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I second the swimming reccomendation. IIRC it's the exercise that's least stressing on the joints. Though it does cost money to go to the pool generally, and walking is free.

Plus you sweat during the night, even if it's not hot, so you'll lose some weight through that.

This is generally the theory though. Assuming you eat fairly healthy in general, when you have random cravings for out of the blue, say, oranges or peanut butter, it's considered to be your body trying to push you towards where it knows certain nutrients come from.

That requires preparation though, which is something I've not gotten round to doing re: my lunch yet. The yoghurt and tuna in question were bought from the shop near work, and while I technically have access to a microwave and a kettle, I don't really have anywhere to cook or prepare lunch at work. That does sound nice…

I'm not going to track it closely. Where possible, I'll be accurate, and I will note down just how many mince pies I eat. But I'm not going to weigh out my roast parsnips on Christmas Day or track exactly how much leftover turkey went into the Boxing Day fry up. Then again, I'm not looking to lose a huge amount of weight,…

I think my Jack and Eugene had their first kiss to I Fink U Freeky by Die Antwoord! And the apology song they play for somebody, in season 2 I think, was Reach by S Club 7

I've been finding 0% greek yoghurt useful, yeah. I still haven't gotten round to starting planning/making lunch in advance, so yesterday I had a tin of tuna steak and a 0% greek yoghurt and was pleasantly surprised how high in protein the latter was. I don't feel like eating plain tuna steak again today, but I'll probably…

I'll try and use some more of my myprotein whey powder. It is ...a year out of date, but it hadn't been opened till like two days ago I think. It smells and tastes fine. It's just that it's ~100 calories a scoop (plus milk) and gives very little nutrients afaik other than protein. But, if I am aiming for higher protein,…

@psulemon I'm not trying to go low fat particularly. Just trying to hit my protein goal without going over my calorie goal. It currently seems that fat is the problem, but I guess I could try lowering the amount of carbs by a bit and moving that allowance into fat. @lodro Ah, lean body weight, not total! OK, but I don't…

"but why is it hard to eat 1300 cals is it because im squeezing it in 8 hours? and should i lower the wate" This is their question. I'm afraid I'm too inexperienced to answer, but it may be because you're squeezing it in 8 hours. Then agaib I can't understand feeling full on 1300, I often easily go over my 1450 goal.

According to MFP, to maintain 73 kg (11 1/2 stone) on a lightly active lifestyle (I'm on my feet all day at work) I'd need 2080 calories. On a sedentary lifestyle I'd need 1860 to maintain. So yeah, you're right, I can't eat 1000 over breakfast/lunch if I assume my dinners are also 1000. To lose 0.5 kg a week MFP says I'll…

Injury is a point I didn't consider. I guess if I tripped over, even on a student campus there wouldn't be that many people out at 2 am. But I do always take me phone with me so I can call for help if need be (plus it has my Zombies Run on it! :P)

I suppose it's the benefit of being able to safely run on campus, where the are hardly any cars at midnight (or other people, though once I was running round a little wooded area here and another jogger went past and that gave me such a fright!). And yeah, I feel you about it being easier to stay up late than get up…

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Sure, why not, let's give this ago. I'm only counting running though. Total: 5.5/35 2.4 miles on March 9th 2.9 miles on March 12th

So I've logged by time for a couple of days, and I've found that if I forget to log throughout the day, when it comes to having time to log, I forget when I ate stuff. Considering I switched to using a time-based system partly out of curiosity at to when I eat the most, this is a touch annoying. But I guess it's a good…

I bought The Walk not long after it came out, and I'm really enjoying it. You open the app, decide whether you want to take the longer diversion (I always do, so I select them before I set off, but you can choose them later too if you haven't already passed the intersection). And then it will run in the background tracking…

Pretty sure you just run the supple runs when you need extra stuff to build up your base. I've never run them, as my phone can't really handle the base, so I can't comment in the way of story, but if they're anything like the Radio Mode then there won't be much story just tidbits and background to flesh out characters.

If you're doing the TDEE method, then it should have incorporated your exercise when calculating your TDEE, therefore it is your /total/ calories you're looking at. For example, for me, I (aim to) exercise 6 times a week (burning around 300 cal a time). Entering this and weight/height/age/fat % into the calculator…

I'll reply to these all properly later, just letting you know I've read them all. Seems to be two main ideas - run for longer distances at a constant speed or start doing intervals more. I'll probably try the first one initially as being able to run for a constant 30 minutes would be a good start.

I don't have a set order these songs come up on - I get ZR to randomise them for me - but my current Run! playlist is: She Wants To Move - N.E.R.D Gangname Style - Psy Gentleman - Psy Harder to Breathe - Maroon 5 In The Middle of the Night - Within Temptation A Demon's Fate - Within Temptation Shot In The Dark - Within…

When I've been doing my outdoor runs (I mix up treadmill and outdoor) they've been in the evenings, generally when it's dark or about to get dark. I run on and around campus usually so I feel safe enough. I guess how the colder weather is going to effect me is I might have to start wearing socks in my Merrels shoes!

I didn't use the 5k app, I went straight onto the ZR app. But what I did (and still do, to an extent) is to walk or jog for the spoken parts, and then run when a song starts playing until the end of the song. It means you run more than you walk, generally, and now I'm getting to the point where I can jog about half of the…

I managed to run for 16 minutes straight today! I ran from the first talking bit to the end of the third song, which was apparently about 16 minutes. I was only really jogging for the talking bits, true (7.5 km/h), but it wasn't walking. That's a lot more than I realised I could run. Also, my pace has quickened to ~7…

Splurge a whole calorie?! How shocking! :P Thanks for the advice everyone. I think I understand how it works now.

I'm working out my TDEE using this calculator: http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/ as it also works out my macros for me. Apparently my body fat is around 25-27%, and I exercise ~6 times a week. This gives me a TDEE of 2177-2221 apparently. If I set my goal as 1699 calories a day, a 500 deficit, do I eat that every day,…

I guess once I find out my fat percentage then I can get more accurate with numbers and stuff (tomorrow or Monday if I can get the machine to work...).

I've heard in a load of other places on here though that your TDEE doesn't include your workouts, just your day-to-day exercise (e.g. walking to and from work), and that your workouts are on top of that. Or have I misunderstood?