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Selecting your "Activity Level"...
Hi All, When selecting your activity level on MFP, do you base your selection on your activity level on how active you are apart from the times when you are specifically exercising to burn of calories (like going to the gym etc) or do you factor in the amounts of times you exercise per week to select whether you are…
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Advice needed re calorie intake vs expenditure
Hi All, I'm a little unsure if MFP has the right calorie goal set for me. I've always gone by what MFP recommends from the information I entered, and I have been mostly achieving my goal to lose 2lb per week. However, yesterday I calculated my TDEE (maintenance level) using the Harris-Benedict formula and found it to be…
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Strength training routine
Just wondered what everyone's strength training routine is at the gym. I do both cardio and strength training at the gym and is my goal is to lose weight initially until I get to a weight I am happy with and then focus a bit more on strength training to get a lean look. I go gym 4 times a week and always do some cardio in…
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Not knowing calorie content of food you've eaten...
Do other MFP users have this problem often? For e.g. my mum made some pasta with minced meat/onions/peppers today and as delicious as it was(!) I have no idea how many calories I must have consumed eating it. I ended up selecting "Gino D'acampo the Italian Diet Pasta With Minced Meat & Onions" from the MFP database as this…
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Does anyone do leg workouts on same day as cardio?
Just wondering if anyone does leg workouts (squats, leg press, leg curl etc) on same day as cardio exercises or do you reserve a day just to work on your legs? I ask as I am thinking of amending my routine and reserving a day just to work on legs and not do cardio on this day as if I try to jog on the treadmill after…
