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Caloric deficits as you approach your goal weight
Given that a large person has a higher caloric maintenance requirement than a smaller/lighter person, then as you are losing weight, your maintenance caloric requirement will decrease. This means that as you approach your goal weight, your daily caloric deficit becomes smaller. Am I right so far? In theory, you should stop…
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Fast and easy low-cal dinner bowl: very filling!
So I'm back on the wagon after falling off a few months ago...it has been a great first few days and I wanted to share something I "discovered" that has made a big difference for me for not only sticking to my goals but even coming in under it! I've started buying frozen dinners and what I do is add a huge pile of veggies.…
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Looking for an at-home workout for in-between running days
I run 3 - 4 days per week and would like to do some form of exercise on most of the alternating days that uses muscles I don't use much while running, and that won't exacerbate the strain on those muscles and joints that are used while running. A friend recommended HIIT workouts, for which there are many videos online, but…
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running calories: strava vs MFP
I recently synced up my Strava account to automatically enter my exercise into my MFP exercise diary. I'm noticing that strava gives significantly higher burns than MFP. For example, this morning I ran 7.6 km with an average pace of 6:46 min:sec/km (lots of hills!) and a total time of 52 minutes. Converting this to mph…
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best way to measure burn when trail biking?
I've just started riding my bike on some wooded trails and forestry roads. These are hilly routes - some stretches I'm working hard but not covering much distance, others I'm flying along downhill with little effort. Just using "time spent" doesn't seem a good way to determine calories burned, but using distance via GPS…
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skinny egg nog latte at Starbucks, please explain?
So I went to Starbucks this evening with a friend and didn't even bother to consult the nutritional information pamphlet I carry around with me when I decided to order, for the first time ever, a skinny latte. It was an eggnog latte, and I swore I tasted an artificial sweetener in there. It had no whip and, I assume,…
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Dinner Ideas (no super low fat, processed substitutes, etc.)
I'm looking for recipe ideas for dinner that are not super high in calories. In browsing around, it seems all I can find are low-fat recipes with weird substitutes. One called for something called "zero fat chicken broth". What the hell is that? I make my own broth from chickens we raise ourselves, the fat is the…
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experience with hip stress fracture/reactions?
I'm halfway through a Learn to Run 10K program and last week began experiencing some hip pain after my runs that was worse after sitting a while. During my last run (yesterday), a fairly easy one of 5 minute run intervals, 1 min walking in between, about 5.2 km, the pain showed up while I was running (first time). It got…
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The best way to estimate TDEE and NEAT
There has been a bit of talk about how best to determine your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) and/or your NEAT (non exercise associated thermogenesis - what you need for everything except intentional exercise). Some formulae are better than others, but all use certain population averages. Obviously, the best way to…
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Should I stretch before running?
I'm halfway into a Learn to Run 10K program and am starting to feel soreness/tightness in a couple of places. One is my right hamstring (I think?), back of my leg, just north of the halfway mark between buttocks and knee. If I am sitting for a while it is very stiff and sore when I get up. It doesn't bother me when I'm…
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do you naturally reach equilibrium?
I've been on MFP for 45 days now, very pleased with the results thus far. Started at 155 lbs, hovering around 147 right now. When I set my goal, I didn't know what to base it on. According to my age and height a healthy weight range is somewhere between 120 and 150. Not exactly precise, is it? I've been down to 138 within…
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Should I get a FitBit?
I exercise almost every day, either by running or walking. Sometimes I cycle and once a week I have a dressage lesson. I'm thinking about getting a Fitbit. Why? Because I really don't know what my true TDEE is and I worry about eating too little or too much. My rate of weight loss is relatively slow since I am not needing…
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A good test to determine if you are undereating to lose?
In learning about the issue of glycogen and water and how that can cause the appearance of rapid weight gain after a "day of indulgence", it occurred to me that perhaps this provides a way to test whether one is, indeed, eating too few calories for ideal weight loss. Let's say that I have a goal of 1300 net calories per…
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How low should you go?
How do you know when you have reached a reasonable weight for yourself? I set a goal for myself to get down to 140 (from 155) but I have successfully gone down to 138 before (twice within the last 15 years, though I was not able to sustain that weight for long because my methods were not sustainable). It would be awesome…
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Spinoff thread: "eating too little then gaining it all back"
On another thread (the one with the Huff Post article about "eat 1200 calories" advice being cause for apology) somebody suggested that if you lose weight by eating too few calories then you will eventually gain it all back because it is not sustainable. Given what I've learned on MFP thus far, I'm wondering why that is…
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Women's Clothing Size
I'm curious to see how much clothing size fluctuates among women. I read posts on here where people talk about how much weight they have lost and what dress size they are now in, and the numbers just don't relate at all to my own experience. I know sizes can differ based on manufacturer, but I thought it would be…
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Rate of weight loss and BMR
I'm fairly new to this calorie counting thing. I joined MFP a couple of weeks ago, entered the profile settings as requested. Starting weight was 154.5 lbs, goal weight 140 lbs, would like to lose 2 lb / week. I'm 5'6, 45 yr old female. Without factoring in exercise I'm lightly active. MFP says I should aim for 1200…
