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Pretty sure it just calculates your defecit that day and works out what you'd expect to lose if you had that same defecit every day for 5 weeks. To make that happen, you'd need to recalculate your maintenance calories and adjust your daily intake every day since as you lose weight the amount you can eat and keep the same…

There's a 10 minute abs workout as part of the max 30 program, you could do it in the morning.

Max 30 is better in my opinion. More intense and doesn't 'waste' 10 minutes stretching! Do some stretching earlier in the day if you're struggling for time in the evening. Max 30, so long as you push yourself really hard, is a really good workout and should keep your heart rate high for the full 30 minutes.

Pure gym are pretty good and cheap - about £12-18 pm depending on location. Open 24 hours, all have free weights as well as cardio and classes.

I cycle 11 miles to work, takes me a little under 50 minutes and my HR monitor and garmin say I burn about 500 calories in that time, so probably equates to 600 an hour. I cycle pretty hard and heart rate is around 140-150bpm the whole time.

Trampolining. Do you have a trampoline park (big warehouse with loads of trampolines and foam pits) near you? Fun for everyone and I found I burned close to 600 calories in an hour of (vigorous!) bouncing about!

My heart rate monitor shows a pretty steady state hr during insanity - about 160bpm for the full 30mins - I burn around 300 calories. Agreed though that without a HRM you'd be guessing.

When I ride my bike on a turbo stand, my HRM says I burn about 100 calories every 10 minutes. This is way more than MFP estimates for spinning; however my HRM gives me less than MFP estimates for running - wonder why the difference. Am I just working a lot harder than the average person on the bike?! My heart rate is at…

meant to say - I'm about at my ideal weight, so trying to figure out what to set my maintenance level at.

Presumably they go to bed around 7-8? Can't you exercise then?

That would make sense, but the average HR says it is much the same as any other km where I get 45 calories (normal for first km), that's what confuses me.

But why would it use the same data and get totally different answers?

So the consensus is that my watch is a bit defective! I wonder why that happens, surely it just does a calculation based on my weight, time run, speed (?) and average heart rate, so how does it get it wrong?!

Yes, I meant at the low end of the usual estimates not that I didn't believe it. But 10 calories for a km is nonsense, right?!

I see you're in the UK too, I really recommend looking for a metafit class, it's awesome! The actual workout is only 20-25min, but you barely stop and it hits every part of your body and boosts your metabolism. There's bound to be a class near you.

I'm 5'5 and was 142 at the start of September, I'm now 130, aiming for about 126, or whenever I'm happy with my shape. I aim for 1450, must admit, I don't eat particularly healthily, I just eat fewer biscuits and chocolate and as little bread as I can manage. I exercise most days - I do metafit twice a week (a high…

I did a body fat % test - just the ones on scales where you hold the handles, which I know are not that accurate, but it said 19%, so I assume a few more is more realistic. With BMI - I guess since it gives you a range, I feel that the bottom end of the range is 'better' - and the bottom end of the range is 54kg! I'm not…

I eat mine - not always all of them, and only what my garmin hrm says I've burned, not what MFP says.

hill sprints - sprinting properly uphill with a good high knee lift really works your core. nothing too steep and not too far, 50-100m is plenty - but really go for it, as fast as you can! start with a couple of sets of 4 with a walk/job back down and a 5 minute easy run between sets (run a mile or so either side warm up…

I'm 5'5.5" and started on here almost 3 weeks ago at 144lb. I have a desk job 3 days a week and chase round after 2 kids the other days, so I chose lightly active and to lose 1lb a week and MFP gave me 1320 cal per day. I usually eat around 14-1600 but I earn 3-600 cal per day from exercise. So far I have lost 9lb, aiming…

I'm not fasting but have a friend who is, how can you stomach a big breakfast in the middle of the night? Or are you located somewhere where sunrise is a air bit later than 4am (and sunset's at 10pm - don't know how you do it!)

I'm just over 5'5" and started out at 143lb, I set my goal to 129lb, which looks odd, but we work in stones (14lb) in the UK, so that was an aim of losing a stone. I used to be a track sprinter, so still have pretty heavily muscled thighs, so never going to skinny. In my fastest days, 6-days a week heavy training days I…