Goals

To get out of the UK as soon as possible.

Need to lose a few bellypounds to get back to how I used to be, started a new football team so that should help with any luck *+*+*+* eating entire packs of pork pies does not help however, this is science

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Originally Posted by The Don

1. Start a six month bulk in January and then cut over July and August in time for Freshers
2. Finish my access course
3. Save $$ for uni
4. Buy a Bike this month

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Calculate your TDEE on here http://www.iifym.com/tdee-calculator/ then eat 500 less calories. TDEE is your total daily energy expenditure, so essentially it's how many calories you need to eat to maintain your current bodyweight, if you eat under this number you will lose weight (as long as the tdee is accurate). It's roughly said that a 500 calorie deficit amounts to a loss of 1lb of fat per week, a 1000 calorie deficit is around 2lb per week. If you think you're eating a fair bit over your tdee at the moment, download myfitnesspal on your phone and record everything you eat for a week, then after you work out your average consumption lower it by a couple of hundred calories. Myfitnesspal is a great app though, it has a database with pretty much every food known to man built in, you either search the food or scan the barcode and it will find it for you. A few months ago I found out I had put on half a stone and I lost in under 3 weeks using this method. Definitely worth checking out if you're serious about losing weight anyway.

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apparently i need to eat 1418 calories a day to maintain my weight. i've been eating about 300-500 more calories than usual the past 3 weeks. how much realistically am i gonna put on? i'm worried i get to a good weight then im gonna keep putting on weight wahhh

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Originally Posted by buttons

apparently i need to eat 1418 calories a day to maintain my weight. i've been eating about 300-500 more calories than usual the past 3 weeks. how much realistically am i gonna put on? i'm worried i get to a good weight then im gonna keep putting on weight wahhh

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3500 calories is roughly meant to be 1lb of fat, you say you're eating 300-500 more calories than usual but were you definitely eating your tdee before? If you're eating a 500 calorie surplus daily then that's roughly 1lb gained a week.

keeping going to the gym, i like it when i'm there but just ******* hate actually going lol. i just wanna be more toned because i'm the right weight. prob not ever happening because i only ever like doing cardio but u know. bottoms i'm size 6/8 so er that should stay rly

i'm also pretty much destined to fail college at the rate i'm going but my bubs isn't letting me. he's on my case 24/7 about every piece of work until i do it and we argue like every few days because i just wanna give up and drop out which is completely the opposite of my actual goal to go n be a barrister. it's a struggle atm i have 0 motivation but he's sorting me out i just need to keep focused and make somethin out my life. literally the only thing hes ever gotten angry @ me about so i know i need to do it

honestly i over estimate how much i eat cause i can eat a lot but generally i stick to low calories foods so idk. i probably eat roughly that much though.
dunno if myfitnesspal would be any use for me tracking my calories

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Originally Posted by buttons

honestly i over estimate how much i eat cause i can eat a lot but generally i stick to low calories foods so idk. i probably eat roughly that much though.
dunno if myfitnesspal would be any use for me tracking my calories

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It might be interesting for you to use it for a few days just see how accurate your estimate is compared to reality

Yeah eating 3 rice cakes instead of 2 isn't gonna give you a stone even though it's an extra 50% intake, especially if you weren't really eating as much as you're "meant" to originally

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Originally Posted by The Don

Calculate your TDEE on here http://www.iifym.com/tdee-calculator/ then eat 500 less calories. TDEE is your total daily energy expenditure, so essentially it's how many calories you need to eat to maintain your current bodyweight, if you eat under this number you will lose weight (as long as the tdee is accurate). It's roughly said that a 500 calorie deficit amounts to a loss of 1lb of fat per week, a 1000 calorie deficit is around 2lb per week. If you think you're eating a fair bit over your tdee at the moment, download myfitnesspal on your phone and record everything you eat for a week, then after you work out your average consumption lower it by a couple of hundred calories. Myfitnesspal is a great app though, it has a database with pretty much every food known to man built in, you either search the food or scan the barcode and it will find it for you. A few months ago I found out I had put on half a stone and I lost in under 3 weeks using this method. Definitely worth checking out if you're serious about losing weight anyway.

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I had that app before and I got a bit annoyed with it where there are so many food options stored in the app it just got confusing. But that's a good idea, may have to actually stick to it!

Passing exams, getting into a good uni, losing weight. Finding a job that I'll be happy in... sorting life out thus far. Zzzzz