Energy issues.

Theoldguy1 wrote: »

Do you alwayrs record almost an hour awake/restless?

That's normal for me as well. But I do get about 9 hours in bed every day. Actually, it is totally normal to wake up several times each night. We just don't remember it and fall asleep again shortly thereafter. Also Fitbit is not god. It seems to record more woken up times if you're a somewhat restless sleeper.

kimny72 wrote: »

Personally, I think 20k steps is plenty of calorie burning cardio for the day. No need to artificially jack up your energy to do even more. Asking your body to do more than it can is a recipe for a crash and burn.

All you need to lose weight is a calorie deficit. Technically you can lose weight doing no purposeful exercise at all if you had to. And 20k steps IS cardio

QFT. It's easier to restrict intake than to try and overcome excess through exercise.

This is a weird number. I'm sorry to question this, but i walk something similar over the weekends and i don't get anywhere near 3100 calories.
Apologies if I am misunderstanding the screen shot.

Regardless, i agree Kimny72.
If you're burning 3100 calories from activity, add that to your maintenance calories which should be anywhere from 1800 to 2500 and you have the limit of what you should be under to lose weight.

But as far as the exercise goes, and this is just personal experience and in no way meant to pressure, but i started with a walk, then added Insanity, then got addicted to it and added weight lifting and at night i added Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and yoga.

I understand not everyone has time to do all of that, but in my case, it always felt impossible, until i started doing it.
It hurt in the beginning, but my body adapted and so can yours if you really want to do something new.

kimny72 wrote: »

Personally, I think 20k steps is plenty of calorie burning cardio for the day. No need to artificially jack up your energy to do even more. Asking your body to do more than it can is a recipe for a crash and burn.

All you need to lose weight is a calorie deficit. Technically you can lose weight doing no purposeful exercise at all if you had to. And 20k steps IS cardio

Agreed... quoted for emphasis.

meganhirschi31886 wrote: »

kimny72 wrote: »

If that much movement is a part of your workday, I personally would not do cardio on top of that, I'd save it for the weekends.

I would have to do strength training in the AM before I took any of those steps!

It probably depends on what your goals are and what kind d of workouts you're looking to do

If work didn't start at 5 am I'd totally do strength training in the AM however I didn't even think about doing strength training at all. I always thought I had to do cardio for fat lose. I really want lose weight be able to keep up with my 9 year old and be slimmer.

Strength training has many benefits as does cardio, but neither promotes weight loss solely on their own. They can be part of the process, but rest assure you can lose weight without either if you were to choose.

I highly recommend strength training regardless of your goal(s). Losing weight is not only fat but LBM(e.g.-muscle, bone density, etc). Strength training helps retain muscle while losing fat and adding bone density while adding strength which is very important as we age.

I also agree that you appear to be well over than the recommended amount of cardio already. I would suggest that you look into a well written resistance program that utilizes auto regulation to help with your recovery as well as give you the proper stimulus. Two sessions a week would be a good start and transitioning after a few weeks to three sessions a week could be plenty of time in most cases.

No wonder you're tired.

You need to create a deficit to lose weight, but make sure you are eating enough to sustain that level of activity.
It might be worth looking at exactly what you're eating as well. For example, I can go for hours on a bowl of porridge for breakfast, but fruit and yoghurt doesn't cut it. Even if there isn't much in the calories between them.

It would be worth trying things that are nice to do and make you feel better. Yoga, swimming, a walk or football in the park are all things that the 9 year old might like to be involved in, will increase your activity level, and hopefully would be a bit less daunting when you're exhausted and can't really be bothered.

You can lose weight with NO exercise. From the looks of it, you're already getting exercise from work. So concentrate on your calories. ;-)