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Thanks..height is 5'8" and current weight as of this morning is 140 pounds. I lift so I have obvious muscle but there is this fat ring around my middle and love handles and I have noticed what I affectionately call "old lady" fatty dimples on my *kitten* and uuper legs. The top half of me looks like I am 25 ...lol

Thanks. I sit on my but in front of a computer so my activity level is as correct as it can get and I do eat my calories from exercise, every darn one of them. A female athlete even at 52 can sfely have a BF of 15%...really I am not skin and bone but healthy muscle.

I strength train and do tons of cardio..I am gearing up for a bike ride August 28 and the training schedule is a tough one. I usually ride 4 hours on the weekend and another 5 or so mid week, so cardio and working ut are not the issue....it's my food intake I suspect.

I do want to get my body fat % down to about 13 to 14% and lose some of the extra menopausal fat on my *kitten* and legs. It might only be a small amount to most here but it bothers me and I did not know you have to be in the big digits to use MFP. I am very serious and this is bothering me. It is all relative and I am as…

alifer, I did just as you suggested and it makes more sense (bumped up to 1450 baseline). The only confusion I have is I exercise by cycling and I can burn some serious calories (700 -1500) how is that calculated into the equation as it varies from day to day with distance and intensity? I mean I can easily use my…