TEAM: The Belly Flats (October)
AB0215
Posts: 7,141 Member
Welcome to the Challenge new and returning teammates!! This is the conversation/weigh in thread for your Team 
Keep on losing because our first weigh ins begin THIS Sunday! Should you need anything, please post here and your team Captains will answer as soon as possible.
Keep on losing because our first weigh ins begin THIS Sunday! Should you need anything, please post here and your team Captains will answer as soon as possible.1
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Username: TypingToaster
Weigh-in Day: Sunday, October 1st
Previous weight: 319.9
Current weight: 320.71 -
Daily Post: Sunday, October 2
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes (🧘♂️12 min; 🤽♂️60 min; 🚶♂️3.21 mi/53 min; 👣12,000 steps)
Goals/Day/Comments: I started running 5K once a month back in March. I had just gotten to the point where I could walk 5K, then I saw a "weekend 5K run" challenge on my Garmin watch and decided to give it a try. My pace then was ~18:00/mi (which involved a lot of walking). Ten weeks ago, I started a 5K training program on my Garmin watch. It involved doing cadence drills and slowly increasing the distance week to week. Today that program culminated in my first 5K where I was walking only about 10% of the time. On this run, I set a few new personal records: best 1 km pace = 14:23/mi, best 1 mile pace = 14:56/mi, best 5K pace = 16:16/mi. At half my current age, I was running twice that speed, but I'll take it. 😊
Two years ago, just walking a quarter mile was a challenge.
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Oct. 2nd
WA_Teacher
Previous Weight: 233.6
Current Weight: 229
I’ve been ill with a stomach virus so there isn’t really as big of a loss as it seems. I’m sure I’ll level out over the next few days.2 -
Dheliason
October week 1
PW: 158.5
CW: 161.1
Darn it!!2 -
Looks like I am missing some weigh-ins for the 5th week of September. Sep 25 - Oct 1st:
@carenwilson1983
@UnicornMermaidMom
@Colleen790
If I missed your original post, my appologies. Please post again for the record.
Thank you,
Teresa
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@frankwbrown. That’s awesome to hear. Keep it going.2
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Daily post for October 2nd
Track calories: yes and under my calorie count
Activity: treadmill run 3.1 miles 37 minutes 444 active calories burned
Total steps for the day: 13,789
Have a great afternoon and evening everyone!!!!1 -
Daily Post: Monday, October 3
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes (🚶♂️hike 9.19 mi/~ 6 hrs/2,200 ft ascent/descent; 👣26,377 steps)
Goals/Day/Comments: Today, I spent the day at Muir Woods in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. I hiked for almost 6 hours (that's including a number of breaks) and went 9.19 miles, ascending/descending 2,200 feet. I am so sore right now, and I know I'll still be sore tomorrow. But it was worth it; it was a beautiful hike.
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Here's a few photos of Muir Woods...
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Good afternoon everyone!!!!!!
Daily post for Monday October 3rd
Tracked calories: yes I was under my calories
Activity: outdoor run 43 minutes 4 miles 604 active calories burned
Outdoor walk 45 minutes 2.6 miles 300 active calories burned
Total steps for the day: 19,9382 -
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Resting Calories vs Active CaloriesMany of us have a device that calculates our calories burned during exercise and forwards that data to MFP. MFP gives you the option to add these calories to your daily allowance.
Based on my experience with what my food/exercise logging tells me and what I observe when I weigh, I have long suspected that I don't burn as many calories during exercise as my Garmin watch calculates. Because of this, I've not been comfortable adding all active calories to my daily allowance, but I've wanted to be able to add at least some.
I just learned that for calories burned, Garmin calculates both a resting calories and active calories! I had never noticed that before! And what Garmin sends to MFP is the total calories burned. This explains a lot!
I went back and reviewed a bunch of activities and saw resting calories varying from as low as 10% to as high as 40% of total calories burned. Then I began thinking how the activity time affects that ratio. I noticed that on average the resting calories is roughly around 100 calories/minute. So, I figured I could double the minutes of exercise and get an approximate number for resting calories. To check that assumption, I did a search and found this:
According to the American Council on Exercise, the average person burns 0.02 calories per minute at rest, per kg of body weight. Since I weigh around 100 kg, that comes out to 2 calories/minute!
Hopefully, I will now be able to see a better correlation between my day-to-day calorie deficit (or excess!) and my weight.
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Good morning everyone
Daily post for October 4th
Tracked calories: yes I was under for the day
Activity: elliptical 50 minutes 540 active calories burned
Total steps for the day:14,2432 -
I have been away on holidays so didn’t post my weight for last Saturdaylooneycatblue wrote: »Looks like I am missing some weigh-ins for the 5th week of September. Sep 25 - Oct 1st:
@carenwilson1983
@UnicornMermaidMom
@Colleen790
If I missed your original post, my appologies. Please post again for the record.
Thank you,
Teresa
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cormierannie
weigh in day Wednesday
pw: 143 pounds
cw: 141 pounds0 -
Daily Post: Tuesday, October 4
Track: Yes
Calories: No
Exercise: Yes (🧘♂️14 min; 🤽♂️60 min; 👣10,134 steps)
Goals/Day/Comments: No walk and no strength training; still recovering from Monday's hike.1 -
Daily Post: Wednesday, October 5
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes (☯48 min; 🤽♂️58 min; 🚶♂️3.14 mi/71 min; 👣11,800 steps)1 -
Daily post for October 5th
Tracked calories: yes and I was over
Activity: indoor run 53 minutes 4.2 miles 609 active calories burned
Total steps for the day: 15,3441 -
Daily Post: Thursday, October 6
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes (🧘♂️53 min; 🤽♂️60 min; 🚶♂️3.15 mi/70 min; 👣15,300 steps)
Goals/Day/Comments: Haven't done any strength training all week. Just can't get excited about it. Gonna try to get in a good workout tomorrow.2 -
I’m going to opt out for October. I have so much going on this month. We have family visiting from Europe plus other things going on. I will be back in November. All the best to you all.0
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Official weight in day Friday week 1
Pauletzl
Previous weight 228.0
Current weight 228.4
Gained 0.4 pounds1 -
frankwbrown
Weigh in week: October week 1
Weigh in day: Friday, October 7
PW: 225.8
CW: 227.3 ( gained 1.5 lbs; 0.66%)
(off to a bad start!)1 -
Daily Post: Friday, October 7
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes (🧘♂️21 min; 💪46 min; 🤽♂️60 min; 🚶♂️0.41 mi/10 min; 👣10,721 steps)1 -
Daily post for October 7
Tracked calories : yes under
Activity: outdoor run 45 minutes 4.0 miles 579 active calories
Total steps for the day: 16,8441 -
Colleen790 wrote: »I’m going to opt out for October. I have so much going on this month. We have family visiting from Europe plus other things going on. I will be back in November. All the best to you all.
Enjoy your time spent with family! See you on November!0 -
"I will track" "I will track" "I will track"
Daily Post: Sat, Oct 8 (so far, will update in the morning)
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes, so far 7819 steps (really nice, much needed walk this morning)
Comments: I really need to get back to tracking and coming here for daily accountability!
Cheers to our team for staying motivated and coming here to post:
@TypingToaster
@frankwbrown
@WA_Teacher
@dheliason
@pauletzl
@Colleen790
@cormierannie
@Starfruit98
@carenwilson1983
@UnicornMermaidMom
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Just heard the our fabulous leader @AB0215 has been busy with family matters. Her husband had surgery. She will take care of the September month ending, and will create the October worksheet for us when she gets a chance.1
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Daily Post: Saturday, October 8
Track: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes (🧘♂️45 min; 🤽♂️60 min; 🚶♂️1.33 mi/30 min; 👣10,200 steps)1 -
Daily post for October 8
Tracked calories: yes over
Activity: mowed grass 1 hour 382 active calories burned
Total steps for the day: 15,2401 -
Oct. 9th
WA_Teacher
Previous Weight: 229
Current Weight: 230.60
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