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I set my lifestyle to sedentary and then logged walking as it varied so much day to day depending on how many of the dog walks I did and where I was working that day. Now I am on maternity I will probably put mildly active and not log walking, I'm doing all the dog walks now. To be honest, walking calories are always…

Is there nothing you like doing, exercise wise? Exercise when your only goal is losing weight is a little bit depressing, but if the weight comes off while you are doing something you like it is win-win. Even if you like something you can only do once a week or so, the gym machines seem to have more purpose as they are…

Thank you Asteroid - that is exactly what I was thinking, I only just got a HRM, so I'm just adapting to it. Before I got it, I thought that I was overestimating my exercise but the HRM has veto-ed that theory, this one makes more sense - I just didn't think it through before. Sorry if I didn't make it too clear R6JT, I'm…

I think if you had enough muscle to take you all the way from normal to morbidly obese, you would be doing so much weight training that you wouldn't have any doubts about the shape you are in. You need to turn your upset into a positive force for change instead of looking for reassurance that you don't need to do anything.…

You need to look for a sport that lets you make use of how fit you got at the gym - for example, if you did a lot on the bike - mountain biking. It wasn't all about how you look - why did you want to lose weight, were any of your reasons so you could do X, Y and Z - then do them. You have the world of wetsuit based sports…

I don't below about 300 exercise calories as that is just daily minimum and no real effort (dog walks and cycle commute). Above 500 I eat back half as I really feel I need to, I think I've reached a stage where I know when I need to, if it didn't feel right to you then don't do it. Occasionally my exercise calories are…

I'm going against the grain here but I don't think that when someone is morbidly obese and high risk of diabetes, you do them a favour letting them reach their own rock bottom. She is obviously not happy the way she is, all you are doing allowing it to go on is encouraging her denial and risking her health. If this goes on…

When I exercise at that time of the day I eat an oat bar about an hour beforehand, also worth making sure you are not dehydrated if coming straight from work.

How does this apply to those of us who have a slow metabolism from reasons other than yo yo dieting? I managed to mess mine up from years of taking steroids (medical ones for colitis or arthritis, not body building or anything). It is slowly coming back to normal and I have taken a slowly slowly kid gloves approach (no…

I keep a sort of weekly star chart on my wall to show the variety of exercise I do and when. It makes me more motivated towards to end of a bad week to pick up the pace (I don't want a rubbish little 3 star week to look back on). It also shows me, of the 5 sports I do, which I might be neglecting - so three weeks without a…

I gain about 4lbs for a few days each month in water retention/ PMT. It might be something like that, I wouldn't worry about it as you know you haven't eaten an extra 3500 cals. However, it might be worth eating a bit less processed food, I think they give you all the bad stuff and not all the good and maybe snacking on…

I think everyone treats their workout calories differently. I don't eat them if they are below 300 and if above then eat half. So when I do 800 calories exercise, I eat 400 calories more. You could try that, then maybe vary it by how you feel and how it is working out. The 300 is my daily minimum of dog walks and cycle to…

A runner friend of mine swears by a hard boiled egg for breakfast, maybe try that?

Maybe doing the same things everyday is making it hard for your muscles to recover - could you change one of the workouts to swimming / dancing / pilates or something that uses your body in a slightly different way?

I had bad arthritis in my foot for a year so had similar restrictions, however I took up kayaking for cardio and it was actually really good to focus on it and get fairly good at it (I usually dip in and out of different sports). I also bought a Swiss ball for doing sit ups, press ups (calves on ball, feet hanging off, no…