How often do you adjust your weight on HRM?

Poeticmoe

I bought at Polar FT4 and have been using it for a week. Love it, by the way! Just curious - how often am I supposed to adjust my weight in the settings, as I lose the weight? I'm already 5 lbs down from my starting weight, so I adjusted my weight in the HRM to reflect that.

Do you adjust your weight every time you weigh in and your weight changes, once a week, etc? What have you been doing? Just need to make sure I continue to keep my HRM up to date with my info, so it calculates my calories burned accurately.

Thanks!

dad106

I adjusted mine every time that my weight went down... so pretty much once a week

Poeticmoe

That's what I was thinking. I think I'll update my weight on my HRM once a week, when I weigh in, and there's a change.

Thanks for responding.

japruzze

Never thought about it...guess I better adjust it!

DL121004

I'm not sure it makes that much difference if the weight loss is low.

For example, I've seen something that indicated that over the course of one hour, running a 11.5 minute mile, you burn about 4 Calories per pound. So for example, a person weighing 200 pounds would burn about 800 Calories running 5.2 miles in an hour. Running the same distance in the same time, a 198 pound person would burn 8 less Calories, or 792.

Poeticmoe

So should I wait till there is a bigger gap in my weight loss difference, like every 10 lbs lost?

sllm1

I adjust mine every five pounds. Then I'm not fooling around with it all the time and I feel accomplished that I've lost five pounds so I get to update my HRM.

SteveHunt113

I adjust mine every five pounds. Then I'm not fooling around with it all the time and I feel accomplished that I've lost five pounds so I get to update my HRM.

That's a great idea! It's like a motivational treat!

Chrissie_R

oops i should adjust mine too !!

Edjeep

I got my HRM a several weeks backs. I started adjusting every 5 pounds in advance. By doing it advance, I figure I am actually burning a few more then reported when I just changed it and I don't see how that is a bad thing. That's like every 2 weeks at my current weight loss rate. I just don't want to fiddle with the hrm, put it on and get going! But that's just me.

bshedwick

Everytime my weight goes down, I change mine. I also always have it set for 1 pound lower than my actual weight (built in wiggle room)

MoooveOverFluffy

Gee whiz.... i don't recall ever setting my weight on mine. I have a Garmin FR60. will check into this stat!!!

Poeticmoe

Good advice here. When my weight changes, so will my HRM settings.

Erica002

I've had my HRM for 6 months and I just now adjusted it.

booyainyoface

i keep mine set 10 lbs below my real weight.... that way i feel its more "accurate" and i don't overdo it and feel ok with eating back my calories