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    • Posts: 415 Member
      Yeah I just leave my open so if I ever ask questions, people can see what I'm eating and I also find it interesting to look at other people's
    • Posts: 1,092 Member
      My diary is public. I'm an insulin-dependent diabetic who eats 4 meals/day with each meal separated by 3 hours (when possible) and in addition to logging (since May 22nd) food items, I log my meal times, what I drink, what diabetes meds (including meal-time insulin dosages with each meal) I take & when I take them and my blood sugar readings with each meal along with morning fasting and bedtime blood sugar measurements & various notes for each day relating to my appetite at each meal. This is done daily to help me keep my type2 diabetes in check and to also help me keep my binge eating disorder under control (my last binge was on May 7th). I figure there might be other type2 diabetics or people with binge eating issues (or both, like me) that may benefit from what has been working well for me (as of today, I've lost 75 lbs since 1/1/2017).
    • Posts: 466 Member
      I don't really know if mine is open also idgaf either way.
    • Posts: 2,343 Member
      nokanjaijo wrote: »
      I don't really know if mine is open also idgaf either way.

      it's open
    • Posts: 10,330 Member
      mrsnattybulking wrote: »
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      same. sadly i think the more steps you take the more it overestimates too... so it looks really bad lol

      Try playing with the stride length, age, and height on the fitbit app. I was able to fine-tune what the tracker gives me based on my loss to a very good accuracy and now I can safely eat 100% of my calories and get results that reasonably match my theoretical weight loss goal.
    • Posts: 7,722 Member
      newheavensearth wrote: »
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      I have my settings on sedentary because my job is sedentary. But I do my hour of regular exercise in the morning, 45 to 60 min of stress relief cardio after work. And I walk my errands and volunteer work so 20,000 step days on top of all that does come up to a high burn.

      Yup. I have no trouble believing your burn.

      I have mine on sedentary because I go to bed early and having it on a higher activity setting would result in a negative night time adjustment for me. I don't like that.

      I got a 900 calorie adjustment yesterday for 24000 steps. I usually get over 20K steps, and my adjustment varies depending on the intensity of them.
    • Posts: 7,722 Member
      amusedmonkey wrote: »
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      Try playing with the stride length, age, and height on the fitbit app. I was able to fine-tune what the tracker gives me based on my loss to a very good accuracy and now I can safely eat 100% of my calories and get results that reasonably match my theoretical weight loss goal.

      This is exactly what I did.
    • Posts: 260 Member
      Mine is open to the people I have friended here. If someone has friended me and they do not open their diary to friends I eventually unfriend them. My reasoning behind these two choices is that I believe if you have chosen to set up a support network of friends your information should be open to them. That may be getting an idea for something new to eat or catching heck for consistently going over calories (support is not always touchy feely). If you want feedback you have to provide the information. If you don't want it it doesn't matter if it is closed.
    • Posts: 628 Member
      Mine is open to friends only. I don't think other people seeing my intake contributes nor detracts from my success. The only person my logging matters for is me. I don't whine if I gain a pound after an evening out or after Thursday snack night. I'm accountable to me, and only me.

      I actually have removed friends for being overly critical of my intake. I just don't have any interest in justifying eating one homemade pumpkin oatmeal cookie to a random person on the internet. That doesn't work for my process.
    • Posts: 16,049 Member
      What i don't get is why people post their completed diary on the newsfeed but have it set to private. How am i supposed to "like" or comment on a diary that I cant see....
    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      edited July 2017
      Lots of people seem to think they have to close to have it be counted, many probably see closing it as a sign to themselves they will not eat anymore that day. The default is to post it -- if you can make it stop I'm not sure how (my first priority would be to make it stop telling me who everyone friended).

      I don't currently use the diary myself and when I do I usually don't close it, just my thoughts on why that happens.

      Personally, I sometimes like that someone completed their diary, since I assume that means they are logging, which I think is a positive. I never read anyone's diary from my feed unless someone else comments about something sounding delicious and then I might peek.
    • Posts: 18,996 Member
      Christine_72 wrote: »
      What i don't get is why people post their completed diary on the newsfeed but have it set to private. How am i supposed to "like" or comment on a diary that I cant see....

      Because you have to go into settings to turn off the fact that it posts when you close it, and a lot of people don't know that's even a possibility? I thought you'd have been around long enough to know that.
    • Posts: 164 Member
      Mine was open until I got unsolicited advice, even though I was doing fine (omg I wasn't measuring in GRAMS!)

      Also I drink a lot of beer and you guys probably don't need to know that.
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