TheMadEngineer

Thanks, I'll definitely check that out!

Duh, of course. I wasn't thinking. I'll leave it at 20% for now. Thanks!

Like I said, I just went off the page on Nerdfitness that showed bodyfat. I'm not sure how strong I am compared to other people. I know that when I was heavier (~250) several fitness minded friends were talking with me and most thought I weighed around 200. So either I wear the weight well or there is a decent amount of muscle in there. I normally bench press around 250-260 lbs, so I guess I'm fairly strong. Maybe I should bump up the bodyfat percentage in the IIFYM calcuator?

Thanks for the replies everyone. I uninstalled the pedometer app and won't be adding those calories in. I was already not adding my workout calories in. I'm at about 20% bodyfat (using the eye test that NF supplies) , 5' 10" and 224 lbs; I tweaked the IIFYM formula from the "reckless" level to "aggressive" and am now around 2400 calories. I'll try that for the rest of the week and see how it goes. Thanks!

Oh yeah, it's good now. I work for a small systems integration company which treats me really well, and I go to a fairly well-ranked engineering school. I've had some really good professors who've been able to bring the best out of me, and I've worked with some very smart and driven people.

OK. I park almost a mile away from the building where I have my classes everyday because I'm a cheap bastard who doesn't want to pay for parking. I will leave it out anyway. Thanks.

Hello all, I am trying to lose weight. According to the pedometer app on my phone, I am burning 400 calories a day on average. I do a decent amount of walking at work and school. Should I add this to my daily caloric goal? Thank you.

Thanks for stopping in on my quest thread. I like the background story you wrote, am following .

Thank you! I'm now following your quest thread.

1) Signature done. 2) Trying to find a team to join. Don't really want to start one since I'm still not sure what I'm doing. 3) Following Bulwark and my fellow engineer, Tigera.

Well, so far so good! I've gotten two workouts in this week, and I've been staying below my caloric goal. It helps that I walk about 4 miles a day on average between my job and school. I use a pedometer app on my phone to figure out the calories burned. I'm using IIFYM's "aggressive" plan, which means my goal is 2228 cal/day. I usually burn about 300-400 calories walking, of which I add all but 100 to My Fitness Pal. I do not add my workouts as calories burned. Does that make my caloric goal too high? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.

Thank you! No, just electrical. My current focus at school is on communications and signal processing, however my job focuses on control systems. I will be graduating in December of this year. I love the Kennedy quote because it speaks to my own desire to do the hard things in life. I went to high school with a lot of people who didn't have any drive to do anything hard, or special, or out of the ordinary. I like to go against the grain. I took on the one school subject that was really hard for me-math-and made it my life. Now I'm getting my body-which has always been out of shape-and making it better.

Thank you for pointing out the error.

Thanks for following my 1st quest thread man, I'm following you back! Sounds like you're doing a good job so far!

Well my first day (yesterday) went pretty well! Even with a 2 hour thermodynamics test at 7:30 PM I was able to stay under my caloric goal, and fulfill my other quests. BTW, does anyone know how to add tags to posts? Can't seem to figure that out....thanks.