Under calories and no weight loss.
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If you can't get a scale right away. A good measurement is a cup for meat and veggies. (not for junk food) If you aren't measureng and you are eating back 50% of your exercise calories I can see why you are not losing weight. Until your scale starts dropping I would not eat back any calories. It is better to start off a diet in a strickter manner and learn the adjustments as you go along. Also how often are you weighing. Don't weigh everyday. I only weigh once a month. I think that is really too long to go before weighing, a better weigh schedule would be every 10 days. You will see weight loss and not get frustrated. Weighing too often can wreck you willpower.6
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Also different body weights burn calories at different rates. If you google it you can get a more accurate calorie burn if you enter the exercise and your current weight. It doesn't do much for MFP's exercise log, they need to ad a temperary burn entry for people who want a more specific calorie burn. (You can google weight lose by body weight to find the burn rate) you may have to look at a couple of aps to find one.
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TavistockToad wrote: »1600 cals for 5000 steps seems like a lot?
Just as a data point: I'm male and weigh 200 lbs. I checked back through my Garmin Connect to find a ~5,000 step day. For 5,176 steps, it gave me 309 calories. Yesterday, for 10,020 steps, it gave me 636 calories.7 -
Gretaholden1 wrote: »Also different body weights burn calories at different rates. If you google it you can get a more accurate calorie burn if you enter the exercise and your current weight. It doesn't do much for MFP's exercise log, they need to ad a temperary burn entry for people who want a more specific calorie burn. (You can google weight lose by body weight to find the burn rate) you may have to look at a couple of aps to find one.
The MFP exercise entries already do adjust for body weight.3 -
TavistockToad wrote: »1600 cals for 5000 steps seems like a lot?
Just as a data point: I'm male and weigh 200 lbs. I checked back through my Garmin Connect to find a ~5,000 step day. For 5,176 steps, it gave me 309 calories. Yesterday, for 10,020 steps, it gave me 636 calories.
Female, ~115 lb. For pavement running, at a typical running stride of 0.94m, that would be ~4.9k, so ~3.1 mi -> my Garmin would credit me 220-230 calories (less if they were not all running steps)(it almost always gives me 72-74 calories per mile).0 -
Your Garmin and MFP are messing up your exercise calories severely. Something doesn't always work correctly between MFP and devices. Could be a setting in one or the other. Could be a flaw in the software that exports the data, or MFP's software that imports that exported data.
Happened with me when I synced up my HRM/Samsung Health with MFP.
Turn off MFP's link to your step counter/HRM, and manually enter in the calorie burn for focused exercise (like cycling).1 -
I think you need to actually use your food scale. 100 grams of steak? 50 grams of cole slaw? Do you know how little that really is?5
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