differing opinions on eating goals
rachylouise87
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ok so i have spoke to quite a few people regarding how they use the fitbit and mfp together and it seems lots of people dont eat their activity calories back and some do. personally eating them back so far has worked for me as this week i managed to get past my plateau and figure out my correct TDEE. personally i found changing my food intake day by day to reach the same NET has been easier depending on activity as i dont do the same things every day. fitbit gives me around 60-80 calories extra on work (sedentary days) and around 300 back on workout busy home days. so i am around lightly active. today i was told off for not banking my calories but with only 16lbs to go now and a 250 deficit per day i dont feel the need to eat back the calories... anyone else?
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I vacillate between eating and not eating my exercise calories. I have MFP set to lightly active and I still earn 200-600 more calories per day depending on activity. Do I eat them all? Sometimes. This week I really tried to stick closer to my regular allotted 1400 calories and not eat too much of my exercise calories and I lost two pounds instead of one pound. Is this sustainable long term? No. I definitely have days where I am just hungry! If you earned them, use them, is my motto. If you are happy with your rate of weight loss and your current system works for you, then why listen to anyone else?0
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I usually eat back exercise calories, but not always all of them. When MFP premium came out, I thought it makes zero sense for the option to include or exclude exercise calories. Instead, let me choose a percent. I'll still get extra food for exercising, but I also will get the benefit of additional loss.
As far as losing 2 lbs. vs. losing 1 lb. in a week, I'm wondering if that is normal. Do you really see immediate and exact results? This always amazes me... I realize I'm at the other extreme (I'm not sure why) as I normally have plateaus for several months while continuing a deficit, then see a "whoosh" of several lbs. in a few days (without changing anything to cause either a plateau or a whoosh). Are there really people who have consistent exact results? To me, 1-2 lbs. up and down are normal from hour to hour, day to day, and week to week... I hover around the same weight, more or less, but I'm not losing or gaining fat every day.0 -
I eat back what I want to eat, somedays it is all, some a few, some half way inbetween. Depends on what I was doing how I was feeling and even my food choices, if I eat cereals or bread early in the day, I am hungry all day long and just keep eating. I am now averaging .91 lb. per week, it doesn't always come off in a 7 day time frame but the average is 1 lbs per week. I am now under 20 lbs. from my goal weight, so I should be dropping to .5 lb. per week, I can hardly wait to see if I can keep up the other average
And a big "BooHiss" to whomever got down on you for your choices.0 -
I lost the weight & have maintained for ten months by doing the following:
• Read the Sexypants post: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1
• Log everything you eat & drink accurately & honestly.
• Using the MFP defaults, set your goal to .5 lb. per week for each 25 lbs. you're overweight: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided
• Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
• Do not log any step-based activity—your Fitbit is tracking it for you. Log non-step workouts (like swimming or yoga) in Fitbit—never MFP.
• Ignore your Fitbit goal & follow MFP's, eating back your adjustments.
Everybody's different, so it will take trial & error to find what works for you. Try my settings for several weeks, then reevaluate your progress.0 -
Before I would take anyone's opinion on what they are doing - I'd check if they actually understood what in the world is actually going on.
Vast majority have no clue frankly.
Their only concept of eating calories is based on diet levels they have seen or attempted in the past.
The whole concept of merely eating less than you burn in total is a foreign concept, so they use the tools wrong.
Would you ask for and accept driving tips from someone you have no clue if they even know how to drive well, or understand the rules of the road?
Or after you observed them pulling some boneheaded moves on the street you realize anything driving related coming from their lips is to be taken with a huge grain of salt.0 -
Before I would take anyone's opinion on what they are doing - I'd check if they actually understood what in the world is actually going on.
Vast majority have no clue frankly.
Their only concept of eating calories is based on diet levels they have seen or attempted in the past.
The whole concept of merely eating less than you burn in total is a foreign concept, so they use the tools wrong.
Would you ask for and accept driving tips from someone you have no clue if they even know how to drive well, or understand the rules of the road?
Or after you observed them pulling some boneheaded moves on the street you realize anything driving related coming from their lips is to be taken with a huge grain of salt.
thanks i literally got bombarded on a post for not banking extra activity. but i suppose its not extra its what i should be eating to create a 250 deficit. so far its been working for me.
some days i have left a 300 deficit depending on what time i go to bed so i dont really feel like an extra snack at bed time.
i was told whats the point in working out if im eating the calories back... cardio health maybe ?
i was also told eating them back will hinder progress but if im creating the deficit with my diet then i cannot be hindering?
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editorgrrl wrote: »I lost the weight & have maintained for ten months by doing the following:
• Read the Sexypants post: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1
• Log everything you eat & drink accurately & honestly.
• Using the MFP defaults, set your goal to .5 lb. per week for each 25 lbs. you're overweight: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided
• Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
• Do not log any step-based activity—your Fitbit is tracking it for you. Log non-step workouts (like swimming or yoga) in Fitbit—never MFP.
• Ignore your Fitbit goal & follow MFP's, eating back your adjustments.
Everybody's different, so it will take trial & error to find what works for you. Try my settings for several weeks, then reevaluate your progress.
this is what i truely believed was right i am 16lbs overweight right now so .5lbs is fine for me. negative adjustments are on and everything is weighed.
thanks for this it just made me think i was right all along
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rachylouise87 wrote: »i am 16lbs overweight right now so .5lbs is fine for me. negative adjustments are on and everything is weighed.
thanks for this it just made me think i was right all along
Give it several weeks, then reevaluate your progress.
The best weight-loss advice I ever received was to read the Sexypants post:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p10
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