is really trying to NOT emotionally eat tonight . . . not completely successsfule but not a total disaster either

Happy Saturday, Ravenclaws!

I had a horrible week in terms of actual exercise, and I have to admit that I ate either birthday cake or a cupcake on four separate days this week, so I kept expecting the scale to go the other direction. Now I did also stay in calories aside from the weekend, but still.

To my very joyous surprise, I ended up with a loss this week! I almost feel bad about it because aside from staying in calories and just randomly jogging about my day at home (literally, I've started jogging in place while doing just about everything, lol), I didn't really do as much to earn it. It's been down to the same weight for two days, though, so I'm going to count it as a birthday present. It was awesome to move two gem stones to my 'pounds lost' jar this morning.

Hope you all did as well! I know it's a lot, lot harder when you're doing all the right things and not seeing the results, but I'm sure they're there! If it's not a scale number, it'll be a measurement, or maybe your body is just getting stronger/healthier, but I'm sure it's there.

Hmm, have to go back through my week and find my veggie-servings. What day are the challenges posted? I need to get on top of them earlier in the week!

Terrible week with in laws here through Monday, have not gotten down UNDER daily calories yet but am getting closer. Showed a loss by some miracle?? NEED to work excercise in. Decided on a career change and have been putting time into that instead of The Body. Always some give and take in the schedule somewhere..I need that 26 hour days they have on Deep Space Nine.

azuzi....totally have had days like that...yesterday I wanted to do something but not...took a sheet to the park, laid down and read....it was perfect

Hi guys, sorry to post these late in the weekend, am on holiday and couldn't find the internet anywhere... But, the challenges for this week are:
Exercise... Last week it was strength, this week it's cardio... Build some interval training into your cardio. Short bursts of high intensity are far more effective than a long slog...

Food: am keeping it traditional... Sugar!! Keep it down!! If you go over your sugar goal, ensure it's from fruit only, not added sugars to other things.

Happy weekend x

Azsuzi- I have the fitbit and I think of it like a super powered pedometer. It has a "3D motion sensor" so it tracks you movement through the day & your activity level and gauges your whole day burn on that. I'm sure there is a way more technical explanation but it's beyond me. I just think of it as magic and go with it. Lol. I enjoy it and the challenge to get more steps and make my flower grow (Your activity level is shown in how big your flower is....) keeps me moving around.

Hey all hope everyone is having a good weekend. (WARNING: I feel a rant coming on) My weeks almost through and I cannot wait. It's been poop here at work for the last 2 days. The only thing I can say is if you have a problem while staying at a hotel please let the desk know. We would much rather help you out and have you enjoy your stay than have you suffer then have you yell at us as you check out and demand compensation. If we don't know about the problem we can't fix it for you. This is hospitality people we want you to have a great stay that's how we get business!! Ugh. Also I am not magical no matter how much you badger me I cannot magically make a room in the type you want appear out of thin air. If I could I wouldn't be working here. (End of rant...sorry it's been a trying weekend) So anyway other than work it's been a good week. Got lots of stuff done had good foods and had a great workout on Thursday and have another planned for tonight. I was supposed to do it yesterday but after work I spent 3 hours running errands and trust me I was burning the calories running from place to place. I earned the game night with my friends. Tonight it's back to wallbreaker and Cardio Boxing. I really enjoy the boxing part on your shape. I'm thinking of getting the UFC fighting workout one too since I enjoy this one so much. Here's hoping that today goes better from here on out (getting yelled at at 7am is not fun). Happy Sunday to everyone!
Ayla

I'm thinking about getting a FitBit. Korki and anyone else that has one - how does it count calories burned? I'm all confused on how it works since its not a heart rate monitor. But I think the sleep tracking feature would be neat. I don't think I get good, sound sleep and that would certainly help me figure it out.

Hi Sue, I looked around and here's what I could find on the FitBit calculations:

When you first join Fitbit, your dashboard will show an estimated number of calories burned for that day. The estimate is based on your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) which we calculate using the height, weight, age, and gender information you provide during sign up. If you are using the Tracker and syncing your data we replace the estimated burn with the Tracker's data plus any additional activities you might log that were not captured by the Tracker.

When nothing much is logged, we try to guess how many calories you have burned if you were sedentary. (Sedentary means you got out of bed, got dressed, went to your day job, came home, and did nothing much more than walk to your car). Once you start logging activities, we assume that you know best and we stop estimating; we use the data you provided. If you only log a small portion of your activity, we'll be missing a lot.

(If you are not using the Tracker and just using our online tools to manually log your food or activities, then you will see estimated calorie burn plus what you manually log in activities. If this applies to you, you should probably also log your general life activities - i.e. 8 hours of working at a desk or 1 hour or so of house work to get a better picture of how many calories you are actually burning.)

What I get from this is that it starts off with a similar template to MFP. Then, after it's collected some actual data based on our walking, daily duties, what not, it alters that calculation for better guestimate.

Today was my first time logging an actual "activity" (hiking). I did feel a burn at bits, but the calories given me are higher than I would have predicted. That could be that the tracker is actually counting my steps vs. MFP which had no real data, but I don't know.

I use it mostly for motivation. I like having it, it's fun to use, and I enjoy the sleep thing. The steps are awesome, and flights traveled is also a lot of fun. If I didn't already belong to MFP, I would have gone with their whole program. FitBit is building a "real" community so that you can find others in the are and challenge each other and such.

I highly recommend it. No regrets here.

Oh, and the sleeping thing. I often "pass out" watching TV than consciously falling alseep, so I often forget to press "start" on the tracker. Don't worry about it. As long as it's on your wrist, you can go to the website later, log what time you fell asleep and woke up, and it'll check the tracker for those moments.

This week is going to be very tough for me when it comes to OWLs. I am almost always over my sugar goal. Any suggestions?

Decent day today a little strength training and couch to 5k. My wife bought us 7 new workout videos yay! Also for a laugh I will admit this. I didn't have money to buy dumbbells so I found me some nice heavy rocks outside. Those are my weights.

Forgot to weigh in this morning....instead had to weigh in after dinner ! Horrible, I know so I show a gain from last week. Disappointing...but I have been working out like crazy so in time i will see results!