Logging food today to eat tomorrow
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Looking at your diary, if I was in your position I'd change my activity levels. You are clearly not "sedentary" from the amount of extra calories you seem to be gaining from exercise, even if as you say you don't trust your Fitbit readings it's still a hefty adjustment. I was in the same boat but after @WinoGelato suggested a few changes of my setting my readings were much more realistic.
Glad it’s working out for you!2 -
Looking at your diary, if I was in your position I'd change my activity levels. You are clearly not "sedentary" from the amount of extra calories you seem to be gaining from exercise, even if as you say you don't trust your Fitbit readings it's still a hefty adjustment. I was in the same boat but after @WinoGelato suggested a few changes for my setting, my readings were much more realistic.
This is why you believe you are earning 800plus calories from the exercise you do.
Mfp asks for your activity level before exercise well if I don't exercise I barely get 3k steps a day and I never said I didn't trust the adjustment I said I know from my results that it over estimates by around 200-300 calories per day0 -
WinoGelato wrote: »OP if I recall you have a history of obsessing about the minutiae and binge/restrict cycles - because of that I would be cautious about leaving so many calories on the table and just not eating them at any point - the day you did the exercise or later in the week so that the weekly average is at your net goal.
The FitBit sync issues have been frustrating for sure but you’ve been using the device for a while, you should have a good idea of what your average burn is and what the typical adjustment is with MFP for that level of activity - you can just eat a reasonable amount of those calories and not worry about the red numbers - when the two systems start working again they will adjust and your numbers will be back on track.
Even if I'm not hungry
don't see much good in eating for the sake of it if I wasn't using mfp I wouldn't know I had X amount of calories left so I wouldn't eat unless I was hungry which I haven't been 0 -
WinoGelato wrote: »OP if I recall you have a history of obsessing about the minutiae and binge/restrict cycles - because of that I would be cautious about leaving so many calories on the table and just not eating them at any point - the day you did the exercise or later in the week so that the weekly average is at your net goal.
The FitBit sync issues have been frustrating for sure but you’ve been using the device for a while, you should have a good idea of what your average burn is and what the typical adjustment is with MFP for that level of activity - you can just eat a reasonable amount of those calories and not worry about the red numbers - when the two systems start working again they will adjust and your numbers will be back on track.
Even if I'm not hungry don't see much good in eating for the sake of it if I wasn't using mfp I wouldn't know I had X amount of calories left so I wouldn't eat unless I was hungry which I haven't been
a lot of people use MFP because they aren't able to eat to their hunger and maintain/gain/lose weight as they would wish to or in a healthy way.
if you can, then that's great, but then my question would be, what do you use MFP for?3 -
Sometimes I bank calories for the next day - I have a "calorie bank in" food entry and a "calorie bank out" exercise entry. So I would enter say 500 calories as food, and 500 as exercise the next day.
There's no real need to do this, it's just a bookkeeping way of carrying calories from one day to the next. Your body doesn't have a calendar so going under on one day and over on the next doesn't matter. I just prefer the look of it.1 -
TavistockToad wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »OP if I recall you have a history of obsessing about the minutiae and binge/restrict cycles - because of that I would be cautious about leaving so many calories on the table and just not eating them at any point - the day you did the exercise or later in the week so that the weekly average is at your net goal.
The FitBit sync issues have been frustrating for sure but you’ve been using the device for a while, you should have a good idea of what your average burn is and what the typical adjustment is with MFP for that level of activity - you can just eat a reasonable amount of those calories and not worry about the red numbers - when the two systems start working again they will adjust and your numbers will be back on track.
Even if I'm not hungry don't see much good in eating for the sake of it if I wasn't using mfp I wouldn't know I had X amount of calories left so I wouldn't eat unless I was hungry which I haven't been
a lot of people use MFP because they aren't able to eat to their hunger and maintain/gain/lose weight as they would wish to or in a healthy way.
if you can, then that's great, but then my question would be, what do you use MFP for?
To lose weight I gained weight when my partner had a accident and was off work for a year so I was eating when he ate and the same portion size and takeaways and desserts just because we could etc. I can easily go from breakfast right through to evening meal without eating but I exercise around 11am and have always been told to eat within 90min of finishing exercise. I'm usually not hungry but by the time I get hungry I'm starving so I find it better to eat 3 meals so I use mfp to keep track. I lost 3 stone before I started using mfp0 -
TavistockToad wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »OP if I recall you have a history of obsessing about the minutiae and binge/restrict cycles - because of that I would be cautious about leaving so many calories on the table and just not eating them at any point - the day you did the exercise or later in the week so that the weekly average is at your net goal.
The FitBit sync issues have been frustrating for sure but you’ve been using the device for a while, you should have a good idea of what your average burn is and what the typical adjustment is with MFP for that level of activity - you can just eat a reasonable amount of those calories and not worry about the red numbers - when the two systems start working again they will adjust and your numbers will be back on track.
Even if I'm not hungry don't see much good in eating for the sake of it if I wasn't using mfp I wouldn't know I had X amount of calories left so I wouldn't eat unless I was hungry which I haven't been
a lot of people use MFP because they aren't able to eat to their hunger and maintain/gain/lose weight as they would wish to or in a healthy way.
if you can, then that's great, but then my question would be, what do you use MFP for?
To lose weight I gained weight when my partner had a accident and was off work for a year so I was eating when he ate and the same portion size and takeaways and desserts just because we could etc. I can easily go from breakfast right through to evening meal without eating but I exercise around 11am and have always been told to eat within 90min of finishing exercise. I'm usually not hungry but by the time I get hungry I'm starving so I find it better to eat 3 meals so I use mfp to keep track. I lost 3 stone before I started using mfp
so you acknowledge that sometimes you need to eat when you're not hungry, because you know its better for you, but you're arguing that you dont want to eat when not hungry to his an appropriate calorie goal?1 -
TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »OP if I recall you have a history of obsessing about the minutiae and binge/restrict cycles - because of that I would be cautious about leaving so many calories on the table and just not eating them at any point - the day you did the exercise or later in the week so that the weekly average is at your net goal.
The FitBit sync issues have been frustrating for sure but you’ve been using the device for a while, you should have a good idea of what your average burn is and what the typical adjustment is with MFP for that level of activity - you can just eat a reasonable amount of those calories and not worry about the red numbers - when the two systems start working again they will adjust and your numbers will be back on track.
Even if I'm not hungry don't see much good in eating for the sake of it if I wasn't using mfp I wouldn't know I had X amount of calories left so I wouldn't eat unless I was hungry which I haven't been
a lot of people use MFP because they aren't able to eat to their hunger and maintain/gain/lose weight as they would wish to or in a healthy way.
if you can, then that's great, but then my question would be, what do you use MFP for?
To lose weight I gained weight when my partner had a accident and was off work for a year so I was eating when he ate and the same portion size and takeaways and desserts just because we could etc. I can easily go from breakfast right through to evening meal without eating but I exercise around 11am and have always been told to eat within 90min of finishing exercise. I'm usually not hungry but by the time I get hungry I'm starving so I find it better to eat 3 meals so I use mfp to keep track. I lost 3 stone before I started using mfp
so you acknowledge that sometimes you need to eat when you're not hungry, because you know its better for you, but you're arguing that you dont want to eat when not hungry to his an appropriate calorie goal?TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »OP if I recall you have a history of obsessing about the minutiae and binge/restrict cycles - because of that I would be cautious about leaving so many calories on the table and just not eating them at any point - the day you did the exercise or later in the week so that the weekly average is at your net goal.
The FitBit sync issues have been frustrating for sure but you’ve been using the device for a while, you should have a good idea of what your average burn is and what the typical adjustment is with MFP for that level of activity - you can just eat a reasonable amount of those calories and not worry about the red numbers - when the two systems start working again they will adjust and your numbers will be back on track.
Even if I'm not hungry don't see much good in eating for the sake of it if I wasn't using mfp I wouldn't know I had X amount of calories left so I wouldn't eat unless I was hungry which I haven't been
a lot of people use MFP because they aren't able to eat to their hunger and maintain/gain/lose weight as they would wish to or in a healthy way.
if you can, then that's great, but then my question would be, what do you use MFP for?
To lose weight I gained weight when my partner had a accident and was off work for a year so I was eating when he ate and the same portion size and takeaways and desserts just because we could etc. I can easily go from breakfast right through to evening meal without eating but I exercise around 11am and have always been told to eat within 90min of finishing exercise. I'm usually not hungry but by the time I get hungry I'm starving so I find it better to eat 3 meals so I use mfp to keep track. I lost 3 stone before I started using mfp
so you acknowledge that sometimes you need to eat when you're not hungry, because you know its better for you, but you're arguing that you dont want to eat when not hungry to his an appropriate calorie goal?
I eat after exercise I'm talking about after I've had my evening meal at 4-5pm and I'm done eating for the day not hungry and have calories left over. If I wasn't using mfp I wouldn't know I had those calories left so I wouldn't eat after my evening meal so I don't see any point eating if I'm not hungry unless I've just finished exercising then I eat to 1 recover from the exercise and 2 prevent over eating at my next meal0 -
Looking at your diary, if I was in your position I'd change my activity levels. You are clearly not "sedentary" from the amount of extra calories you seem to be gaining from exercise, even if as you say you don't trust your Fitbit readings it's still a hefty adjustment. I was in the same boat but after @WinoGelato suggested a few changes for my setting, my readings were much more realistic.
This is why you believe you are earning 800plus calories from the exercise you do.
Mfp asks for your activity level before exercise well if I don't exercise I barely get 3k steps a day and I never said I didn't trust the adjustment I said I know from my results that it over estimates by around 200-300 calories per day
If you’ve got a FitBit then you know what your average steps are and how active you are and if that’s inconsistent with what MFP says then it’s ok to go with the higher activity level. 3000 is the usual cutoff for Sedentary so if you’re saying you barely get that without exercise, but you do exercise most days, then you should probably change it to lightly active or active. Enabling negative adjustments will cover you on days you don’t exercise or are less active overall. This will make the adjustments smaller and easier to plan to eat to fuel your activity, you may even find FitBit becomes more accurate for you.2 -
OP I’m really not sure why you start threads asking for help and advice when you just ignore all the comments you receive.6
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Looking at your diary, if I was in your position I'd change my activity levels. You are clearly not "sedentary" from the amount of extra calories you seem to be gaining from exercise, even if as you say you don't trust your Fitbit readings it's still a hefty adjustment. I was in the same boat but after @WinoGelato suggested a few changes for my setting, my readings were much more realistic.
This is why you believe you are earning 800plus calories from the exercise you do.
Mfp asks for your activity level before exercise well if I don't exercise I barely get 3k steps a day and I never said I didn't trust the adjustment I said I know from my results that it over estimates by around 200-300 calories per day
I'm sure you do more than 3k a day, I do over this just pottering about the house on a Sunday.0 -
Looking at your diary, if I was in your position I'd change my activity levels. You are clearly not "sedentary" from the amount of extra calories you seem to be gaining from exercise, even if as you say you don't trust your Fitbit readings it's still a hefty adjustment. I was in the same boat but after @WinoGelato suggested a few changes for my setting, my readings were much more realistic.
This is why you believe you are earning 800plus calories from the exercise you do.
Mfp asks for your activity level before exercise well if I don't exercise I barely get 3k steps a day and I never said I didn't trust the adjustment I said I know from my results that it over estimates by around 200-300 calories per day
I'm sure you do more than 3k a day, I do over this just pottering about the house on a Sunday.
No I don't1 -
WinoGelato wrote: »OP if I recall you have a history of obsessing about the minutiae and binge/restrict cycles - because of that I would be cautious about leaving so many calories on the table and just not eating them at any point - the day you did the exercise or later in the week so that the weekly average is at your net goal.
The FitBit sync issues have been frustrating for sure but you’ve been using the device for a while, you should have a good idea of what your average burn is and what the typical adjustment is with MFP for that level of activity - you can just eat a reasonable amount of those calories and not worry about the red numbers - when the two systems start working again they will adjust and your numbers will be back on track.
Even if I'm not hungry don't see much good in eating for the sake of it if I wasn't using mfp I wouldn't know I had X amount of calories left so I wouldn't eat unless I was hungry which I haven't been
You're not "eating for the sake of it," you're eating to fuel your activity and help avoid a restrict/binge cycle (which has been a problem for you in the past). Those are two very, very good reasons to ensure your deficit isn't too big.4 -
WinoGelato wrote: »OP I’m really not sure why you start threads asking for help and advice when you just ignore all the comments you receive.
Concur. But I am a glutton for punishment so I will attempt to explain the comments in another way...
Red isn't a bad color. Be honest in your recordings. You don't need to hit your exact number every day. A couple hundred above or below is no biggy. 800 is a pretty hefty miss, though.1 -
Looking at your diary, if I was in your position I'd change my activity levels. You are clearly not "sedentary" from the amount of extra calories you seem to be gaining from exercise, even if as you say you don't trust your Fitbit readings it's still a hefty adjustment. I was in the same boat but after @WinoGelato suggested a few changes for my setting, my readings were much more realistic.
This is why you believe you are earning 800plus calories from the exercise you do.
Mfp asks for your activity level before exercise well if I don't exercise I barely get 3k steps a day and I never said I didn't trust the adjustment I said I know from my results that it over estimates by around 200-300 calories per day
I'm sure you do more than 3k a day, I do over this just pottering about the house on a Sunday.
No I don't
Well thats me told 😂0
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