*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

Yeah, but a 1,560 target in the first place is VERY low. I'm aiming at about 2,700 and probably not burning as many calories as that (probably about 600 a day) and I'm still generally on a downward trend for my weight.

Are the exercise figures for running? (As opposed to estimated day to day things?)
 
It is interesting, isn't it. How accurate is all this stuff I wonder? At the end of the day, if it's working, keep doing it. Up to recently I've never tried to replace what I burn from exercise (which meant some days I would be 1,500-2,000 calories in deficit), but I am using it more as an excuse to eat more these days and I think I perhaps need to nip that in the bud, as I said above, I find myself snacking too much at the moment.

Mind you, I'm not trying to loose right now. I think when the clocks change and the weather warms a little, I might have another push and try and get down to 14½ stone, but until then, part of me says take a break from it all and enjoy some food, don't push the exercise to hard.
 
Porridge pretty much every breakfast for the last year. If I'm working an early, usually about 300 cals of Huel around 10am too, with probably a protein bar. If I'm working late or off, I tend to have porridge about 8 / 9am and not much else until lunchtime.
 
Marvt74 said:
For those of you with smart scales. Can they differentiate between people?
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My Withings can (mind you, I think they're expensive too) but I think you would still need to switch between units on the scale. Of course, in each persons app, I assume you can set it to show in whatever you want?

Marvt74 said:
So i always classed myself as sedentary as a worst case with the topping up where needed, although recently i've been much more consistent with running so might just up what i have on a daily basis.
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I'm considering moving more that way myself as my steps can vary greatly from day to day. A day off wouldn't be far from 500. A weekday at work is about 3-4,000 and a weekend at work would be around 8,000. If I go for sedentary than add in an hour walking per 2-3,000 steps, I think I would have a better idea of what I burn each day. Activities then automatically get synced from Strava. Not that I change much what I eat based on calories burnt, but I do a little bit these days.
 
I don't think speed is the important thing. We're looking at steps in a set time. 7,000 in 30 minutes is 233 a minute, or almost 4 steps a second... seriously? Maybe count steps in ten seconds, you should be doing 39 in that time to be doing 7,000 in half an hour. If I jog for 30 minutes it would be about 5,000 steps. As I think about it, I guess to 'walk' at a similar speed to me jogging (which isn't fast, probably about 7mph like you say) you would need a quicker cadence, which I suppose could mean 7,000 steps? Interesting stuff.
 
b00merang69 said:
to do the above I would need tell it I want to do an activity (I would choose walk from menu) and go the walk and then I will it will have the map and time etc etc for that walk.

It should not mess with my normal readings for the day because I need consistency.

At the end of they day I said the time and steps I did not start working out speeds
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Or... as I said... walk as you would for 10 seconds and see if you really do take 39 steps. I'm not after proof as I (we) know it can't be the case. It was more for you to realise yourself that it's wrong. Not that it matters, definitely not to me. As you said, it's more important how you feel, how fit/healthy you have hopefully gotten, I was just wanting to point out you had incorrect figures, no matter how you got them.
 
My evening meal, Huel for about 320 cals, a Protein Brownie for 290... and then a Flake yogurt for 200 cals. (Normally the yogurt is a healthier type... but vending didn't have any) 800 cals and it wasn't a particularly big meal I wouldn't say.

Breakfast (when working an early) is porridge (with Flackseed) for about 250 cals, Huel later on for about 300 cals and a protein bar for 150/200 cals.

At the moment I'm having porridge before bed too, for about 200 cals, but often wake up during the night and have a couple of bars/biscuits for about 200 - 300 cals.

Usually my day finishes around 2,500 to 2,800 cals depending on lunch, but I exercise between 500 and 1,000 cals most days.
 
Being a key worker, not so much changes for me... although I was off last week and did A LOT of cycling at the start of the week. My weight does seem to have plateau'd at this point. The graph on my tracker still has a downward trend, so I guess we'll wait and see, but this morning I weighed in at 15st 3, having been down around 14st 12 at the end of last week. I have generally been eating a few more calories though.

I'm finding, if I have a good day, perhaps I get through my evening meal on about 2,200 cals, I'm just so hungry in the evening I keep snacking more and quite often I'm waking up around 1:30am and have a biscuit or two then too. This is definitely what I need to cut down on as too often I'm consuming 1,000+ calories in the last hour before bed! (Not all of it bad, I always have a bowl of porridge for example)
 
While this COVID-19 situation is going on, my work has opened up the dinning room for free... which is really messing with my calories!!! It's so hard to resist when it doesn't even cost. It almost seems like I'm wasting the opportunity!

Mind you, I'm cranking up the cycling miles now the weather is nice, so maybe I accept I will eat around 4,000 calories a day, because most days I'm burning about 900-1,200 out cycling!
 
Which flavours did you try? I actually look forward to mine. For me it's a little like if someone said McDonald's shakes were good for you and you have to have them for every evening meal.... okay, sure!
 
Now I'm down around my target weight I've been eating around 3,000 cals a day, sometimes poking over that with my evening snacking. Two days ago I weighed in at 15st 4 which is up 6lbs on a few weeks back which got me a little concerned. I looked back on MyFitnessPal at what I are a year ago, when I was hitting 1,700 calories a day... wow... I don't know how I did it tbh. Still, it motivated me to do better and I was coming in last night around 1,900, so I let myself have an extra protein bar before bed. Then I had a bad nights sleep and used two more snacks to help me sleep through :( lol. Still finished at 2,500 which isn't too bad. Weight myself this morning and I'm back to 14st 13 again already. I think two days ago I weighed myself too close to having eaten a lot (purely in volume) a few days before. You have to give your body 3 days to process and pass it all I think. Still, I was panicing that mabe my 3,000+ days were catching up on me, but I don't think they were. I'll aim at 2,750 for the moment though, with lots of cycling still. (The fact that I think three people said to me yesterday 'are you still losing weight?!' should tell me it's all fine)
 
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