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Thanks Heybales. Very useful. I haven't been doing much treadmill work for the last few months but remember how 4mph feels so can compare to that. I reckon splitting the time spent half at medium intensity and half at high will probably account for the walks most accurately as obviously there is a big difference in how…

Thanks. Was already using your spreadsheet to calculate TDEE prior to getting body fat test so might continue to use that. I do like the fact that you can track the changes in measurements so easily with it. Its a great tool, thanks for sharing it with everyone.

I'm pretty new to this programme so sure you will get advice rather much more experienced EMTWL-ers but thought I would give you both the link to heybales spreadsheet that alot of us use. It allows you to customise your TDEE around what exercise you actually do.…

Thanks. Not sure when I will be able to get it re-tested at the gym as the machine isn't always available but will try. Since starting this programme I feel far far more committed to reducing my body fat rather than *just* seeing numbers go down on the scales but i am now wondering how I am going to measure that reduction.…

Thanks for the reply. Wasn't sure what the accuracy was for the measurements so feel a bit reassured that it's not definite that I have gained 5% body fat. Should i adjust my TDEE according to the new measurement or not? This one is rather higher than the estimate based on my measurements, which is more in line with my…

The machines with the electrodes that go on foot and hand.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the advice. I think i will give it at least another 2/3 weeks and see if the scales are still staying the same before trying your technique. I'm away staying with friends next week so won't have as close an idea of exact calories so that wouldn't be a good a good indication, and then give it a couple…

Sorry, "STS" = stay the same. Its commonly used on another forum i go on so didn't realised it wasn't commonly used. So the slight concern is that things have stabilised quite quickly, albeit that they may well not remain the same as the weeks go on. I guess I just wondered if this was normal when resetting; to have a…

Thanks for the reply, and I am gradually moving away from placing so much importance on the scales but i kind of thought from reading up on here that knowing whether any gain that occurs happens very suddenly or gradually was quite useful in this process? Is that wrong?

Just bumping to see if anyone can provide some advice on whether a STS in the second week of a reset might imply that damaged metabolism wasn't the main reason for a very very very long plateau.

I'm really new to this eating more thing so had a similar dilemna to you. I'd been restrictng my food intake for over 4 years and so have gone for "low" options of most things for what seems like forever. A couple of the things that I have re-introduced and can't believe i ever turned away from have been full fat cream…

I'm two and a half weeks into my first ever reset and I found myself ravenous 4 days in. Every 2/ 2.5 hours my body would DEMAND food in a very loud and insistent way which i found really odd given that never happened when i was eating far less. Reading around on here it sounds like its a rarely normal part of your…

Oh and what I meant to ask around the issue about non-nutritious calories was whether if i intended to have say two beers one evening would i be better taking those calories over two days as long as I wasn't eating below my BMR on the day I wasn't drinking it on? So that it made sure I had more "proper" calories for my…

This thread was really useful as I've just started a reset a week ago and was curious about alcohol. I pretty much gave up dinking a couple of years ago because it seemed like a waste of calories but over the last 6 months I have had the odd drink maybe once a month. Would be quite nice to make that once a week but was…

Thank you so much for that link. You've obviously put alot of work into that spreadsheet and its lovely of you to share it with everyone :) I was a bit concerned about the previous ones not accounting for body fat % so glad I found this one. Don't have a truly up to date measure of it at the moment (will get one in a…

I did feel miserably full for the first couple of days and then at the weekend it seemed to change around to feeling very full immediately after eating but then getting hugely hungry a couple of hours later. Managing to spread my calories out to cover that at the moment, although reassured to hear that the hungry every…

Yeah, the kettlebells class I do is much more set up as a circuits type thing which was why I wondered. Think I might try swapping one of my cardio sessions for the next couple of weeks to a gym kettlebells session but concencrate on going up a weight and doing less reps. The walks are only once or twice a month so reckon…

Thanks for the reply. Its reassuring to hear it working for other people and your avatar picture is really inspiring. I did check my TDEE on the scooby calculator but was concerned that that one doesn't take account of body fat % and therefore can inflate TDEE for people who are still reasonably overweight. Is this the…