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I live with my parents and mum plans evening meals for the week, so I log that the night before. I have a few different breakfasts that are similar calories so that just depends how much time I have, and then lunch and snacks vary depending on what I'm doing, trying to hit my macros.

My runs sound so boring now! The biggest dangers are drivers and cyclists, both groups seem oblivious to the fact that the bends in the road are really blind!

Mine doesn't pick up if I'm pushing something, but tends to even if I'm carrying quite heavy bags. My job basically involves pushing a shopping trolley all day (picking items for delivery) but because some of the steps were picked up, and some of the time I wasn't pushing the trolley but walking with my hands free, I took…

I have Flex and it's definitely worth it. It made me realise that: - on days when I work I need to eat MORE (but not binges!) - on days when I don't work I can be so sedentary that I really shouldn't have been eating as much as I was - doing 10,000 steps a day is pretty manageable and helps me get "more calories" so that I…

My 22 year old best friend! Although by the time I've lost it, she hopes to have gained 5-10kg

Haha even by lunchtime my Fitbit wouldn't be below 1200 unless I've been lying in bed, but yeah I get that it will be lower earlier in the day because it doesn't know how active I'll be for the rest of it. I've got negative adjustment enabled so I'll go by MFP. The MFP figures make me happier, they just seemed a lot higher…

Sorry to jump on your thread, but all this advice about going slower is making me wonder why I find it so difficult to do just that? I'm "running" again after finishing C25K last summer and then not really running since (I didn't get up to 5k, but I *did* get to 30mins solid running). I'm currently running til I'm too out…

Yes, using Fitbit for eating goal is fine. I don't mind if I end up +/-100 calories of what it suggests, and it's not too difficult having a different target every day. But I'm struggling to eat enough - so I'll make some changes to what I'm eating and hopefully that will improve things! Post workout snacks I haven't…

Haha, yeah my mum hates it! But her constant "you can't possibly be hungry" gets quite annoying!! But I'm 230+ lbs at 160cm and 22 years old... Carbs are fine, but I know sugar isn't great (I've just started tracking it so I can keep an eye on it), and I should be aiming for complex carbs, but there's so much stuff out…

Thanks Heybales I decided to stick with a 500 calorie planned deficit, and use MFP to track food (and non-step exercise) and Fitbit to see how much to eat and track everything else. But I'm really struggling to eat my calories and hit my macros. I know there's no benefit in eating more than a certain amount of protein, so…

I get walking the dog counted as VAM time quite a lot, as well as parts of my job (retail). I had to raise my VAM target or I was just acing it without doing anything

Thanks for all the responses everyone :) I've been putting my flex in my pocket for the last week or so and my steps at work have more than doubled! When I did a 100 step walk test at home, the flex only picked up 88 of my steps from being in my pocket in my work trousers, but that's better than the 0 it picked up when I…

Thanks :) I'm weighing again tomorrow (limit myself to once a week with maybe a sneak peek halfway through at the wrong time of day!) and I'm not sure whether to expect a loss or a gain or just staying the same! I'm still feeling pretty fit and energetic at the moment, probably in part from good changes to my diet…

I'm currently 240lb with a goal weight of about 140lb, so 1-2lb a week seemed like an OK amount to me for the first couple of weeks - I was aiming to try to slow it out at about 1lb a week after first few weeks but obviously being ill screwed that up. But I'll try cutting it to a 15% deficit and see how that works. I do…

I think I'm going to have to try that next shift. I'm just worried about it falling out - I don't have very big pockets!

It depends on more than just your height - your age, current weight and activity level will have a big impact. For me, at 5 ft 2, 1310 calories is too big a deficit, because I'm very overweight, quite young and quite active. If you use the MFP guided settings and aim for 1lb loss a week (if you have fewer than 10lb to lose…

Thanks!!!

I think coming from a family of overweight people, where my mum in particular yoyo diets, I've definitely got a distorted view. My shifts are between 4 and 7 hours long, so not quite all day, but I guess it is enough for me to be more than sedentary. Having put my stats back through, I'm looking at about 1900 BMR, but TDEE…

I hadn't thought of doing that and just reducing my exercise calories! And yeah, I'm a student so spend a lot of time sitting around, I walk maybe an hour total each day, and I work 2-3 days a week where I'm on my feet all day, but not being particularly active. It just seems crazy to me to imagine that an OK amount to eat…

:) thanks very much!

OK, calories being between BMR and TDEE makes sense :) I'm 22, 245lb, 160cm, have been sedentary but now trying to exercise 30 minutes+ 3 times a week. I was confused as to whether I should have been aiming to eat my cut amount, my BMR (which is almost the same), my TDEE, or an amount between these!

Based on the site suggested my BMR is 1900, based on a few other sites it averages at just below 2000, so I've assumed that eating below 2000 would be eating below my BMR, if that makes sense. I haven't been doing much exercise so I'ved used the sedentary calculations to get my TDEE (2200 is based off 1900ish BMR) but I'm…

Oh OK I never even thought that it would be something I should see a doctor about! Now I feel really stupid! Thanks for the advice everyone! :)

My pool has slow, medium and fast lanes, and sometimes non-lane swimming, medium and fast lanes. They alternate clockwise and anti-clockwise to stop a current being built up or something, so there might be signs telling you which way to swim. Start off in the slowest section, and if you are lapping people every length or…

Doesn't this mean that there could be an equation developed which takes account of resting heart rate as an indication of fitness level? My resting heart rate is stupidly high, at about 95bpm. According to various algorithms and equations, this means I would burn about 200 calories an hour doing nothing, but my BMR is only…