Inbetweenies - not skinny, not fat, need to lose around a stone ...

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azx Mar 2021 9:01am, 2 Mar 2021 46 posts	0 azx Hi Totriornottotri. I also signed up to myfitnesspal. Since I have a withings wifi scale and garmin connect, they all tie up nicely together so can track input and output pretty clearly. My daily goal is 1500 cals but I'm averaging a fair bit under that net of exercise: about 10 hours/week of running and cycling at the moment.
Welshpoppy Mar 2021 9:14am, 2 Mar 2021 607 posts	0 Welshpoppy azx That is darn impressive well done and no extreme calories like 800 !!It would be interesting how tall peeps are as well.Your BMI is where mine is when you started so hope for me yet. Do you recommend those scales? I have Tanita ones but not smart scales.
lammo Mar 2021 9:21am, 2 Mar 2021 10,442 posts	0 lammo nice going azx
azx Mar 2021 9:27am, 2 Mar 2021 47 posts	0 azx Cheers everyone. I love the withings scale I must admit. It can auto-sync with a bunch of other sites so barely have to do anything except look at graphs. Since I'm a bit of a data addict, I log weight and body fat% in a spreadsheet too so I can do my own analysis. As to my height, I'm short, 170cm (sorry, I'm metric only). One of the auto-sync sites I use is trendweight which gives lots of nice stats, though lags a bit since it uses a trailing average. Here's my link: trendweight.com (updates every day).
Rosehip Mar 2021 9:52am, 2 Mar 2021 19,893 posts	0 Rosehip delurks thanks for that site-link azx, I've plotted my weight on here since forever, but that site is great. I linked it to my old Fitbit account, which must be still running in the background, and is still linking into my scales (I have the Qardio ones) it tells me I need to cut my daily cals by an extra 160 to hit 1lb a week loss, which looking at my myfitness pal account is less than the average amount over plan that I tend to be.
Rosehip Mar 2021 9:54am, 2 Mar 2021 19,894 posts	0 Rosehip Fenners - use myfitnesspal for a week or so to log what you eat and drink normally to see where you can make easy changes to start with. Big gains are not always where you assume they will be - unless you eat a packet of biscuits for supper each night
FenlandRunner Mar 2021 10:13am, 2 Mar 2021 5,994 posts	0 FenlandRunner I don't really like biscuits, Rosehip
Totriornottotri Mar 2021 10:13am, 2 Mar 2021 1,464 posts	0 Totriornottotri I normally CNBA with logging but knew I needed to for me to lose the weight. 178cm. Very similar approach to calories and exercise burn. Nice to see I’ve done something right! The mornings are fun because I am ‘fasted’ it becomes a game to not eat until lunch!
Totriornottotri Mar 2021 10:15am, 2 Mar 2021 1,465 posts	0 Totriornottotri Having 1500 cal (plus 400? Of 800 exercise) means you can eat a fair bit for lunch and dinner. Non-alcoholic beer is low calorie. Snacks are tricky to avoid calories dense, non filling food. I’ve had vegan ice cream the last 2 nights!
Rosehip Mar 2021 10:46am, 2 Mar 2021 19,896 posts	0 Rosehip When do you all run if you don't eat breakfast? I can manage up to an hour or so of easy running on an empty stomach, but if I want to do a long run or something hard I really need to eat first. However if my last cals in the evening are ~9 pm and I eat at 10 and run at 11 I've still "fasted" 13 hours - and I think that does help.