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Can my maintenance calories really be this high?
So, after maintain by guessing and not logging over Christmas, I decided to have a strict week this week. I logged everything, didn't eat too much and exercised a lot. Including my exercise calories (from HRM) and what I ate, 3500 calories per pound meant I should have lost 1.25lb. I lost 3. So the maths says I have a…
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calories per mile run?
Hi all. I am a regular runner using a garmin 610 with HRM to record my runs and estimate my calorie burn (so I can eat more!). I usually find the watch says about 50 calories per km (80 per mile) but sometimes, particularly the first couple of km it tells me as low as 10 calories for a km. Surely this can't be right? I can…
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body fat %
decided to do an 'official' weigh in (wasn't sure i trusted my home scales) on scales in the pharmacy, with body fat measurement via gripping the handles. Good news - I've lost 2.4kg since the last time I was on those scales (6 weeks ago) Bad news - I've apparently gained 4.4kg of fat! My weight has gone from 61.2 to…
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when to stop?
How did you set your target weight - and when you reach it, will you be happy to stop there? I've lost 6kg in the last few months, taking me below my target weight - but I'm not happy to stop here so have set a new target. However, if I get there, I can't see me thinking my body is perfect, so how do I know when enough is…
