I’ve been doing HIIT for just over a month now. I get in app. 36 minutes (with warm up and cool down) 2 or 3 times a week on my bike. I also cycle around functionally several times a week where I leasurely cycle at about 25km/hour and do a lot of stairs. Oh and the occasional swim. Does that put me in the Sedentary or Lightly Active category for my TDEE? I know people tend to overestimate their amount of exercice so I thought I’d ask the good folks over here.

Hi @simcoeluv, I always love your posts, very informative and often very funny. They’ve been a huge help to me.

Hi @lorraine11, I know exactly what you mean. I’ve been trying to stay well below my sedentary TDEE as not to mess up my progress. I don’t mind things going slowly but we don’t want to sabotage our efforts now, don’t we? I’ve now calculated my lightly active TDEE but aiming to still stay under my sedentary TDEE – which is 300 calories under my lightly active TDEE – just not as steeply as before. So I can relax just a tad but know I’m still have calorific breathing space. congrats on almost getting there, I love hearing everyone’s success stories on here. I’m less than 8 lbs away from a BMI of 25 and less than 14 lbs from my 1st GW. Let’s keep on going, right? 😉

I do Monday’s and Thursday’s. I’ve tried it a few times fasting with just one day in between but I felt they were a bit close and I started feeling a bit bloated by the end of the week, with 5 days of not fasting in between.

I hope you had a great weekend.