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It's funny, my husband is about 6' and 175. Normal build, little firm gut on him, just the way he's built despite plenty of cardio. All his clothes are too big for me now, in fact when we bought hockey jerseys for our local team this fall, he got a large and I got a medium and it's not tight on me. I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around it.3
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Takes a long time for your brain to catch up!2
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That is amazing, Nic. In the last images you sent you ARE looking pretty thin!1
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If any peops are using MFP **without an external device** and relying on the MFP activity definitions and have recently re-done their numbers .... have a look at my post in Health and Weight loss: Changes to definitions and advice
MFP has changed the activity factor of "not very active", "lightly active", "active", and "very active"
Afaik with an external device and negative calories enabled none of the labels and values matter as at the end of the day your number should equal what the device detected!1 -
I have my activity level set to active and I am linked to my fitbit. It works because it basically doesn't credit my activity until I clear 10k steps, and then conservatively.1
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Yup. When integration works and negative calories are enabled the original MFP setting is immaterial**
At the end of the day your MFP "adjusted" calories will equal your Fitbit TDEE.
**the only materiality comes with the size of the adjustment. The closer you pre-match your activities the smaller the final adjustment late in the day. Of course this leads to a larger negative adjustment early in the day. Yes, yes, this creates headaches. MFP splits your day in 1440 minutes and gives you a fixed amount of calories per minute. Fitbit adds up your calories as you're earning them leading to the whole mish-mash!
***unless things have changed ;-) These past few years I've been logging on CRONometer, so who knows!
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My baseline calorie level is low enough that I don't enable negative calories, lol2
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Ah. I used to because I was set up as very active which required some level of deliberate activity to be surpassed (in my case at the time about 15750 steps). And on some occasions I would not quite get up to that. There's no right or wrong: just what works for our individualized hamsters🐹!🧐2
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I still haven't sorted out my fitbit. Mainly because I lost it for a few weeks! (it had migrated into a bag of Christmas bows - and did a fine job hiding). I'm looking forward to getting more engaged. It is exciting to read your stories hear. And inspiring. I've been in a bit of a mental bog it feels pretty well since I got back in November. Rose up for the necessary things. But just that. Hopefully that head space passes after the eye surgeries and a head and heart full of good spirit will come with the spring!!!!3
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Go Laurie!2
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Progress - slooooow progress. Finally shaking off some post medical bloat.2
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Well it's not a small amount of "medical" so yeah
But progress good!😎1 -
It has been a while since I've strung a few days of 500-600Cal deficits in close proximity myself.
It has also been fun (but unusual) to see the scale clicking down more or less in lockstep!
Doubt it will continue to do so regularly but kind a fun to see 0.2 down every day/other day.
Back into June territory again at 157
Recent minimums were in August at ~155 till the 18th. Then a scale time warp to September 8 when I was up 3.5lbs from that and increasing to up to ~162).2 -
And every doctor visit I have to get on the scale- full winter clothes and shoes. So at least 3 more pounds to make me unhappy. 🙁2
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But you know that's a fake number2
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I don't blame you! 😎1 -
I broke out laughing, Yooly. Rarely hear you speak so "coarsely"
Always pisses me off too. Especially with winter boots! 1 -
lauriekallis wrote: »I broke out laughing, Yooly. Rarely hear you speak so "coarsely" Always pisses me off too. Especially with winter boots!
Oh my dear, dear Laurie- be grateful you aren’t in my car while I’m driving! The air is positively blue 🤬. I learned a lot of creative vocabulary being a teacher and many years of my husband’s military service. You’d be shocked at how often I drop f-bombs!
However on the surface I’m just a sweet little old lady. 😇1 -
Weight has been all over the place. Surprisingly low at times. Until I changed the batteries in the scale. Damn!!!1
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Uh oh
Mean scale
You could zero it one more time 🤷♂️
It's sometimes good for a 0.2 boost 😛
So is a cold!!!1 -
Nah - it’s the batteries. I’ll get an accurate nekkid reading tomorrow morning.
Take care of the cold!1
