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After buying an MS band I've found its motivated me to do a minimum 10,000 steps a day. I make sure my lunch hour is spent walking. The calorie burn is as good as a 5K run (according to Band information) and it takes the pressure off trying to run when I get home. I generally find that I get home and my son is so happy to see me that my time is taken up with him until his bed time @7.30ish so after this I can't get the motivation together to run.

On top of this I linked the band to another app called My Fitness Pal. This has let me set up a weight loss goal and tells me what calories I should consume, I then enter the food I eat each day into a diary and it adds the steps\runs from the band and tells me what I'm doing.

I was surprised to see the calories in fruit which even when on a diet I used to treat as calorie free! Also booze was a shock as well. I've cut my drinking down so that I'm not hungover on a weekend and can do stuff with my son, even though I will have 4 large beers on a weekend night which is 1200 calories plus some crisps.

Overall a real eye opener and I'm finding the whole thing really useful with diet\exercise

I have stopped looking at calories, just eating healthily, my weight is coming off steadily. I have seen a sports nutritionist about fuel properly. What has surprised me is that I need over 3000 calories a day, more when i run lots.

It is tricky balancing my diabetes and fuel, but it seems to working. My diabetes is under control, might see about coming off my meds at my next review.

My new sports watch is awesome, does a lot more than my last, and has a manual of 155+ pages

I do know the delete and save are the opposite way round

I'm using at calories really to help with healthy eating what I like about the fitness app is that even if you eat within the calorie count it will warn you that you are consuming sugar, sodium etc over you daily allowance.

Last night I had some Brie which was well in calories but I blew my fat allowance for the day:)

I like this over diets like slimming world that say "its a red day eat as much steak as you want"!

I gave up on tracking calories after about 2 weeks, it's so fucking monotonous and my weight didn't change at all.

I eat what I fancy and if I have a day where I overdo it I try and balance it out the day after. I focus mostly on protein to support my lifting, good fats and veg. Consume very little fruit because of the sugar content and drink mostly water and black coffee (and vodka).

My weight is the most stable it's been in years so I think I'm doing OK.

I'm down about 10 pounds since the start of the year which is fine - it's my usual pattern of eating and drinking too much over winter, and not doing enough exercise when I can't cycle easily. As long as I keep off the snacks and carry on cycling to work a couple of days a week I'll be heading in the right direction, then this year I'm going to join a gym once the clocks change and I'm in the car every day.

Got rid of 6 pounds since Monday!

Had this happen before when I've done Slimming World diets, just bloat and water I guess

Still a good start

Awesome start.

My latest idea is I'm going to set up my rowing machine in the garage and then re-watch all of Breaking Bad, while rowing, perhaps at the rate of half an hour a day or so. According to my gym bunny colleague a rowing machine is very good all round exercise. Going to get out running again too.

I'm finding that if you can get out for an hour of walking at lunchtime plus keeping a sensible moderate diet that that is working. I'm eating normally but weighing the odd thing mostly to enter into my food diary.

Running is a bonus which I like to do but not necessary all the time for calories in fact in can be a bit much, I did 21,000 steps yesterday including a 5K run and found myself wanting more too eat last night.

Weekend will be a challenge as I find it easy to keep of crap food and beer within the routine of work but always find myself thinking I deserve a beer after a long week at work etc

I don't particularly struggle with weight, I've been 70 kilos plus or minus 2 kilos for twenty odd years. I just prefer it when I'm feeling fitter and walking by itself doesn't really do it for me, I do walk each day at lunchtime as well but unless I do something that gets my heart rate right up then I feel as though I've not done anything.

Aye, that was my biggest lesson from the months I spent tracking my calorie intake recently. During the week I run a relatively large calorie deficit but as soon as I go to the pub of a weekend that's it all blown to shit and is probably the reason why my weight loss has frustratingly plateaued. I'm cutting my drinking down anyway because these days, especially with the CFS, a hangover just kills me with fatigue but hopefully cutting out that massive calorie spike--plus the extra activity I'll hopefully be able to do of a weekend due to not being hungover--will bring some differences.

I can't get rid of my big fat belly (mainly because I eat a lot of shit, probably), and I don't seem to be any fitter in terms of running at the moment.

I am, however, noticeably stronger. So at least that's something from the agony my MMA trainer puts me through.

That is good

My body seems to just ache all the time

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Got on the scales yesterday, a day before my weekly weigh in and had lost 8lbs

We had a load of people round yesterday and I had a burger and a couple of ciders, all within the calorie count but I feel a bit bloated this morning

Well done

(not on the burger and beer)

Hook it up to a generator that powers the TV (like the battery charger in series 2!) and you'll have to row!

Against the run of tradition, I went on a bike ride. I took RED BIKE out because it is a MOUNTAIN BIKE and has lower gears to CONQUER ESCARPMENTS and stuff. 18 long miles I toiled around the old pack horse trails and saw some people. I thought I saw a zebra at one stage, but as I got closer, it was a horse wearing a fancy coat, so that was a massive disappointment 'nall.


This bit was really, really nice. And i liked it very much indeed.

This is Altar Lane. It is a big hill. It is steep at the beginning, then flattens a little bit, then steepens, then steepens some more and then just relents a little. I was using a 22x32 and that wasn't enough. At all. Still, as a marker for progress, it'll be good. Onwards and upwards and not only halfway when you stop because you think you are going to faint. Rule 5 and all that. Just checked, that was my worst ever time up the hill.

Lost 11lbs in 2 weeks, running once or twice a week and also getting 13000-20000 steps a day in

Trying to aim for 20000 a day now

Keeping a diary of what I eat and most days with the exercise have a 1000 calories over.

Consuming less booze and fruit but not going diet mad, had drinks at home at the weekend and went to Loch Fyne last night and had chips!

Think I will see less dramatic results from weight loss this week as this will settle down, also have a big night out in London to navigate with my brother this Friday

That is really good.. well done.

I've noticeably put on a bit of weight in the time I was off sick and I want to get fit for baseball next season, so I've decided to start running again. I've not done this in earnest for a few years, so I'm pretty happy with my first run - sub-30m 5K.

Nice work - that looks a little light on the calories (as in - understated, if anything - seems a bit harsh) so I think you can have an extra pat on the back for the effort you put in.

Yeah, I was thinking that. I know you're probably lighter than me, but I did a 10 mile ish hike with my 12 year old son on Monday and Strava said that came in at over 2000 calories! I know I gained a fair amount of altitude too, but still it's not going to be 6* the calorie burn from only 3 times the distance traveled (and running consumes more calories than walking anyway)

Running didn't consume as many more calories than walking as you might think.

http://www.runnersworld.com/peak-perfor ... l-you-burn

That's about what I thought actually.

running burns more because with each step you are lifting your body further from the floor than walking and is slightly less efficient. Other than that, it doesn't really matter how fast you go, just how far.

cals/min is very important there, as I only have about 30-60 mins per day to exercise. It's three times as much. If I wanted to burn off the same calories I'd have to walk for more than 1.5 hours.

Lost 15lbs to date, loss has slowed to around 2lb a week, if I have a larger day over a weekend then I may gain a 1Lb but I loose that and another by the middle of the next week.

Feel a lot better more energy etc and don't feel like I'm sacrificing much in food and drink, have a beer or a burger now and again just not all the time!

Looking to ditch another 15Lbs so hopefully will be close by the end of the year

From the same website, so

http://www.runnersworld.com/weight-loss ... eight-loss

The first article was also saying that running was better than walking - but it had comparisons of the calorie burn.

Yeah, as a rule of thumb, you'll burn more calories the faster you run, and slightly more running than walking*, but that's not the only place you make a difference - if you run 5k in 30 minutes, and someone else walks it in 60, you will burn similar numbers of calories over the 5k. But the runner then has another 30 minutes burning calories, even if they're just sitting down. Plus for some of that resting 30mins, they'll have an elevated heart rate and metabolism.

*the difference is greater than I thought, from that article.

You should hook it up to power your TV set-up, so you have to row at a rate high enough to power the output

Shhhhh...

I am going for a run then having a baseball batting session straight after.

Pray for me

OMG, etc. Good luck. Or, given that it's now several hours after your post - I hope you are collapsed in a chair somewhere that isn't an emergency medical facility.

Did Myp make it back, #findMyp

Unfortunately he did

Yes, I survived. Then played baseball again yesterday. Going for another run after work.

excellent..

I am sore after my swim last night.

In 50 mins I did:-

200m warm up

4 x 50 (20 seconds rest between sets)
4 x 50 (10 seconds)
4 x 50 (5 seconds)

4 x 75 (20 Seconds)
2 x 100 (10 Seconds)
2 x 50 (5 seconds)

I think I am ready for the swimming part of my tri now

Just finished my first ever triathlon!!!!

Given that I only started to learn how to ride a bike in April, and I hate running with a passion, I genuinely never thought I would ever see the day - I am no longer a totally useless sporty person! WHOOP!

Tired now.

Well done!

[quote]Just finished my first ever triathlon!!!!

Given that I only started to learn how to ride a bike in April, and I hate running with a passion, I genuinely never thought I would ever see the day - I am no longer a totally useless sporty person! WHOOP!

Tired now.[/quote

I know I will never do this, so well done,an excellent effort.

It seems a weekend of 1st triathlons.

Down to 13 stone 11lbs now, but its getting harder to keep the 2lbs a week drop now.

Having a few drinks on a weekend now, thinking I've got over confident about these calories.

Also the nights are drawing in and my son wants to walk now when we go out on a weekend, so 3 months ago I would go out for 3 hours with him in the pram and stop at parks etc whilst still getting loads of steps in, now its still 3 hours with him walking and stopping every 10 minutes to look at something or play on the floor with his car So weekend has become a real struggle to get the same steps in

So on the wagon now until Xmas and doing more in the week.

Filled my car boot with clothes today, a load of 36 inch and some 38 inch "January" trousers among other things as part of a overall junk clearance at home. I'm never going back, I'm 34 and need a belt now

Well done you! Keep going, even though it's getting harder - that just means you've gone really far

Down to 78.5kg now. Waist size down from 36 to 33.

I wouldn't recommend anyone follow my weight loss program though.

Hopefully lose a little more on my tum n tits then keep myself that way. Keep thinking of doing a fun run or something next year depending on how my recovery continues.

Don't lose your boobs: they're your best bit.

You'll have to make do with my inner beauty. You've got Russ's boobs now anyway.

IT'S JUST NOT THE SAME!

Lost 2 Stone 3 lbs now.

Waist is between 34 and 32. Smallest trousers I have are 34 and I need a belt for those.

Taking today off for a few reasons including taking my son to the local fun pool. Found my swimming shorts no longer fitted so bought some new ones yesterday

My size in these is now medium, can't remember the last time I was a medium anything clothes wise

That is awesome...

it is great when all your clothes are too big, expensive but great.