Anyone also using Jawbone Up

jackolantern74

I recently lost 50 pounds using the HMR diet and tracking food/ exercise on My Fitness Pal. I need to get back on track to lose another 20 or so pounds. I just got a Jawbone Up to help motivate myself and I need some MFP friends and Up friends to help keep me in line. I have two young children so it can be hard to get my exercise. I also am always looking for easy kid friendly healthy recipes.

editorgrrl

There are lots of "add me" threads in the Jawbone UP Bracelet group: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/13370-jawbone-up-bracelet

Edited to add that you can connect your Jawbone & MFP accounts at http://www.myfitnesspal.com/apps/show/97

Here's how the adjustments work:

When you set up your MFP account, you specified an activity level: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided MFP used your answer, plus your age, sex & height, to estimate how many calories you burn every day (your TDEE). Then you set your weight-loss goal, and MFP subtracted the appropriate deficit to calculate your daily calorie goal.

Once you link an activity tracker to your MFP account (via the "Apps" tab at the top of every page), you start getting calorie adjustments. If your tracker says you burned more calories than MFP estimated, you get a positive adjustment (meaning more calories to eat). If you enable negative calorie adjustments and you burn less than the MFP estimate, you will lose calories. (But negative calorie adjustments will never drop your daily calories below 1,200.)

Log food & drink in MFP. No need to log step based activity. Log non-step based exercise (like swimming or spinning) either in the UP app or in MFP--never both. If you choose to log in MFP, you'll be asked for start & end times. Then MFP will override your step data during that time.

It will take trial & error to find what settings work best for you.