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I saw the program and thought it was really badly put together. There was only one real success story, and although they showed him lifting weights, they didn't at all explore the reasons why he, over the others, might have kept the weight off - because his training progressed, rather than him swimming the same 10 laps of…

I absolutely use this approach. I log everything in MFP but have Fitbit synced so I can get an accurate TDEE every day, and I use the adjusted target calorie intake rather than a fixed one every day of the week, so I always have either exercise cals to eat, or a negative adjustment. I have a spreadsheet I made to track my…

This is really starting to p me off now. I didn't change anything with my setup when the problem first happened around 22 July like the advice said. Gave it over a week before I unsynced my accounts and tried connecting them again. When I unsynced, Mfp pulled through the first fitbit adjustment in nearly 10 days (whilst…

I've had it coated in honey and fried in Spain before. Possibly not very low calorie but delicious!!!! Otherwise my go to recipes include pork and I assume you're a vegetarian?

What do you mean by nibbles? If there are sweets or crisps around and you eat a handful through the day, you should try to log it as it can add up quickly. If you mean testing your sauce for dinner or licking the spoon after baking, it's probably not necessary. I don't tend to nibble though, I either eat a portion of…

I can't run at the moment because I've put on weight since I did C25k before and now I get shin splints from running (or walking on a steep incline, at a fast pace etc.) I am avoiding all high impact cardio, so I use the bike and cross-trainer a LOT. My trainer won't let me run until I've lost another stone (I've currently…

£75 per month (about $110 I think for 3 60-minute sessions per week at a small gym with group training. It's pricey but I get the experience and support of a trainer, plus the other clients are quite a good support group, and having to book my slots really keeps me committed to going. A regular £15 a month membership would…

I agree with what others have said - as a one-off it's fine, but you may need to plan better if you're consistently under your protein goal. But I'd also add that it depends whether you've done any additional exercise. As exercise calories are spread across your macros, your protein goal will increase when you work out,…

As others have said, it depends on your preference. I would have a home gym if I had the space for a cross-trainer and floorwork as well as my weights, but in my flat I only had space for one thing, so I do weights at home and have a gym membership which I use far more regularly (3x a week). If I had everything at home,…

Have you changed how you sync? It might be that you never synced that early so mfp based your daily goals purely on your activity level, but now fitbit us syncing early with 0 steps so mfp panics and adjusts accordingly? I know I often have a big negative or positive adjustment show up as soon as I do my first sync for the…

Oooooh I love a good carvery!!!!

I realised that a lot of the time, I either want that dessert because someone else is having it, or because I'm hungry when I'm thinking about it. The way I avoid having to say no to the dessert is by avoiding buying food or being a position to make decisions about food when I'm hungry. If I'm eating out, I order a filling…

If you want to be really thorough, weigh it before cooking, weigh again after cooking and calculate the multiple/ratio/percentage, then weight what's left after you've eaten what you want, and use the multiple/ratio/percentage you got to enter the relative raw weight! ;) But I'd imagine weighing at some point before and…

I eat all fitbit adjustment calories because I tend to find my fitbit quite reliable. If I do non-step activity, I either don't bother with it (10 minutes on a bike or weights) or I log it in mfp, override the calories burned with 50-75% of the figure suggested making sure to enter the correct time, and continue to eat…

I have suffered a migraine twice after exercising on an empty stomach, which is enough that I no longer do it, so i don't know if it affects my performance. I do that I feel best exercising about 1-2 hours after eating a small meal or substantial snack, if it's too long since I ate,I feel kind of weak and if I ate too…

Thank you! I'm sort of disappointed I wasn't underestimating myself but definitely glad I probably won't regret not forking out for a whole new set of discs and a bar I won't be able to lift!

Thanks for replying I don't have a squat rack yet but my partner can spot for me and I am planning on getting one as soon as i am lifting enough to need it to continue safely. I think my squats will need a lot of work on form too, so I'm not planning on starting them too heavy until I know my form is right. Whereas I think…

Urgh so many issues with this article. It doesn't say whether people were trying to lose weight and whether they were trying to do so for the full period of time concerned. It measures success as going from an obese BMI to a "normal" BMI within a year - is normal healthy? or an average? Because the two aren't the same! And…

Thanks! :smiley: I always seem to plan what I'll eat out before I go, which takes some of the fun out when I'm there, but I just went with the flow!!

Thank you so much for this! It's such a good way of thinking about it.

Lots of pubs and restaurants here have a sea bass or salmon option which I tend to think of as lighter. And you can always ask them to cook something in a particular way - grilled vs fried, steamed vs boiled. Depending on the pub/restaurant you'll either get blank looks or acquiescence - we're sloowwwwly becoming a place…

I'd suggest setting MFP up for a slow loss - 0.5-1lb per week - and monitoring that for a month to see if you lose at an OK rate. If you're losing too quickly, up your calories and remember that you have to up them quite a lot to suddenly put weight on or stop losing. Having a smaller deficit will make it easier to stay on…

I pre-log with estimates of quantities for bf, lunch and dinner, sometimes pre-log snacks if I know what I'm doing the whole day. I couldn't log things after eating them because I'd end up missing macros or going over on calories. Pre-logging makes me think "is it worth it" even for "healthy" meals and makes me aware of…

I can't detect a pattern at all, but I'm on the implant and rarely get periods. Taking extra progesterone right now because they came on really often but irregularly (and thankfully smaller!) but if I still have a "normal cycle" it doesn't seem to be impacting on my weight, and the irregularities don't affect it.

I use a Fitbit too, and I get about 1000 "extra" calories on days when I work which can be attributed to walking. So yes, I can burn 1000 calories a day above my BMR (or above sedentary TDEE) but most people wouldn't class this as exercise. I guess it's fair enough to say it's not exercise, but I only work 3-4 days a week,…

I don't always log them, but if it's a new vegetable, or I'm tight on calories, I will. If it's a Sunday roast I'll always weigh and log my roasties and parsnips, but don't often bother with carrots/leeks/cauli etc. because it's barely 30 calories per serving, and I usually end up with a LOT of extra calories from work…

Apparently there were some tweaks going on to improve the way steps are used in MFP from various apps - think it started yesterday and it meant to finish today, so it could be that.

I swim twice a week and love it, IF I manage to go when it's not too busy. It's not too expensive for me - as a student I can swim at my local pool for about £2.50 a session. The full price is ridiculous though at £4.50 a session. I swim laps and at the time I go there are three speeds available so I'm not constantly being…

Just wanted to point out that this applies to "exercise calories" or "calorie adjustments" only, NOT to total calories burned in the day in case OP got the wrong idea. OP, if you do exercise and MFP says it burns 300 calories, only eat back 150ish of these. But if you calculate your total calories burned in a day as 3000,…

You could check what the difference is between sedentary and active for your stats, then on days where you're working, give yourself that difference in calories as exercise calories. If you put it into your activity level, you'll probably be really hungry on days when you work and not very hungry on days when you don't,…