Hi,
Sorry for the long post.
I really hope someone can give me some helpful advice here - I'm starting to go a bit crazy!
4 years ago I lost 5 stone, over the course of 2 years. I managed to keep it off mostly but put on a stone at the end of Summer 2014.
I'm tall (6ft) and I'm 34 years old (female) I'm pretty active - I walk 20 mins to work and back every day, and walk around town in my lunch break. That's normally the least active I get. I always either run, cycle, or play netball throughout the week (and quite often all 3 during a weekend)
Since Janurary I've lost 11lbs. Which isn't too bad. But there are weeks (mostly 3 in a row at times) where I lose nothing.
I posted ages ago on myfitnesspal with the same issue and one person that replied gave me the following calculation:
If you have 75+ lbs to lose 2 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 40-75 lbs to lose 1.5 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 25-40 lbs to lose 1 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 15 -25 lbs to lose 0.5 to 1.0 lbs/week is ideal
If you have less than 15 lbs to lose 0.5 lbs/week is ideal
I'd love to do some more research... or find out if there's validity to this... does anyone know?
I'm wearing a fitbit for 2 weeks now (Charge HR with heart rate monitor) and I'm burning on average 2500 cals a day (no sport, but walking the 20 min to work and back) other days I'm burning well over 3000 cals.
I wore my Polar heart rate monitor with a chest strap and it showed the Fitbit tracker was showing a lower heart rate a lot of the time (and therefore estimating a lower calorie burn) So I may well be burning more than Fitbit tells me...?
I had a deficit of 5918 cals not eaten this week so should have lost...
Help me pleeeease!
Thanks 🙂
