Vr fitness/calorie burn/weight loss

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Thought I'd start up a bit of a calorie tracking thread, and what games you guys are playing and burning in. I did check the past few pages, but I wasn't going to use a search function to resurrect an ancient thread.

Gorilla tag is obviously my game of choice at the moment, and even on fasting days, I'm playing. Yesterday according to Move I burned 900 calories, I don't know how accurate Move is, but I can't imagine it's a million miles away. So far today I'm on 340 calories for a 40 minute session.

I'm currently doing the 5/2 diet, and have been for a fair while now, I was just about pushing 100kg, now I'm holding steady around 90kg, perhaps a little under, I'm thinking the exercise in the quest 2 is probably going to start pushing me down again.

 

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I use FitXR and Thrill Of The Fight for exercise when I can't go running. FitXR also helps for flexibility as you do squats and leans.

I need to lose weight, but my wife keeps making cakes and biscuits as lockdown therapy! Normally I'd be at the office and less tempted to snack.

I've thought about doing the 5/2 diet, as I think that appeals to me more than going keto and giving up on the treats that make lockdown bearable.

I'm a real sucker for baked goods, and chocolate etc. 5/2 makes it easier for me that I don't have to worry on the other days (you obviously can't just binge). Slowly built up a pattern that seems to work for me in terms of how to get through the day without too much trouble.

 

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Sounds good! might give it a go.

Might not suit you, but I try not to have almost any solids. Bit of water in the morning. A large coffee at some point in the afternoon (between 12 and 2 normally), then a large mug of bovril (the salt is very nice) around 4-6pm, then probably around 100mls? of orange juice, in a large mug topped up with hot water, the sugar helps give you a boost I reckon. Then potentially another bovril in the night, and finally a baby bel before bed, to try and get through to the morning .

I didn't start off like that though, found that having biltong etc was a great food to help get me to the end of the day, but as I got used to it, going liquids only (basically) was actually easier. With time, my appetite has shrunk as well, and I don't eat as much in meals as I used to. Still snack a lot of biscuits though!

 

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So apparently I'm upto 1400 calories burned today. All in gorilla quest. I'm absolutely smashed.

 

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Wait you don't eat anything at all? Just liquids?

I believe you can have upto 600 calories. I started off around 500 (some olives, some biltong, some cheese, maybe an egg etc), but now find it's generally easier without solids, I guess my stomach never starts getting into digestion mode, and so the sense of real hunger is held off more easily. So now I'm almost entirely liquids, except the cheese before bedtime (found cheese is good, probably because it helps neutralise stomach acid). I'd guess I have about 200-250 from coffee/bovril/orange juice/chese now.

 

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My quest 2 has been acting a bid odd recently. I hadn't used it for a couple of weeks, and I think it might have updated as now tracking seems jittery, and TOTF seems to miss about 20% of my fast punches where nothing happened before. Any ideas why this might be?

Are you still playing in the same room? No LEDs or reflective surfaces?

Might be you need to do a factory reset.

 

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Just have two meal replacement shakes now. 400 calories total.

Intermittent fasting comes with a lot of benefits, and outside of those two days a week, I eat what I want.