Maintainers Weekly Check In - March 2019
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Name: Jim
Age:71
Height:5’8”
Total Weight lost:197.8 (SW 376.2)
Time it took to lose: 5 years,
From 1/17/13 to 3/29/18.
How long in maintenance: Since 3/29/18.
*Maintenance range:179-184
Average weight recorded in 2018 180.
Average weight recorded 2019:
January 178.6
February 177.2
Weigh In
7 March 178.8
Success/struggles of the week
Success: Still below GW after a week of some Fat Tuesday treats. No Changes after two weeks.
Struggle: Need to get some exercise because aqua aerobics are not allowed because I have swimmers ear. No pool for two weeks, my usual exercise is 4-5 X a week. Will try stationer bike and walking IF weather warms up!
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Name: Jenn
Age: 34
Height: 5"2'
Total weight lost: 32lb
Time it took to lose: approx 18 months
How long in maintenance: I reached my goal weight about a year ago, but kind of bounced around for a while.. it's taken til now since the beginning of the year to be getting consistent weigh-in's in the range I want to be in. So I'd say only within the last couple weeks I've officially been in maintenance
Maintenance weight range: 124lb-127lb
Average weight recorded from 2018: ----
Week of...
Feb 25: 124.4
March 3: 123.0
March 10:
March 17:
March 24:
March 31
Lower weigh-in than I was expecting.. still trying to figure out this whole maintenance thing, may have to up my cals a few more. Happy with that number though, weekends are always harder for me, so going into it in the lower-end of my maintenance range is a good thing.8 -
Age: 43
Height: 5'2"
Total weight lost: 45
Time it took to lose: 30 lbs in about 9 months, the rest over a year
How long in maintenance: about 7 years
Maintenance weight range: 103-108
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 102.7
Average weight recorded from January: 99.8 (having the flu brought my weight down a little)
Average weight recorded from February: 100.4
Week of...
March 1: 100.6
March 8: 100.5
March 15:
March 22:
March 29:
March 31
Success/Struggles: I took a CXWorx class on Wednesday and took the Bodypump class again today. I'm getting some very satisfying muscle soreness from them and feeling like taking the classes will be a good change for me so far as exercise goes.7 -
Name: Existing Fish
Age: 30 (31 this month!)
Height: 5'0" (153cm)
Total weight lost:36.5lbs (16.6kg)
Time it took to lose: 6 months
How long in maintenance: 6 months
Maintenance weight range: 117-123lbs
Average weight recorded from 2019: 121.7
Average weight recorded from January: 123.1
Average weight recorded from February: 120.3
Week of...
March 1: 119.3lbs (t:119.5)
March 8: 117.1 (t.119.1)
March 15:
March 22:
March 29:
March 31:
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Right now, my middle child (3) vomited all yesterday afternoon. My youngest
(18m) has had a fever since the same time. My oldest has started acting off today too. It's going to be a long weekend. And I can't go to the gym, because the kids are sick and can't go to childcare and my husband is working all day. Maybe I can get up super early and go tomorrow before my husband goes to work. That said, I only got 2 hours sleep last night, so maybe not.9 -
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/usercard/47402296 I feel your pain! Have my three nephew staying with us this week and between them and my own two boys, 4 have been vomiting since yesterday! I’m hoping the baby doesn’t get it and little to no sleep last night didn’t kill my seemingly endless hunger this week. We all missed out on our ski trip today so fingers crossed for a quick recovery on your end and mine so the rest of March break goes off without a hitch! stay healthy momma!6
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Name:Lora
Age: 38
Height: 5’4”
Total weight lost:MFP +\- 40lbs, 45lbs all together
Time it took to lose: 8 months
How long in maintenance: 6 months
Maintenance weight range: 126-129lbs
Average weight recorded from 2017 (12 months): 173lbs
Average weight recorded from August-December 2018 - 128lbs
January average - 126 lbs
February average 127lbs
March 1 - 128.6 lbs
March 7 - 128.8 lbs
Weight has been creeping back up and I know it’s my late night snacking, lack of sleep and binging despite the healthy meals(I eat those too and then I eat crap after). Hoping illness leaves the house soon and the next week off of school we get to go skiing and get outdoors to get some exercise, fresh air and get back on track.8 -
Name: Sofchak
Age: 36
Height: 5’3”
Total weight lost: ~25 lbs
Time it took to lose: 9 months
How long in maintenance: 2+ years
Maintenance weight range: 122-127
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 124
Average weight recorded from January: 128.5
Average weight recorded from February: 127
Week of...
March 2nd: 126.5
March 9th: 126.0
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Good week for me. Struggling with an IT band issue, but didn’t let it stop me. Instead of running 10 miles as planned on Sunday for half marathon training, I pulled out the old “brick training” from my triathlon days - 5 miles biking, 3 miles running x 3 for a total of 15 miles biking and 9 miles of running. Then walked the dogs a mile before the snow started. Definitely was easier on my hip than running 10 miles straight; bonus that it built my endurance up more. Picked up some new stretches that seem to be helping. Hopefully, I can tackle that 12 miler next Sunday with no issues. Glass half full mentality.
Otherwise, just taking life one day at a time.
Have a great week, everyone!8 -
Name: missperfectpitch
Height: 5'4"
Total weight lost: About 43 pounds
Time it took to lose: 1 year and 2 months
How long in maintenance: I hit my goal weight in the beginning of January 2018, but officially started maintenance in mid-March 2018 after figuring out my calories for a couple of months.
Maintenance weight range: 108-111.5
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 109.8
Average weight recorded from January: 111
Average weight recorded from February: 110.8
Week of...
March 2: 110.2 (trend 110.3)
March 9: 110.8 (trend 110.6)
March 16:
March 23:
March 30:
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: My weight was up this week, but that was expected as I went out for a high-sodium meal mid-week and am still retaining quite a bit of water weight now. I'm about a little over a week away from being one year in maintenance (officially) now, and I'm planning to use a different approach to maintenance than I've been using previously. I've always looked at calories from a weekly perspective using calorie cycling (I use TDEE)- having one or two low days during the week and two high days on the weekend to indulge in desserts or to eat out for one or two meals. This has worked well during both weight loss and maintenance for a typical week for me, and works pretty well if I'm on a long weekend vacation and eating out, as I typically will be significantly more active and will eat back extra exercise calories while on vacation. For a vacation of a week or longer, where I'm eating out 3+ times/day for several days, it's still been doable, though a bit more of a struggle, as I either have to be super active to get extra calories, or have a few very low calorie days (1200-1300) to balance out the rest.
My new approach is going to be viewing calories by a couple of weeks at a time, or maybe even on a monthly basis, particularly if I've got a vacation coming up for which I want to eat anything and everything. Since there are some weeks where I don't eat out at all, I can eat at a slight deficit those weeks (without really even noticing) and then bank those calories for an upcoming vacation week to start out with a surplus of base calories to work with. That way, I can eat/drink everything while on vacation without needing to budget in super low calorie days, and then I can use any extra calories from hiking/etc. for extra treats while on vacation. Or for a really fancy high-calorie meal out on a weekend. I'll see how this approach works, but it just made sense to me to eat at a tiny deficit (tiny enough that it's not really noticeable) for a couple of weeks, and then can relax a bit more while on vacation.
I've started to do this already, as I'll be on a 4-day vacation over next weekend. I've eaten at a very tiny deficit over the past three weeks and banked about 1000 calories for the vacation (~330ish calorie deficit each week), so about ~250 extra calories for each of the vacation days. In reality, I'm spreading those calories out a bit over next week and the following week, so it'll be a bit less than that, but my lowest calorie day for the upcoming week will be 1450 v. 1200-1300 that it'd normally be, and my vacation days' base calories will be 2400-2600. I'm anticipating that I'll eat/drink more than that, but I'll easily get an extra couple hundred calories on those days by walking without having to worry about doing a ton of walking like I normally would.7 -
Name: Ben
Age: 50
Height: 6'
Total weight lost: ~55 lbs
Time it took to lose: 9 months
How long in maintenance: Since ~ December 2018
Maintenance weight range: 166-171
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months): 183
Average weight recorded for December:165.8
Average weight recorded for January: 167.3
Average weight recorded for February: 167.2
Week of...
March 2nd: 166.2
March 9th: 164
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: You know you might not be hitting your calorie targets when you have a Night of Hedonistic Abandon and still end up below maintenance range the next day. There are, of course, worse problems to have. Still, Iosing weight is likely making recomp more difficult, so I'm going to try to be more vigilant.
On a no doubt related note, things have stalled a bit on the exercise front. Little progress in lifting, but I'm hanging in there and didn't miss any exercise days. Some NSV have buoyed my spirits, though, so all in all life is good!
Have a great week, everyone!7 -
missperfectpitch wrote: »Name: missperfectpitch
My new approach is going to be viewing calories by a couple of weeks at a time, or maybe even on a monthly basis, particularly if I've got a vacation coming up for which I want to eat anything and everything. Since there are some weeks where I don't eat out at all, I can eat at a slight deficit those weeks (without really even noticing) and then bank those calories for an upcoming vacation week to start out with a surplus of base calories to work with.
I am pretty new to calorie cycling. A couple of questions for you. When you cycle your calories, do you run a deficit from Net calories? Will you use a spreadsheet for a bi-weekly/monthly calorie "bank" or MFP offers this option and I'm not seeing it.
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Tolstolobik wrote: »missperfectpitch wrote: »Name: missperfectpitch
My new approach is going to be viewing calories by a couple of weeks at a time, or maybe even on a monthly basis, particularly if I've got a vacation coming up for which I want to eat anything and everything. Since there are some weeks where I don't eat out at all, I can eat at a slight deficit those weeks (without really even noticing) and then bank those calories for an upcoming vacation week to start out with a surplus of base calories to work with.
I am pretty new to calorie cycling. A couple of questions for you. When you cycle your calories, do you run a deficit from Net calories? Will you use a spreadsheet for a bi-weekly/monthly calorie "bank" or MFP offers this option and I'm not seeing it.
So I use TDEE, which already factors in exercise/activity calories, instead of MFP's base calories+exercise calories method, as my exercise and daily activity are pretty consistent every week. My TDEE works out to about 1875 (total of 13,125 per week), and I'll typically do 1500 calories one day, 2150 Friday and Saturday, and then somewhere in between for the remaining days. If I'm going to eat out at a restaurant with several courses/desserts etc., I might budget 2600 for that day, have one 2000 day, two low days, and the others low-medium days. I'll also make adjustments afterwards, so if I ended up eating only about ~2300 instead of 2600, I'll shift the remainder to another day or spread it out among a couple of days. I will usually only sync my Fitbit with MFP and add the calorie adjustment if I'm on vacation as I tend to walk 15k-20k+ steps per day, which is above my normal activity. For example, I've budgeted 2550 calories each for next Friday and Saturday when I'm on vacation, but I expect to walk a lot, so I'll eat back extra calories based on MFP's calorie adjustment (so I'll probably end up at around 2650-2750 calories those days).
If you use MFP's base calories + exercise calories method, you could do the deficit from net calories (which would end up being your TDEE), or you could do something like bank most or all of the exercise calories.
I use an outside app (Google Keep Notes) to keep track of things as I don't think that MFP (at least, the free version) has the functionality to keep track of calorie cycling. I just have a simple list in Google Keep of Sunday-Saturday that I update for each upcoming week. I allot a daily calorie goal for each day based on what/where I expect to eat and ensure that it totals 13,125. Then I just update my calorie goal in MFP every day. I'm still doing this with banking calories across weeks, but slightly modified. So, I had a line that said "Week of March 10 +720" and one "Week of March 17 +254", which were the extra calories I banked from the previous weeks. For the week of March 10, I still allotted calories like I usually do, except that instead of the usual 13,125 total, I used 13,845 (usual +720) as the total. It is a bit of effort to do this, but it really only takes a few minutes to do so too.2 -
missperfectpitch wrote: »Tolstolobik wrote: »missperfectpitch wrote: »Name: missperfectpitch
My new approach is going to be viewing calories by a couple of weeks at a time, or maybe even on a monthly basis, particularly if I've got a vacation coming up for which I want to eat anything and everything. Since there are some weeks where I don't eat out at all, I can eat at a slight deficit those weeks (without really even noticing) and then bank those calories for an upcoming vacation week to start out with a surplus of base calories to work with.
I am pretty new to calorie cycling. A couple of questions for you. When you cycle your calories, do you run a deficit from Net calories? Will you use a spreadsheet for a bi-weekly/monthly calorie "bank" or MFP offers this option and I'm not seeing it.
So I use TDEE, which already factors in exercise/activity calories, instead of MFP's base calories+exercise calories method, as my exercise and daily activity are pretty consistent every week. My TDEE works out to about 1875 (total of 13,125 per week), and I'll typically do 1500 calories one day, 2150 Friday and Saturday, and then somewhere in between for the remaining days. If I'm going to eat out at a restaurant with several courses/desserts etc., I might budget 2600 for that day, have one 2000 day, two low days, and the others low-medium days. I'll also make adjustments afterwards, so if I ended up eating only about ~2300 instead of 2600, I'll shift the remainder to another day or spread it out among a couple of days. I will usually only sync my Fitbit with MFP and add the calorie adjustment if I'm on vacation as I tend to walk 15k-20k+ steps per day, which is above my normal activity. For example, I've budgeted 2550 calories each for next Friday and Saturday when I'm on vacation, but I expect to walk a lot, so I'll eat back extra calories based on MFP's calorie adjustment (so I'll probably end up at around 2650-2750 calories those days).
If you use MFP's base calories + exercise calories method, you could do the deficit from net calories (which would end up being your TDEE), or you could do something like bank most or all of the exercise calories.
I use an outside app (Google Keep Notes) to keep track of things as I don't think that MFP (at least, the free version) has the functionality to keep track of calorie cycling. I just have a simple list in Google Keep of Sunday-Saturday that I update for each upcoming week. I allot a daily calorie goal for each day based on what/where I expect to eat and ensure that it totals 13,125. Then I just update my calorie goal in MFP every day. I'm still doing this with banking calories across weeks, but slightly modified. So, I had a line that said "Week of March 10 +720" and one "Week of March 17 +254", which were the extra calories I banked from the previous weeks. For the week of March 10, I still allotted calories like I usually do, except that instead of the usual 13,125 total, I used 13,845 (usual +720) as the total. It is a bit of effort to do this, but it really only takes a few minutes to do so too.
Wow! Thank you for such a thorough response! I am still a novice @ maintaining fat loss using this app. I don't have a consistent data on my TDEE. This past week I synched my Fitbit with MFP, I will keep an eye on the trend.
I think for now I will do calorie cycling with MFP's Net calories and will look into Google Keep Notes for extended calorie banking. Again, thank you!!
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Tolstolobik wrote: »missperfectpitch wrote: »Tolstolobik wrote: »missperfectpitch wrote: »Name: missperfectpitch
My new approach is going to be viewing calories by a couple of weeks at a time, or maybe even on a monthly basis, particularly if I've got a vacation coming up for which I want to eat anything and everything. Since there are some weeks where I don't eat out at all, I can eat at a slight deficit those weeks (without really even noticing) and then bank those calories for an upcoming vacation week to start out with a surplus of base calories to work with.
I am pretty new to calorie cycling. A couple of questions for you. When you cycle your calories, do you run a deficit from Net calories? Will you use a spreadsheet for a bi-weekly/monthly calorie "bank" or MFP offers this option and I'm not seeing it.
So I use TDEE, which already factors in exercise/activity calories, instead of MFP's base calories+exercise calories method, as my exercise and daily activity are pretty consistent every week. My TDEE works out to about 1875 (total of 13,125 per week), and I'll typically do 1500 calories one day, 2150 Friday and Saturday, and then somewhere in between for the remaining days. If I'm going to eat out at a restaurant with several courses/desserts etc., I might budget 2600 for that day, have one 2000 day, two low days, and the others low-medium days. I'll also make adjustments afterwards, so if I ended up eating only about ~2300 instead of 2600, I'll shift the remainder to another day or spread it out among a couple of days. I will usually only sync my Fitbit with MFP and add the calorie adjustment if I'm on vacation as I tend to walk 15k-20k+ steps per day, which is above my normal activity. For example, I've budgeted 2550 calories each for next Friday and Saturday when I'm on vacation, but I expect to walk a lot, so I'll eat back extra calories based on MFP's calorie adjustment (so I'll probably end up at around 2650-2750 calories those days).
If you use MFP's base calories + exercise calories method, you could do the deficit from net calories (which would end up being your TDEE), or you could do something like bank most or all of the exercise calories.
I use an outside app (Google Keep Notes) to keep track of things as I don't think that MFP (at least, the free version) has the functionality to keep track of calorie cycling. I just have a simple list in Google Keep of Sunday-Saturday that I update for each upcoming week. I allot a daily calorie goal for each day based on what/where I expect to eat and ensure that it totals 13,125. Then I just update my calorie goal in MFP every day. I'm still doing this with banking calories across weeks, but slightly modified. So, I had a line that said "Week of March 10 +720" and one "Week of March 17 +254", which were the extra calories I banked from the previous weeks. For the week of March 10, I still allotted calories like I usually do, except that instead of the usual 13,125 total, I used 13,845 (usual +720) as the total. It is a bit of effort to do this, but it really only takes a few minutes to do so too.
Wow! Thank you for such a thorough response! I am still a novice @ maintaining fat loss using this app. I don't have a consistent data on my TDEE. This past week I synched my Fitbit with MFP, I will keep an eye on the trend.
I think for now I will do calorie cycling with MFP's Net calories and will look into Google Keep Notes for extended calorie banking. Again, thank you!!
You're welcome! It just occurred to me that something like Google Sheets would probably be easier for doing the actual calculations (I just use the calculator on my phone) - I just use Google Keep Notes for several other lists, so that's what I'm used to.1 -
missperfectpitch wrote: »Tolstolobik wrote: »missperfectpitch wrote: »Tolstolobik wrote: »missperfectpitch wrote: »Name: missperfectpitch
My new approach is going to be viewing calories by a couple of weeks at a time, or maybe even on a monthly basis, particularly if I've got a vacation coming up for which I want to eat anything and everything. Since there are some weeks where I don't eat out at all, I can eat at a slight deficit those weeks (without really even noticing) and then bank those calories for an upcoming vacation week to start out with a surplus of base calories to work with.
I am pretty new to calorie cycling. A couple of questions for you. When you cycle your calories, do you run a deficit from Net calories? Will you use a spreadsheet for a bi-weekly/monthly calorie "bank" or MFP offers this option and I'm not seeing it.
So I use TDEE, which already factors in exercise/activity calories, instead of MFP's base calories+exercise calories method, as my exercise and daily activity are pretty consistent every week. My TDEE works out to about 1875 (total of 13,125 per week), and I'll typically do 1500 calories one day, 2150 Friday and Saturday, and then somewhere in between for the remaining days. If I'm going to eat out at a restaurant with several courses/desserts etc., I might budget 2600 for that day, have one 2000 day, two low days, and the others low-medium days. I'll also make adjustments afterwards, so if I ended up eating only about ~2300 instead of 2600, I'll shift the remainder to another day or spread it out among a couple of days. I will usually only sync my Fitbit with MFP and add the calorie adjustment if I'm on vacation as I tend to walk 15k-20k+ steps per day, which is above my normal activity. For example, I've budgeted 2550 calories each for next Friday and Saturday when I'm on vacation, but I expect to walk a lot, so I'll eat back extra calories based on MFP's calorie adjustment (so I'll probably end up at around 2650-2750 calories those days).
If you use MFP's base calories + exercise calories method, you could do the deficit from net calories (which would end up being your TDEE), or you could do something like bank most or all of the exercise calories.
I use an outside app (Google Keep Notes) to keep track of things as I don't think that MFP (at least, the free version) has the functionality to keep track of calorie cycling. I just have a simple list in Google Keep of Sunday-Saturday that I update for each upcoming week. I allot a daily calorie goal for each day based on what/where I expect to eat and ensure that it totals 13,125. Then I just update my calorie goal in MFP every day. I'm still doing this with banking calories across weeks, but slightly modified. So, I had a line that said "Week of March 10 +720" and one "Week of March 17 +254", which were the extra calories I banked from the previous weeks. For the week of March 10, I still allotted calories like I usually do, except that instead of the usual 13,125 total, I used 13,845 (usual +720) as the total. It is a bit of effort to do this, but it really only takes a few minutes to do so too.
Wow! Thank you for such a thorough response! I am still a novice @ maintaining fat loss using this app. I don't have a consistent data on my TDEE. This past week I synched my Fitbit with MFP, I will keep an eye on the trend.
I think for now I will do calorie cycling with MFP's Net calories and will look into Google Keep Notes for extended calorie banking. Again, thank you!!
You're welcome! It just occurred to me that something like Google Sheets would probably be easier for doing the actual calculations (I just use the calculator on my phone) - I just use Google Keep Notes for several other lists, so that's what I'm used to.
That's a great idea! May I ask you one more question. Do you find it's easier just to use TDEE rather than MFP's base calories+exercise calories? The reason why I'm asking is because my steps vary anywhere from 10,000 to 15000 a day. I mostly do walking for exercise with occasional resistance exercises here and there, nothing major. Fitbit tells me I burn 1850-2000/day. I've been calorie cycling averaging 1900 a day. I have a weekly calorie goal of 13300. This past week I synced MFP with Fitbit. I have to say in the last couple of days I've been trying to get more steps in so I can eat back a few more exercise calories. Not sure if this would work long term.🤔 I might consider your method of syncing the Fitbit on the days when I know I will be walking a lot more than on my normal days. This might be what I will end up doing.0 -
Tolstolobik wrote: »missperfectpitch wrote: »Tolstolobik wrote: »missperfectpitch wrote: »Tolstolobik wrote: »missperfectpitch wrote: »Name: missperfectpitch
My new approach is going to be viewing calories by a couple of weeks at a time, or maybe even on a monthly basis, particularly if I've got a vacation coming up for which I want to eat anything and everything. Since there are some weeks where I don't eat out at all, I can eat at a slight deficit those weeks (without really even noticing) and then bank those calories for an upcoming vacation week to start out with a surplus of base calories to work with.
I am pretty new to calorie cycling. A couple of questions for you. When you cycle your calories, do you run a deficit from Net calories? Will you use a spreadsheet for a bi-weekly/monthly calorie "bank" or MFP offers this option and I'm not seeing it.
So I use TDEE, which already factors in exercise/activity calories, instead of MFP's base calories+exercise calories method, as my exercise and daily activity are pretty consistent every week. My TDEE works out to about 1875 (total of 13,125 per week), and I'll typically do 1500 calories one day, 2150 Friday and Saturday, and then somewhere in between for the remaining days. If I'm going to eat out at a restaurant with several courses/desserts etc., I might budget 2600 for that day, have one 2000 day, two low days, and the others low-medium days. I'll also make adjustments afterwards, so if I ended up eating only about ~2300 instead of 2600, I'll shift the remainder to another day or spread it out among a couple of days. I will usually only sync my Fitbit with MFP and add the calorie adjustment if I'm on vacation as I tend to walk 15k-20k+ steps per day, which is above my normal activity. For example, I've budgeted 2550 calories each for next Friday and Saturday when I'm on vacation, but I expect to walk a lot, so I'll eat back extra calories based on MFP's calorie adjustment (so I'll probably end up at around 2650-2750 calories those days).
If you use MFP's base calories + exercise calories method, you could do the deficit from net calories (which would end up being your TDEE), or you could do something like bank most or all of the exercise calories.
I use an outside app (Google Keep Notes) to keep track of things as I don't think that MFP (at least, the free version) has the functionality to keep track of calorie cycling. I just have a simple list in Google Keep of Sunday-Saturday that I update for each upcoming week. I allot a daily calorie goal for each day based on what/where I expect to eat and ensure that it totals 13,125. Then I just update my calorie goal in MFP every day. I'm still doing this with banking calories across weeks, but slightly modified. So, I had a line that said "Week of March 10 +720" and one "Week of March 17 +254", which were the extra calories I banked from the previous weeks. For the week of March 10, I still allotted calories like I usually do, except that instead of the usual 13,125 total, I used 13,845 (usual +720) as the total. It is a bit of effort to do this, but it really only takes a few minutes to do so too.
Wow! Thank you for such a thorough response! I am still a novice @ maintaining fat loss using this app. I don't have a consistent data on my TDEE. This past week I synched my Fitbit with MFP, I will keep an eye on the trend.
I think for now I will do calorie cycling with MFP's Net calories and will look into Google Keep Notes for extended calorie banking. Again, thank you!!
You're welcome! It just occurred to me that something like Google Sheets would probably be easier for doing the actual calculations (I just use the calculator on my phone) - I just use Google Keep Notes for several other lists, so that's what I'm used to.
That's a great idea! May I ask you one more question. Do you find it's easier just to use TDEE rather than MFP's base calories+exercise calories? The reason why I'm asking is because my steps vary anywhere from 10,000 to 15000 a day. I mostly do walking for exercise with occasional resistance exercises here and there, nothing major. Fitbit tells me I burn 1850-2000/day. I've been calorie cycling averaging 1900 a day. I have a weekly calorie goal of 13300. This past week I synced MFP with Fitbit. I have to say in the last couple of days I've been trying to get more steps in so I can eat back a few more exercise calories. Not sure if this would work long term.🤔 I might consider your method of syncing the Fitbit on the days when I know I will be walking a lot more than on my normal days. This might be what I will end up doing.
Yeah, for me, it's easier to use TDEE instead of MFP's method as I can easily budget out a week in advance, and it's less of a headache for me. Though, of course, my activity is pretty consistent - about 10k steps every day, with one day 13-15k steps, and my workouts are pretty consistent too. If your activity varies quite a bit, is it the same variation each week? (Have your past several weeks all had a weekly calorie goal around 13,300?). If so, then you could just use that as your TDEE and sync with your Fitbit on dates with higher activity. Alternatively, you could just test out that weekly calorie goal for a couple weeks and adjust if you gain or lose weight.0 -
missperfectpitch wrote: »
Yeah, for me, it's easier to use TDEE instead of MFP's method as I can easily budget out a week in advance, and it's less of a headache for me.
This. The reason why I had a weekly goal is because I liked that I could plan my week out in advance as well. I think your advice to sync the Fitbit on higher days would be a perfect solution! Brilliant! I will test this out and see how it goes.
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Name: Faebert
Age: 40
Height: 5’6
Total weight lost: about 50lbs
Time it took to lose: on and off 3 years. First 30 in 4 months and then gradually reduced goal weight
How long in maintenance: 22 months
Maintenance weight range: 115-120
Average weight recorded from 2017: 121
Average weight recorded from 2018: 114.6
Average weight recorded from January: 117.4
Average weight recorded from February: 117.8
3 March: 119
10 March: 117.75
17 March:
24 March:
31 March:
Successes/struggles: Back in mid-range and a successful week with workouts. Upped my running distance again and fastest mile so pleased with continuing progress. Couldn’t do all the classes I wanted as my kids have been sick but I’ve done what I can at home. Have a bit of a cold now myself but hoping it’s just mild.
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Name: Pam
Age:60
Height:5'5
Total weight lost:200
Time it took to lose:Started 1/2016
How long in maintenance: Since Sept 2017
Maintenance weight range:130-135
Average weight recorded from 2018:
Average weight recorded from January:131.75
Average weight recorded from February:130.75
Week of...
March 3:132
March 10:130.8
March 17:
March 24:
March 31
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: Weight is back down again within the bottom of my range.. I use a system which works for me 132-133 means yellow, start watching 134 or above means red, time to get back on the wagon if I have the same number 2-3 weeks in a row.
Going to be warmer this week so more outside walking time. YAY!!10 -
Name: Bella
Age: 60
Height: 5'5"
Total weight lost: 37 pounds
Time it took to lose: 6 months
How long in maintenance: 1 month
Maintenance weight range: 127-132
Average weight recorded from 2018 (12 months):
Average weight recorded from January: 134 (was not in maintenance yet)
Average weight recorded from February: 131.8
Week of...
March 3: 130.8
March 10: 130.4
March 17:
March 24:
March 31
Success(es)/struggle(s) of the week: I had to work very late two nights this week and was unable to exercise those nights and then was exhausted. The night in bewteen my two late nights, I did a double yoga class which felt amazing. My work brought us food for dinner but I brought my own since their food was not healthy for me. I felt good sticking to my eating plan. ☺8 -
Name: Elaine
Age: 50
Height:5’3”
Total weight lost: 33 pounds since my highest weight, but 30 pounds since my last round of weight loss
Time it took to lose: 10 months to lose 25 pounds
How long in maintenance: 4 months since I’ve been calling it maintenance, even though I lost five more pounds very gradually. February 2019 was the first month of not gaining or losing from beginning to end.
Maintenance weight range: 127-132
Average weight recorded from 2018: I don’t know. 2018 was the year I lost 30 pounds.
Average weight recorded from January:
Average weight recorded from February:
Week of...
March 3: 129 pounds moving average 129.5
March 10: 129.5 pounds moving average 129.5
March 17:
March 24:
March 31
Success(es)/challengesof the week:
Successes: made it to two yoga classes. Managed to avoid late night chocolate by putting the chocolate in my daughter’s bedroom. Even on Friday night when she was out of the house. And at first it seemed bad that I have gained half a pound this week but my moving average is the same so I’m declaring it a win for maintenance.
Challenges: My ten year old niece was just admitted to the psychiatric ward for possibly a week. So yesterday was a pretty tough day, going to visit her in the hospital, joining my sister for a meeting with the social worker and then the psychiatrist. Anyway I’m telling all these details because at the end of the day at home I drank red wine and ordered Italian food including lemon ricotta cookies. BUT the past me would have eaten a whole lot more. I at least worked on portion control with the pasta and cookies and ate a salad too.
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