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Thanks everyone :) Hopefully won't feel meticulous forever having to be really strict with my measuring as I'm hoping il get good at eyeing the correct amounts but I'm happy to do keep measuring for now if it means it gets me where I need to be :)

Was meticulous this last week and through being consistent I've lost 1lb am gonna stick to the 2400 for the foreseeable I think as I'm happy eating this amount and it's working it would appear :) once things stop again il reevaluate and go back to tdee for a week or two then cut again :)

Checking in for my weekly update, ate at 2400 this last week and scales up 1lb this week, had a bit of a wobble seeing them go up but am telling myself it can only be water weight as I haven't eaten in an excess to gain fat. Not sure whether to push it again this week with more cals or to stay at 2400 again and see what…

I'm hoping that's exactly what's been wrong, time will tell! I've upped the cals to 2400 starting yesterday and then will go up another 50 or 100 next Monday too and so on until I get to 2696. Fingers crossed it works :)

The days with my higher readings are my gym days so Yep I am more active on those days as I have a 20 min walk to the gym and the same back again afterwards. And whilst there I do 30 mins cardio and 45/60 mins weights each time. I think I will increase my cals 100 a week untill I get to the 15% of my fitbit TDEE and see…

Me checking in again, this week I maintained my weight but that's ok because I know I ate more this week, also I was trying out different macro ratios too so it might even just be that. One interesting thing is my TDEE from my fitbit average from this first week seems to be around 3171 which is higher than scooby gave me…

Yep definitley got more energy overall, it's awesome!

Ok so it's been a week since I last weighed and I'm down a pound! :) didn't eat consistently to my 15%cut every day sometimes it was prob only a 10%cut but whatever I'm doing seems to be working.Also got a fitbit on Friday and my TDEE is about 70/80 cals higher than scoobys so far but I'm going to give it a full week maybe…

The cardio is normally cross trainer and bike, and spin class on a Saturday, that makes sense about how to log it thank you! I take a little notepad with me when I workout to record if my lifts change etc so I can easily take a note of my cals burned and times on my hrm just for cardio and then use the fitbits site for the…

Thanks, I'm not going to sync them as I prefer to keep MFP just for logging food. One thing though I normally pop my HRM on at the beginning of my session do a 10min warm up cardio and then weights for 45/60 mins and then 20mins more cardio. If I just deduct say 200cals from whatever my HRM gives me at the end and then…

I've just ordered a Fitbit because I love me some technology ???? my question is should I keep it on during my gym sessions when I'm lifting/cardio or shall I take it off and then record the gym session as an activity on my fotbit after my session? I wear a HRM for the gym already so will have a start-stop time to enter…

Thanks guys yeah I upped the calories by 290, we shall see what next Monday's weigh in brings :)

Ok update time I meticulously counted everything from Monday until Thursday last week and had a more relaxed weekend with some alcohol as was away with the husband. I normally don't drink much so this was a once in a blue moon type of affair. The scales this morning are putting me 3.5lb up from last Monday but I know some…

I think I see what you are saying, I normally weigh on a Monday morning as I don't work out Sunday's and so my body is rested. I'm going to track accurately at the 2287 and see what happens over a few weeks. Then makes adjustments from there if I need to. Fwiw I had another pt session tonight at the gym and have lost…

I wasn't 100% accurate with the measuring all the time, so could be off. But doing the most accurate calculator with my current body fat % gives me a BMR of 1847 and a TDEE of 2863,and cut is 2434. First calculations were TDEE amount of cals 2699 and cut cals 2287 I don't think I've been eating my TDEE cals even with…

Thank you, ive had a think and decided to go for the -15% number for now so will see how I get on and keep you all updated on my progress :)

Thank you! :D I found the forum earlier and posted over there too, I've spent all day reading hahahha, I,m curious about doing a reset and I think that I might want to try that and see what happens, which would mean eating 2699 cals for a while and then cut down to my 15% off? Would that be ok do you think or do I not need…

Ah sorry for talking to myself here but Ive been doing some more reading and found scoobys website site and calculated my BMR 1741 and TDEE 2699 and at a 15% cut that gives me 2287 cals a day with 172p 229c 76f does this sound good? That's a big jump in carbs from what I was eating, scary!

My body fat according to my pt is 28% down from 33% in the past 10-12 weeks I knwo there can be an error of margin using calipers but she seems to know what she is doing and measures 3 separate sites each time.

:love: dem legs tho! Inspiration right here!