[VanillaTwilight]

(Original post by Lu-x)
Yes that's right (1200 - 1588 - 300). You need to be deficient in 3500 calories to lose a pound, so it'll take you about approx. 5 days to lose a pound (though in reality a lot of other factors come in to play with weight loss). There's a bit of uncertainty about whether you should eat back the 300 exercise calories if your only eating 1200 calories already. Make sure your diet is still balanced with the right proportions of carbs, protein, fat and vitamins. www.myfitnesspal.com is a handy tool to help you set goals healthily and plan your food, and theres an iphone app too. With the exercise it might be good to set goals too, as doing the same thing on the treadmill will be both boring and your body will become 'adjusted' to it so you'll burn less calories doing the same thing. Try increasing your distance or pace each time, or add in some other form of exercise. Good luck

Thanks . Yeahh I'm going to try different things with exercising (hopefully!). I read online that the 1200 calories diet was a good place to start, hence that's why I was planning on going for it. Is that too little amount of calories to consume in one day ?

Is that site free to sign-up btw ?

(Original post by ily_em)
The deficit will be a bit more than that... your BMR is what you'd burn if you were in a coma or something, but obviously just general daily moving about will burn calories too. You might get a better estimate here: http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/calories-burned.php

Thank-you

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How do you guys do it!? How do youse stop the temptation of eating junk food!? Any tips will be greatly appreciated!

[amizzle91]

Hai guyz

I'm looking for recommendations for digital bathroom scales. The one we have at the moment isn't digital and it's old and unreliable. I'm fed up of paying 50p every time to weigh myself at Boots

Looking to spend no more than £30 really. I know that won't buy me anything spectacular but it's gotta be better than what I've got currently!

[GloriaPenguin]

Gained 3 pounds.
Feel like crying. I was okay with it in the morning but I didn't get to go to the gym this evening and I recently upped my calories to break out of my plateau but I've managed to almost eat over them.

[Lu-x]

(Original post by amizzle91)
Hai guyz

I'm looking for recommendations for digital bathroom scales. The one we have at the moment isn't digital and it's old and unreliable. I'm fed up of paying 50p every time to weigh myself at Boots

Looking to spend no more than £30 really. I know that won't buy me anything spectacular but it's gotta be better than what I've got currently!

Always found Salter bathroom scales too be quite good & reliable

[outlaw-torn]

I wish Easter chocolate would go away! I'm 20 and I got 4 Easter Eggs AND 3 Creme Eggs. I love my family but ugh!

Oh well, when I go back to uni next week it shall all be gone!
Just been on nearly an hour walk with my brother and my dog, all uphill, so I think I've earnt myself a bagel.

[amizzle91]

(Original post by Lu-x)
Always found Salter bathroom scales too be quite good & reliable

Cheers - seen some reasonably priced Salter ones so when student loan comes through I'm buying!

[lolo66]

(Original post by Floob)
Had a really good easter weekend with the boy. First time I've 'done easter' in 5 years and it was like being a little kid again. In Holland you would usually have a massive easter brunch as the main meal with eggs, easter bread (like stollen), jewish passover crackers, hard boiled painted eggs and small chocolate eggs. So I pulled out all the stops and made the bread myself and found the crackers in Tesco. We painted our hard boiled eggs and with 2 packets of small chocolate eggs had an easter egg hunt

So not great food wise, but so much fun.
We did go for a run together on Saturday which I think makes up for a lot. I hadn't run in 4 weeks and the boy is training for a marathon and naturally runs faster than me anyway which was pretty much a recipe for disaster BUT I made him run at my 'slow pace' and we did 7.1km in 41.19
Fastest I've ever done that route but still sore from it now

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Today has been an extension of all the easter food, but I dragged myself out for another run. 4.7km this time.

I'm half dutch hoi

[Chrisateen]

(Original post by GloriaPenguin)
Gained 3 pounds.
Feel like crying. I was okay with it in the morning but I didn't get to go to the gym this evening and I recently upped my calories to break out of my plateau but I've managed to almost eat over them.

How many calories have you been eating in the last week and how much exercise have you been doing? Its typical when one is on a plateau to have a small weight gain (well that's what happened to me also when I plateaued)

[marmalady]

(Original post by Chrisateen)
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Sort of related but going off on a tangent here: I read earlier that to bust out of your plateau you upped your cals to, was it 2200 per day? I know you make your deficit through exercise alone but was wondering if you eat 2200 on rest/non-gym days too?

Asking because since Friday I've started a new plan: eating a flat 1800 every single day (and not logging my exercise cals unless I know they've taken me under 1200 net) to bust out of my plateau but am interested in what has worked for others in case this doesn't work for me.
Did you/do you struggle to eat the full 2200 without resorting to rubbish foods? I'll admit I've actually struggled today with trying to get 1800 healthy cals into me. It had been okay for the past few days what with all the Easter chocs around, but today for example I've had to resort to olive oil/balsamic vinegar for a salad dressing (which I don't particularly like) to get me closer to 1800.

[outlaw-torn]

I love Supersize vs Superskinny!

[*GoLdSeQuIn*]

(Original post by outlaw-torn)
I love Supersize vs Superskinny!

It makes me wonder what life would be like if I was too skinny. Reckon I could fatten myself within a weekend tbh!

[Chrisateen]

(Original post by marmalady)
Sort of related but going off on a tangent here: I read earlier that to bust out of your plateau you upped your cals to, was it 2200 per day? I know you make your deficit through exercise alone but was wondering if you eat 2200 on rest/non-gym days too?

Asking because since Friday I've started a new plan: eating a flat 1800 every single day (and not logging my exercise cals unless I know they've taken me under 1200 net) to bust out of my plateau but am interested in what has worked for others in case this doesn't work for me.
Did you/do you struggle to eat the full 2200 without resorting to rubbish foods? I'll admit I've actually struggled today with trying to get 1800 healthy cals into me. It had been okay for the past few days what with all the Easter chocs around, but today for example I've had to resort to olive oil/balsamic vinegar for a salad dressing (which I don't particularly like) to get me closer to 1800.

Yes I eat 2220 calories each day regardless of whether or not I exercise or not. When I first upped my calories it was really hard however after a while I wondered how on earth I use to survive on 1200 calories a day and go to the gym 6 days a week and burn 1000 calories each session. Eating it through healthy meals alone can be really difficult though and its very easy to eat junk in order to make up the calories.

However you plan sounds reasonable and hopefully by sticking to it for a few weeks the weight will start shifting again

[betty_w]

Breakfast: porridge with apple and raisins
Lunch: potato, onion and cheese omelette with tomato. Small slice of puff-pastry apple pie with yoghurt and strawberries
Snacks: granola, mini mars bar (from easter egg)
Dinner: (feeling kinda ill, so not a proper meal) 2 slices of wholemeal toast with peanut butter. Yoghurt with fruit

Was planning on going for a run this evening but felt ill so didn't think it would be such a good idea.. Quite disappointed, as I was actually looking forward to it!

[Yellow-nutshell]

I'm an idiot. Came home from the gym and made dinner and then went to track all my food. Was pleased that I'd managed to pretty much get to 1200 (3 under). Then realised I hadn't tracked my exercise....
So I was so careful in making sure I didn't go over when eating my dinner then to find out I still had about 400 calories left!! Ended up eating more dinner (pasta) with added cheese, and treated myself to a dairy milk bar

Ended up about 40 under goal, but this is because I had a 'brunch' rather than separate brekkie and lunch. Absolutely stuffed after eating so much pasta! 5 mile run tomorrow morning I think, and then I'm off to paint pottery like children do at birthday parties. I'm SO excited by this

[Lu-x]

(Original post by outlaw-torn)
I wish Easter chocolate would go away! I'm 20 and I got 4 Easter Eggs AND 3 Creme Eggs. I love my family but ugh!

Oh well, when I go back to uni next week it shall all be gone!
Just been on nearly an hour walk with my brother and my dog, all uphill, so I think I've earnt myself a bagel.

Haha I had 5 plus a massive box of malteasers. Dumped a couple of the eggs off on the bf, and I'm limiting myself to a little bit each day. So far so well

Ahh just ran 5k, plus 20 min swim and some weight training. Feel goooood

[Yellow-nutshell]

(Original post by Chrisateen)
Yes I eat 2220 calories each day regardless of whether or not I exercise or not. When I first upped my calories it was really hard however after a while I wondered how on earth I use to survive on 1200 calories a day and go to the gym 6 days a week and burn 1000 calories each session. Eating it through healthy meals alone can be really difficult though and its very easy to eat junk in order to make up the calories.

How do you burn off so much!? What do you do? I manage to burn about 500 tops in an hour

[Chrisateen]

(Original post by Yellow-nutshell)
How do you burn off so much!? What do you do? I manage to burn about 500 tops in an hour

The two things i found that burns the most calories in the shortest period of time is the steeper and the treadmill. So I do one of the following

1 hour on the steeper (at a speed of about 100 steps per min)
1 hour on the treadmill (run over 11km in an hour) and then about 10 mins on the steeper
5 km on the treadmill (about 26mins) then about 40 mins on the steeper

[Yellow-nutshell]

(Original post by Chrisateen)
The two things i found that burns the most calories in the shortest period of time is the steeper and the treadmill. So I do one of the following

1 hour on the steeper (at a speed of about 100 steps per min)
1 hour on the treadmill (run over 11km in an hour) and then about 10 mins on the steeper
5 km on the treadmill (about 26mins) then about 40 mins on the steeper

Ahh this makes more sense. I tend to stick to just half an hours cardio at the gym then do weights. What speed do you run on the treadmill?

I've never got the hang of the stepper thing...people make it look so easy. I tried the 'wave' machine today? Looks like you're skiing. Well, I definitely did not look like a graceful skier. More like an injured animal

[Chrisateen]

(Original post by Yellow-nutshell)
Ahh this makes more sense. I tend to stick to just half an hours cardio at the gym then do weights. What speed do you run on the treadmill?

I've never got the hang of the stepper thing...people make it look so easy. I tried the 'wave' machine today? Looks like you're skiing. Well, I definitely did not look like a graceful skier. More like an injured animal

Between 11-12km per hour is my speed.

The stepper is really hard to do properly which is why most people don't do it in the gym. Its funny when I see people try to do it then after a minute they give up and walk away because they can't keep up. Took me months before I was able to do it no stop without resting on the sides. Plus most people who do it don't do it properly as they rest on the sides when they should only slightly hold it for balance.

[outlaw-torn]

I just can't stop binge eating