Weight / Fat loss

This may be of interest as I presume it gives some idea of effort - heart rate for today.

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Yet another post by me. Weight loss -
Sunday 13 st 11 1/4 lbs
Wednesday 13st 8 lbs

Happy with that provided it doesn’t creep up as it seems to do.

What’s that in meaningful units of measurements?

I have no idea. I’m hoping someone can interpret the graphs. I posted the heart rate to give some idea of effort. The calories on the previous page seem to indicate I am in deficit by 500 cal but how the target 1000 cal figure is reached is a mystery to me

Any help always appreciated.

1/1 - 78.5kg
31/1 - 79kg
7/2 - 79kg
14/2 - 77.7kg
21/2 - 77.4kg

50 mins indoor footie - according to my watch 500 calories used and a black eye. ( the watch didn’t record my eye!)

Is 500 reasonable for 3 a side?

Sounds possible, depends how heavy you are, how hard you ran, etc.

Garmin says I used 716kcal for a recent 58 minutes of outdoor (and cold) 5-a-side, but I'm 95kg.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/2457333134

HRavg was 158bpm, HRmax was 184bpm.

Only 2.64km covered (which includes a couple of stints in goal) but you can see the HR is up throughout the game.

DCR has a (unsurprisingly) detailed page on how Garmin calculates energy burn: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2010/11/how-calorie-measurement-works-on-garmin.html

Thanks for the comparison. I have only had the watch for 11 days and the data is difficult for me to understand.

The footie figures look close to yours. I’m 86.1kg this morning. But I’m old - 50 so that may be a different.

I’m not sure I can get the same detail with the HRM as you can.

Thanks for the info.

If you want to actually get near to replacing what you use, say if you have to back it up day after day, you need to drink your calories. Carb powders and some people like meal replacement type drinks but I've looked into most and they're quite high in fact. Of course, this is a weight loss thread so this info is more for racing/training.

I don't need to be any weight, but the lighter I am, the faster I can climb and most importantly given my ultra history, the less weight is on my sitbones. #shreddies

How did you set it up?

Yeah if I used my fitbit to calculate how much to eat I'd be huge. Not good.

Stagnated fat loss again, need more discipline.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/12086337/Fitbit-heart-rate-tracking-is-dangerously-inaccurate-lawsuit-claims.html

:)

Which do people find must realistic for exercise calorie counting? (using heartrate but not powermeter)

For my usual daily 330 mins of riding I'm getting:
My fitness pal = 2145
Strava = 1820
Garmin = 1383

5 1/2 hours. I would have thought you would use more.

Low speed, 10-12 mph avg on a cargo bike

You ride 330 mins every day?

Courier, so Monday to Friday

I actually found it over-read my heart rate most of the time. Very sensitive to placement.

Just set it up through the app profile, but doesn't give options for recording lean mass or anything. But even then, working off the sensibly conservative muscleforlife calculator, I'd still only be using ~2500 before exercise even if I was only 15% body fat

"The U.S. Olympic swimmer told ESPN that he eats roughly 8,000-10,000 calories a day"
https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20080813/the-olympic-diet-of-michael-phelps

So that's 4000 cal that's just disappeared into the internet...

"Bonci estimates that to support his 6-foot-4-inch, approximately 190-pound frame, Phelps' rigorous training regime requires roughly 1,000 calories per hour while he is racing or training; she suggests he probably eats closer to 6,000 calories per day."

As someone who has actually measured and consumed this amount of calories I'm calling bullshit on this one. Maybe one day he did but there's no fucking way it's regular and almost certainly not the foods he says he eats. For me to consume ~13000 calories I was awake and racing a bike for 24hr and eating almost all carbohydrates in mostly easily digestible liquid, gel (and some bars) form.

If you add fat and protein into that, as he claims, digestion slows right down and it would be heading towards spew time.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/06/michael-phelps-diet-12000-calories-myth-but-still-ate-8000-to-10000-quote

“Don’t believe everything you read. The stories were just ridiculous. I was probably eating anywhere between like 8 to 10 [thousand] probably at my peak where I was really growing. Still, it became a job.”

Fitness trackers are bullshit.

Hahaha I was about to ban him for speaking in tongues.

( not really, TGR, relax :) )

None of them. :)

You ride 5.5hrs a day? You shouldn't be in a weight loss thread. :P

For me it'd be more like 3300 using my rough as guts 300 cal/30min but I'm big and fast fat.

I'll swap you a powermeter for use of your cargo bike :)