Fitbit and Calories-Can this be right???

Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

PAV8888 wrote: »

Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

I will give @PAV8888 suggestion a try and see what happens.. at the moment the math seems a bit out of place so im going to have to wait and see if im the same in 30 days or if i have a drop in weight suddenly.. i had a 5 week stall before at 213 pounds for that long.

Two things.

CHANGING settings during a particular day.


I would look at that day with an asterisk as there are delays in integration information exchange, and potentially bugs when the goals and settings change halfway through the day. The same applies to time changes that are do not take place simultaneously on both Fitbit and MFP. Or sometimes when changing Fitbit devices during a day.

Second (and I am sure that there will be some disagreement from the gallery), our bodies do adjust CO to a degree with both reduced and increased calories.

This adaptive thermogenesis tends to cover a wider range of adjustment going down than going up; but there definitely exist examples in both directions.

A common example going down is a reduction in core temperature (often described as feeling cold) when losing weight. Reduction in core temperature = less calories burned = reduced calories out = a small adaptation that reduces CO and slows down weight loss. Similarly other changes to NEAT such as reduced twitching also take place. Reduced activity after a workout compared to activity that would have otherwise occured is another one.

An extreme example going up is hypermetabolism during recovery from anorexia where people have to sometimes eat in excess of 3k calories for months at a time in order to gain any weight even if they are not exercising.

But usually going up the breadth of adjustment is smaller and as people who have recently lost weight we are mostly primed for regain, and in particular regain of fat.

Where is all this going?

That just because you are not gaining at 2100 does not mean 2100 is your maximum. Maybe it is, or maybe 22, or 2300 is your actual maximum.

Unfortunately the only way to find your true maximum is to probe with carefully measured CICO until weight regain occurs.

I will anegdotically tell you that in the past few weeks i've increased my goal by about 150 Cal, and it has yet to make a difference to my weight that I can quantitify.

But my hair and nails are now growing more rapidly and I HAVE been sauntering around with a bit more energy during my walks.

And I admit that my level of logging probably verges on obsessive, so making such small changes may be quite challenging for people who log more loosely.

sigh.. i am just so mentally tired of all this... stuff.
psychiatrist and others think i should eat more then 2000, i don't think i even want to eat more then 2000, but no one seems to give a crap about how *I* feel about it.. i don't want to increase calories until i gain cause the amount of sodium in my diet already masks my weight for days, dr wants me off caffeine, it's going to make me incredibly tired for weeks, its going to effect my workouts, so im not even going to be able to sweat out all the sodium i normally do to get my water weight off and yet im supposed to some how see weight gain.. no.. it will be too late and i am not really in the mood to spend another month trying to take the weight i just relost off again for the third time. Then all i have to listen to is fitbit does this, and i should probably trust it, but then adaptive thermogeneis this and this could effect calories out.. so don't really trust what fitbit or MFP says on days where you switch activity or a time change or if i workout and then decide to spend the rest of my day off sitting around.. why have a day off if i have to constantly be up and moving because fitbit doesn't like it when i sit.. i spent $230 on a gadget that probably isn't giving me accurate info because this morbidly obese fat girl was fat her whole life and this adaptive thermogeneis thing isn't taken into account on fitbits readings.

all i want is to not be fat.. i don't want to eat more til i gain, the last thing i want is to go back to being the worthless disgusting scum under peoples feet that i spent 29 years of my life being and all this stress over a stupid gadget is driving me crazy and at this point, i am going to bed and shoving the bloody thing in a drawer and thats the end of that.

/endrant

Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

Kind of hard to get the basics down when every single time I think I have an answer to what I'm supposed to be doing or expecting from either calories or gadgets or Fitbit or MyFitnessPal or whatever there's always oh but then there's this or oh but don't do that or oh change the setting to this or something else to do or think about or something Else going on so I'm obviously never going to figure it out because I'm retarded and dumb. So there we go I have admitted to everybody that I am retarded and I will no longer bother people with my advice because for the love of God I can't even figure out my own BS