelerate it, based on my own experiences, but I don't think you need to go as far as an Atkins type diet if you have a decent and accurate deficit.

My experience is that weight loss rate is better when you pay more attention to macros once you get to a point where you are closer to your ideal weight. I recently reduced sugar and carbs and it has worked rather well so far.

Don't do it! Eliminate added sugar and eat less high GI carbs instead :)

I make sure I do a massive run, ie well over an hour, the day of or after the drinking.

You are 5'8 and less than 70 kilos, so its going to hard to lose weight. Your BMI is well below the overweight threshold. I am just over it and it's far harder to lose weight than when I was obese.

35 carb:40 fat:25 protein is working for me. And I am running between 30 and 50km a week. I make sure I get some of my carbs and most of my sugar from fresh fruit. I'm 173cm and around 77 kg, and eating around 1750kcal net a day on average.

I have moved to 35 carb, 40 fat and 25 protein since the summer and it's worked well. Also kept sugar to fruit and natural sources where possible. Typical meals: 200g Fruit and 100g Full Fat Greek yoghurt for breakfast Chicken breast on brown bread with an avocado for lunch Fresh fish with egg noodles and vegetables for…

2.2 is about right.

Summer 2012. 1) A rather horrible photo 2) A friend using MFP to lose 18kg 3) Encouragement from my better half to try it for myself!

Tip for adding step calories to MFP while the sync issue persists..... ....Go to MFP food section and add a negative quick calorie number to snacks or another meal. You should be able to roughly estimate what this should be from the working info on Garmin connect...... This avoids adding an exercise to MFP which is then…

Its painfully frustrating. May have to disconnect the two and add calories manually, but then you are unable to see your steps calories in GC as the calorie widget ( which is broken now anyway ) is inactive. A right mess. And I feel for others who had vivofit, 920 etc for Xmas and can't get the MFP side to work properly.

I'm not going to provide any links to studies as there are so many saying various things and I can only go on my own personal experience. But I feel cutting sugar and carbs and increasing fat intake has improved my weight loss rate. Essentially I think when you are obese you will lose fairly easily from pure CICO but I…

That is superb thanks :)

I've had 4 stints on MFP. Sept 12-June 13 - the biggest drop. Exercise consisted of walking an hour most days plus the odd game of squash until March when I took up running. Sept 13-Xmas 13 - slower drop. I got way too obsessed with silly stuff like protein drinks and also had too much of a deficit. March 14-July 14 -…

Are you guys doing keto counting calories? Eating at similar deficit to before? Just curious.

Fair point on the combination of sugar and fat - its undoubtedly a bad combination. In my case I find it easier these days to remain on the right side of my calorie count by upping fat intake and reducing carb, albeit not that dramatically. I think sugar for some people tends to be a little like alcohol - empty calories…

Well, given a choice between a high fat treat and a high sugar one I'd take the former, at least in terms of health. While I agree overall calorie consumption is a reliable weight loss/gain method you will see plenty of people losing weight from a non calorie based high fat diet but very few from a high sugar one. I've…

Sweet potato fries are ace. You won't get fat eating those every so often. Its the sugary stuff that does the most harm.

I think its ok for running, from what I remember. But then some stuff like "stretching" gives numbers that just aren't remotely born out when using a HRM, and I think walking is overestimated too. That said, I used the MFP database exclusively for my first 9 months on MFP and lost 20kg, using a relatively small calorie…

I wouldn't worry, as long as your sugar intake is relatively controlled. In fact I have lost quicker recently since increasing fat intake and dropping sugar.

- Find the right calorie deficit for your situation. Trick is to minimise hunger and temptation and also provide your body with the nutrients it needs, while being below your maintenance burn. - Make good food choices beyond calories.....it will also make your calories go further. Keep your sugar target low and within that…

Well according to my BMI of 26 or so, and fat % of 22% ish, I am overweight. Yet I can run a marathon sub 4 hours, run a half sub 1'45 and a 10k in sub 45' with an estimated VO2 max of 57. So yes, I reckon you can ;-)

I've reduced my sugar intake since September and its contributed to a double rate weight loss compared to a year ago when I actually had a slightly lower net calorie intake but didn't really track sugar. Nothing dramatic, just cut the basic target to 60g ( 1750 calories target ) and made sure most of that comes from…

Oh, and if you can afford it, but a vivofit or activity watch and use that for an accurate general calorie burn, also use a heart rate monitor with it to measure running, gym or whatever you may do for exercise.

Calorie deficit with a sensible diet and some exercise. Keep sugar down, fibre, protein and fat reasonably high and try not to drink your calories where possible.

- Exercise moderately but often and eat back the calories - Keep the sugar down - Try to eat as much fibre as possible - Drink loads of water

Good list OP. Clearly CICO fundamentally works for most people, but then there are many who swear by 5-2 or LCHF as well and have proved it without needing to count calories. From my experience CICO works fine with a sensible diet but the closer you get to optimum weight the more the details do matter, eg reduce sugar,…

Almost daily, but wont bother if I've had any sort of food/alcohol related blow-out in the previous 2 days. Its obvious you will get fluctuations but rather have them daily and see a pattern than weekly and have to wait a week or more to know the trend!

Stay fit, and get down to 75kg in time for spring. Focus on speed and getting parkrun time down before starting marathon training in Jan. Then Reading half and London full marathons in the spring. Then probably a couple of 10ks in summer before another half in the autumn. Targets; Parkrun 19'59 ( PB 20'04 ) 10k 42 ( 44'13…