ajnb88 Member

Sounds obvious I know, but weigh your foods. Estimation is fine when you've been doing it for ages, but it's still never going to be accurate. Also, as you add muscle mass, increase calories. They need energy to function, with a large deficit (and it sounds like one) your body is basically torn between trying to lose…

Hello :) Birmingham UK, formerly London.

I did it for a couple months and it worked well for me. Gradually increased carbs afterwards and I'm not obese yet.

Then I'd say yes - although I know nothing of Zumba, so you'd have to try and figure out what kind of energy burn it is from others/the database etc.

Does your fitbit track heart rate as well?

I found that I was drastically underestimating my TDEE - I kept losing weight no matter what I did until I started tracking my workouts with my fitbit and syncing the data to MFP. Turns out my TDEE is somewhere around 3.5-4.5k/day depending on work and workouts, far higher than the 2.5-3k I was expecting.

I use defaults, but with my fitbit feeding the exercise data.

Yes, they can work. Don't get conned into spending a fortune on them though, most are pretty much the same thing and I've known people spend loads on something with average nutritional values.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone :) I've been using my Fitbit for a couple days now, and both days it seems to suggest that MFP's guesstimate for my calorie expenditure is pretty damn close. I'll give it a few more days to confirm, then I might start tracking again

Thanks ☺️ Definitely not. I was so happy to lose so much weight, but in the second photo I still wanted to lose more. I was eating hardly anything and doing hours of cardio, and it was only later that I realised just how skinny I was getting.

These pictures are two years apart, the first is 2012, second is 2014, third is now. In terms of time to lose weight, it actually only took me about 9-12 months maybe? With the bulk of the weight coming off in about 6 months. I was starving myself. Lost almost 35kg.

Decided to bulk again.

I very rarely do leg day specifically, instead I do squats almost every gym session, with sldls thrown in if I do want to focus on them a bit more ;)

Thank you :) yeah, I don't like that middle pic... At the time I loved the weight loss but looking back it really makes me sad :(

Thank you :) Something I've had to come to terms with is that my metabolism since losing all that weight has Been a little off, and gaining weight is nowhere near as easy as I thought. Focusing instead on eating right and sticking to compound lifts, and it seems to be working so far :)

Hello again. I'm in the middle of a cut (low carbs, still not counting calories). It seems to be going well. Edit: also bloody hell I'm suddenly a lot more hairy

Currently at around 77kg, short term goal is 80, long term is 90. It's a long way off yet.

I wish I knew. :disappointed:

Theoretically, I guess yes, but you'd have to do a LOT of them and build up a hell of a lot of muscle to see it.

627, Nowhere near yet :( I struggled with squats for so long that I avoided them entirely for months; I only started them properly a couple months ago.

I get that sometimes, but when I do it's usually around the 3000 mark..! I just have to remember how quickly I lose weight if I don't eat enough these days. Of course I'm trying to gain, but it still happens.

My cheat days are enforced by my wife suggesting we get pizza. Happens about once a month, and I can't resist pizza. :) Other than that, I don't really do them. I'll have days when I go over my targets, but I don't have certain days where I just decide to eat crap.

1. lost near enough 35kg (77lbs), decided to do so after I realised I was obese. 2. Honestly, I get more attention from the same sex, who don't seem to care as much that I'm married as women do. 3. It was great getting smaller clothes at first, now it bugs me that I'm a small/extra small. :( looking to gain at the moment.…

I <3 cable crunches. Really easy to progressively add weight without having to balance a dumbell.

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I think it's to encourage blood flow/removal of lactic acid, but don't quote me on that. I never do post-workout stretches and it hasn't really caused me any issues yet.

I didn't stretch before doing Stiff-legged deadlifts for the first time and couldn't walk for a week. However, a lot of people suggest not stretching while cold (i.e. before warming up), so I generally just warm up with light weights and then do some stretches appropriate for the lift I'm going to do (i.e. back extensions…

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I sometimes feel this way, but the fixed barbells are a lot shorter than the standard Olympics, so it does take a lot of stabilisation out of the equation, meaning you can put all your energy into the movement, rather than staying balanced as well. ...At least that's how I justify it :lol:

I gave up trying to accurately eat back calories, as I just couldn't get a concrete answer as to how many were burned (all apps and machines said different things). What I do instead is just eat what mfp suggests, but on workout days I'll eat more if I'm hungry (without going to the extreme and binging). I find it works…