Doing everything right, not losing.
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »You are logging running and walking PLUS getting credit for them through your fitbit. You are double dipping.
No, it's not, the exercise logged goes to the Fitbit and overrides whatever the Fitbit recorded.
Except she's logging it in MFP, plus has her fitbit synced.0 -
Liftng4Lis wrote: »Liftng4Lis wrote: »You are logging running and walking PLUS getting credit for them through your fitbit. You are double dipping.
No, it's not, the exercise logged goes to the Fitbit and overrides whatever the Fitbit recorded.
Except she's logging it in MFP, plus has her fitbit synced.
Exactly! I just noticed that lis!
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »Liftng4Lis wrote: »You are logging running and walking PLUS getting credit for them through your fitbit. You are double dipping.
No, it's not, the exercise logged goes to the Fitbit and overrides whatever the Fitbit recorded.
Except she's logging it in MFP, plus has her fitbit synced.
When you log it in MFP, it asks you for the time and duration of the exercise. That is then sent to Fitbit and overrides what the Fitbit recorded. Since she's just doing step-based exercise, she could just skip this process.
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »Liftng4Lis wrote: »You are logging running and walking PLUS getting credit for them through your fitbit. You are double dipping.
No, it's not, the exercise logged goes to the Fitbit and overrides whatever the Fitbit recorded.
Except she's logging it in MFP, plus has her fitbit synced.
When you log it in MFP, it asks you for the time and duration of the exercise. That is then sent to Fitbit and overrides what the Fitbit recorded. Since she's just doing step-based exercise, she could just skip this process.
I will try just relying on the fitbit adjustment instead of logging exercise into MFP.0 -
Liftng4Lis wrote: »Liftng4Lis wrote: »You are logging running and walking PLUS getting credit for them through your fitbit. You are double dipping.
No, it's not, the exercise logged goes to the Fitbit and overrides whatever the Fitbit recorded.
Except she's logging it in MFP, plus has her fitbit synced.
When you log it in MFP, it asks you for the time and duration of the exercise. That is then sent to Fitbit and overrides what the Fitbit recorded. Since she's just doing step-based exercise, she could just skip this process.
I will try just relying on the fitbit adjustment instead of logging exercise into MFP.
I would definitely try that and see where you end up with your adjustment. Plus it'll be a lot easier.
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Liftng4Lis wrote: »Liftng4Lis wrote: »You are logging running and walking PLUS getting credit for them through your fitbit. You are double dipping.
No, it's not, the exercise logged goes to the Fitbit and overrides whatever the Fitbit recorded.
Except she's logging it in MFP, plus has her fitbit synced.
When you log it in MFP, it asks you for the time and duration of the exercise. That is then sent to Fitbit and overrides what the Fitbit recorded. Since she's just doing step-based exercise, she could just skip this process.
I will try just relying on the fitbit adjustment instead of logging exercise into MFP.
This is what I do. I don't log my exercise.
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Instead of logging exercise calories every time you work out, which seems to be giving you crazy blown up numbers, you could try the Scooby IIFYM method of determining how many calories to eat. Google Scooby's Workshop and go to the calculators they have.0
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Thank you everyone for your advice! I'm going to try just relying on my fitbit to log my exercise and see if that starts making the scale drop.0
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Good luck! I know there are many of us here who use this method successfully. It does take some time and patience and potentially some adjustments, but with the tight food logging you have, it will work out. I rely on my fitbit almost exclusively and I've lost weight at the rate predicted. I've only ever logged a few swimming sessions which my fitbit can't capture on its own.0
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No matter how much you think you are, if you are not losing weight .... you are not at a deficit.
It's that simple.
You are eating too much for the weight loss you seek.
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I'm 270lbs / Female and 1hr 45mins of hard off-road mountain biking yesterday burned 820 cals for me, I use a heart rate monitor.
To burn 1500 a day I'd be absolutely knackered..
1hr 15mins in the gym, (40 mins stationary bike, 20 mins walk, 15 mins weights) is around 450cals.
Just to give you an idea as I weigh similar to you.0 -
Hey guys.
For almost a month, I've been eating at a deficit and went from exercising 3 days a week to 6. At least 30 minutes per day, I run, some days I walk for another 30-40 minutes on top of running, and do strength 2-3x a week. I'm 5'11 and currently weigh 260. I originally started at 302 2 years ago and have been stuck at around 260 for a year. I weigh my food and log religiously. I also wear a fitbit charge so I know how much I'm moving. When I started getting back into it, I lost 3 pounds, but at TOM I gained it back, and even though TOM is over, it hasn't left. I am always under my calorie goal of 1780, other than one or two off days where I went over by less than 100 and one random maintenance day. Why is the weight not coming off? I am working my butt off and getting nowhere. So frustrating!
Lots of cups, tablespoons, pieces, slices etc. in your logging instead of weights..0 -
stevencloser wrote: »Hey guys.
For almost a month, I've been eating at a deficit and went from exercising 3 days a week to 6. At least 30 minutes per day, I run, some days I walk for another 30-40 minutes on top of running, and do strength 2-3x a week. I'm 5'11 and currently weigh 260. I originally started at 302 2 years ago and have been stuck at around 260 for a year. I weigh my food and log religiously. I also wear a fitbit charge so I know how much I'm moving. When I started getting back into it, I lost 3 pounds, but at TOM I gained it back, and even though TOM is over, it hasn't left. I am always under my calorie goal of 1780, other than one or two off days where I went over by less than 100 and one random maintenance day. Why is the weight not coming off? I am working my butt off and getting nowhere. So frustrating!
Lots of cups, tablespoons, pieces, slices etc. in your logging instead of weights..
To be fair, it doesn't mean much. I weigh everything but my diary has a lot of cup entries too, I'm just too lazy to make my own entries when I know that one cup of yogurt is 227g, or 1/2 cup of oatmeal is 40g etc.
Although I do question the perfect 6oz potatoes and that sort of things, but it could just be eyeballing from eating out.0 -
Liftng4Lis wrote: »Liftng4Lis wrote: »You are logging running and walking PLUS getting credit for them through your fitbit. You are double dipping.
No, it's not, the exercise logged goes to the Fitbit and overrides whatever the Fitbit recorded.
Except she's logging it in MFP, plus has her fitbit synced.
When you log it in MFP, it asks you for the time and duration of the exercise. That is then sent to Fitbit and overrides what the Fitbit recorded. Since she's just doing step-based exercise, she could just skip this process.
Say I do something that isn't step based- like lifting weights or playing Wii fit- should I log THAT into mfp?0 -
Liftng4Lis wrote: »Liftng4Lis wrote: »You are logging running and walking PLUS getting credit for them through your fitbit. You are double dipping.
No, it's not, the exercise logged goes to the Fitbit and overrides whatever the Fitbit recorded.
Except she's logging it in MFP, plus has her fitbit synced.
When you log it in MFP, it asks you for the time and duration of the exercise. That is then sent to Fitbit and overrides what the Fitbit recorded. Since she's just doing step-based exercise, she could just skip this process.
Say I do something that isn't step based- like lifting weights or playing Wii fit- should I log THAT into mfp?
You can (although fitbit will still give you calories for steps made during those things), but MFP is still going to give you greatly overestimated calorie burns for them, so you'd probably be better off not doing so for a while at least. If you start losing more than expected, then it's something you can consider, but right now I think you'd be much better served not logging so many "bonus" calories.0 -
Thank you everyone for your advice! I'm going to try just relying on my fitbit to log my exercise and see if that starts making the scale drop.
good idea...but I'd still allow for some allowance for estimation error. any of these devices simply provide estimates. to boot, it is pretty common to underestimate intake, even if you're pretty meticulous.0
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