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enchanted20
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Hi,
I need help, I am staying under 1300 calories a day, I drink more then 8 glasses of water in a day and keep the carb eating to a minimum and if I do eat it I try to for breakfast and not supper... I track everyday, and stay below the mark, on weekends it hard but i still manage to stay under.. I keep going up and down on the scale even thought im following the calories counter.
What is an easier way to drop the wight... It seems like going to another dierty place with pills helps but i dont want to do that.
I need help, I am staying under 1300 calories a day, I drink more then 8 glasses of water in a day and keep the carb eating to a minimum and if I do eat it I try to for breakfast and not supper... I track everyday, and stay below the mark, on weekends it hard but i still manage to stay under.. I keep going up and down on the scale even thought im following the calories counter.
What is an easier way to drop the wight... It seems like going to another dierty place with pills helps but i dont want to do that.
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Pills aren't necessary.
Do you weigh everything on a food scale? How do you measure calorie burns?0 -
Going up and down on the scale is perfectly normal. Weight loss isn't linear.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10084670/it-is-unlikely-that-you-will-lose-weight-consistently-i-e-weight-loss-is-not-linear/p1
If you're logging honestly and accurately, your weight loss will show a downward trend over time.
Good luck!0 -
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Reevaluate your goals, they may be too aggressive.0
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lishie_rebooted wrote: »Reevaluate your goals, they may be too aggressive.
This. Also, accept that weight loss isn't linear, and flucations are going to happen.
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Lift, walk on an incline treadmill for an hour. Their is no easy way to get slim and supplements like pills only give you bad side affects.0
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jaketaylor1391 wrote: »Lift, walk on an incline treadmill for an hour. Their is no easy way to get slim and supplements like pills only give you bad side affects.
There's no need to walk in a treadmill for an hour.
that's just *kitten* torture0 -
lishie_rebooted wrote: »
There's no need to walk in a treadmill for an hour.
that's just *kitten* torture
Yea but it burns around 600 calories which is a alot of calories. Plus if you throw on a movie or something time flies by.0 -
lishie_rebooted wrote: »
There's no need to walk in a treadmill for an hour.
that's just *kitten* torture
I walk on the treadmill for an hour lots of times. If it has a television on it, doesn't seem like an hour at all.0 -
jaketaylor1391 wrote: »
Yea but it burns around 600 calories which is a alot of calories. Plus if you throw on a movie or something time flies by.
No it doesnt. You can't throw out a blank number like that. It might for you but if you're basing that off the display or the MFP database, those are both overestimated.
Calories burned for a particular activity will vary so much. Especially between genders.
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lishie_rebooted wrote: »
No it doesnt. You can't throw out a blank number like that. It might for you but if you're basing that off the display or the MFP database, those are both overestimated.
Calories burned for a particular activity will vary so much. Especially between genders.
Walking at an incline of 9 or 10 going around 3.5 mph on a treadmill burns around 600 calories for men and women i do this about five times in the week. Not only does the treadmill tell you how many calories you burn but if you have an app that calculates calories per step that also tells you.0 -
jaketaylor1391 wrote: »
Walking at an incline of 9 or 10 going around 3.5 mph on a treadmill burns around 600 calories for men and women i do this about five times in the week. Not only does the treadmill tell you how many calories you burn but if you have an app that calculates calories per step that also tells you.
Those are estimates. Not fact.
Edit- Convienently, this popped up on my home screen so I don't need to type it out:http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/why-you-shouldnt-trust-calories-burned-on-exercise-machines/0 -
jaketaylor1391 wrote: »
Yea but it burns around 600 calories which is a alot of calories. Plus if you throw on a movie or something time flies by.
Walking for an hour burns about 200 cals for me...0 -
Again, you can't make a blank statement like that.jaketaylor1391 wrote: »
Walking at an incline of 9 or 10 going around 3.5 mph on a treadmill burns around 600 calories for men and women i do this about five times in the week. Not only does the treadmill tell you how many calories you burn but if you have an app that calculates calories per step that also tells you.
a woman who is 5ft isn't gonna burn that and a severely obese man would probably burn way more.
You clearly can't read where I stated that men and women don't burn the same calories for the same exercise and machines and apps overestimate.0 -
lishie_rebooted wrote: »Again, you can't make a blank statement like that.
a woman who is 5ft isn't gonna burn that and a severely obese man would probably burn way more.
You clearly can't read where I stated that men and women don't burn the same calories for the same exercise and machines and apps overestimate.
Which is why every treadmill asks for your weight, and if you use a treadmill at a gym it asks for your gender and some of them even take your heart rate0 -
TavistockToad wrote: »
Walking for an hour burns about 200 cals for me...
On a ten incline?0 -
jaketaylor1391 wrote: »
On a ten incline?
On the pavement... There's hills and *kitten* sometimes....0 -
jaketaylor1391 wrote: »
Which is why every treadmill asks for your weight, and if you use a treadmill at a gym it asks for your gender and some of them even take your heart rate
Never seen gender. And once again, those are overestimates and not accurate.
If you want a better estimate of calories burned then a HRM is your best bet but it's only good for steady state cardio.0 -
jaketaylor1391 wrote: »
Which is why every treadmill asks for your weight, and if you use a treadmill at a gym it asks for your gender and some of them even take your heart rate
http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/why-you-shouldnt-trust-calories-burned-on-exercise-machines/
Additionally, heart rate monitors on machines and straps/watches are best estimates as well. They are only good for steady cardio, and even then, their algorithms are not 100% accurate. I have a heart arrhythmia, and one would not be able to distinguish an SVT attack (where my heart can beat 200+ BPM) over me doing a "fat burning" steady heart rate. Just because my heart is beating at 200 BPM does not mean I am burning more calories.0 -
missiontofitness wrote: »
http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/why-you-shouldnt-trust-calories-burned-on-exercise-machines/
Additionally, heart rate monitors on machines and straps/watches are best estimates as well. They are only good for steady cardio, and even then, their algorithms are not 100% accurate. I have a heart arrhythmia, and one would not be able to distinguish an SVT attack (where my heart can beat 200+ BPM) over me doing a "fat burning" steady heart rate. Just because my heart is beating at 200 BPM does not mean I am burning more calories.
Well you can question if your burnin calories or you can go to the gym and do it, wheres ct fletcher when you need him.0 -
jaketaylor1391 wrote: »
Well you can question if your burnin calories or you can go to the gym and do it, wheres ct fletcher when you need him.
Not sure I understand what this post is supposed to mean.0 -
If you're going by the calorie burn those machines are giving you, the general concensus is to halve the numbers...0
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jaketaylor1391 wrote: »
Which is why every treadmill asks for your weight, and if you use a treadmill at a gym it asks for your gender and some of them even take your heart rate
Oh really? Mine doesn't. It's a friction treadmill.0 -
Oh really? Mine doesn't. It's a friction treadmill.
He's very fond of generalizations so I'd ignore him since the information entered into any cardio machine varies between manufacturers and productions years and price points.0
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