Stop the grazing. Look aMAYzing. Slenderistas spring into action to lose 7lbs in May

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May the force of the Linda be with you as we aim for 7lbs off in a month

Here's a link to the April thread

My BMR is completely fucked, an internet calculation can't allow for someone who can hardly walk and whose body is intent on doing anything it possibly can, wrong (yesterday I got the news that my retinal nerves are growing myelin, for a recent example)

Which is my explanation for why I struggle to lose weight on so many other diets. For me it has to be make do with broth and sadness, or it ain't going anywhere!!

And trust me, with a history of disordered eating I tried everything else first. But I need a serious calorie deficit to lose

Picked a random calculator, and my bmr is apparently 1810.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!! 🤣

Broth and Sadness Diet (TM)

I am thinking of a book deal if you want to get in on that Beyond

Sounds like a plan, hairspray 👍

This time next year we'll be millionaires, slender millionaires!

Two separate BMR calculators say 1420 or 1350

That's only a difference of 70 calories so pretty accurate

Average it out at about 1400 for bmr.

Just had lunch - mushroom risotto, broccoli and cauliflower, and then a whitworth toffee and pecan shot (one of my favourite foods ever!). Casserole will be for dinner (followed by the other half a punnet of strawberries) as it's already made and DH has loads to do this evening :)

Hairspray's one says BMR = 1325, TDEE = 1590/1822 depending on whether I put sedentary or lightly active. Someone with a TDEE of 2000 calories doing 5:2 and eating 5x2000 + 2x500 would have a calorie deficit across the week of 3000 calories. If I do 1200 a day I have a calorie deficit across the week of 2730 (with lower TDEE) - so 1200 ought to be absolutely fine for me if I'm not exercising too much. If I whack up the exercise I can afford another couple of hundred calories - ie, eat back exercise.

I thought you should never eat your exercise back?

So did I! But that's the difference between TDEE, I suppose - how much exercise you're doing. I also suspect that when I do 5:2 or No S the reason I don't lose is because I probably eat way over 1590 on normal days. So I guess tracking is the way to go even if it is boring until I get used to smaller portions.

I would also imagine that if you exercise for hours and hours a day you need more to function than someone who is sedentary...

That's my excuse anyway

Hello! I turn my back for one morning and the thread has gone all "here's the science bit" on my ass!

I am the opposite of Quim in that I need to keep grinding on through weeks and weeks of 1200 calories a day without so much as the sniff of a treat or I just cannot get back on the wagon after a blow out.

I sound like a whole bundle of laughs don't I?

Beyond I'm sorry to hear your retinal nerves are playing silly beggars

TV that's a brilliant result! Don't bother getting that shirt altered just yet would be my advice

Beyond your museli casserole punctuation confusion so reminded me of e*

Oh don't worry about it BOOP - they probably just felt left out as the rest of my body is doing what it feels like

I've just ordered sparkling cranberry juice as my replacement for wine night tomorrow. My friends will be worried!!

It is a struggle when you are near to food all day, over coming the filing cabinet of treats at work was a big deal for me, could you try gum or something so if you want to eat something there is already something else in your mouth?

BSD works but you have to stick to it, I am hoping for a good loss this month, I have a night out 3rd of June with old school friends, they are all much slimmer than me and I often feel like the mantee of the group.

But if I am 10st ish by then I will be almost the same weight as them put together so won't stick out so much

It is a struggle when you are near to food all day, over coming the filing cabinet of treats at work was a big deal for me

Hairspray I feel your pain.

That is the one saving grace of being off work, no biscuits.

It was hell when I was there. A birthday every week.

BOOP I was reliving memories of being in science class... I hated science...couldn't wait to drop physics as a subject...

I did get a bit curious though and googled them....think I need 1450 calories to do nothing and 1750 for my embarassingly low exercise lifestyle.

Like Quim and Hairspray I do like to care a bit less at weekends though

Hairspray you will resemble a rake come 3rd June

Goodish day so far, soup for lunch and chicken with frozen Yorkshire puddings and veg for tea. However, I ate 3 small toffees during a very boring training session

3 days in and a Linda down. Had a shed load of vegetables tonight, and no alcohol. Just got to keep at it. It's going to be a slow process.

Welcome to all the new people on the thread!

Another day on track if I don't lose anything this week I will be gutted!

Just hit my step goal and I'm on 797 cals for the day. Boo ya!!

Beyond I admire your humour with your health troubles. My health isn't the best. Yet I did a headstand today just to show it I'm in charge. Ha.

Thank you stellar. Shit happens, I'm in a much better place now than I have been in the past

You show that bastard who's boss!!

Had an distinctly un-golden end to my "fast" day today. I ended up staying late at work and by the time I left I was completely starving, so I got chips on the way home . Still works out at about 1000 calories in total for the day so not TOO awful. Tomorrow will be better though. I'm going to get up early and cycle to work or at least I will try to