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Week 6.5 update
Still just sharing this for those curious, not bc I'm worried. The last two weeks my weight has finally been over 145lbs. Been weighing every few days just to watch fluctuations & bc I thought I was close to TDEE. Weight has been all over the place from 147-153. My scale doesn't seem totally accurate & I've been eating…
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My Week 9 update
*If you are curious about my journey from the beginning the links to those updates are all at the bottom of this post* So whats up with you Amanda? You are eating more and you are SOOOO not weighing less. Yes, yes this is true. I started at 145, and right now the scale usually shows me 148-150 when I hop on it. So you are…
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Summer plans anyone?
I know for some of you, the days are cooling and Autumn is on the way.... but for some of us it's Spring, with Summer right around the corner! Anyone have any races or events planned for the summer? Any events where you get to be more active than you normally are? My plans are still up in the air as I transition from…
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things becoming more clearer!
so happy i got this fitbit. on working days i have been burning on average 1600-1800 depending on my workout and how long im at work (desk job) i try moving as much as i can i now run up and down the stairs at work twice daily (5th floor) since then i have been able to create a manageable deficit based on activity. so on…
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Fitbit Charge HR Accuracy
Hi. I'm new here and I just got the Fitbit HR yesterday. I didn't start wearing it until about 3:30 in the afternoon and by bedtime I was up to around 2,100 calories burned. I was tremendously busy moving around until I even started to wear it and I didn't have gym time yesterday. It will be interesting to see how much it…
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Correct- here are measurements of 30 day progress
Ok so I have moved...up. That's depressing. Here are my numbers on March 31 and today: Waist: 29 then.... 29.75 now Belly: 36 then...35.25 now Hips: 37.5 then...38.5 now Butt: 39 then...39 now Arms: 11 then...11.5 now Thighs: 22 then...20.5 now Weight: 143.3 then...144.2 now So outside of very minimal slimming of belly…
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Neither scale or inches budging??
Ok so been a month and haven't lost any inches and haven't moved the scale. I'm eating at -15% or above. What gives?
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Everythings changed - need help with numbers
Previously I was working out quite a lot - running, a little weight lifting, circuit training and bodyweight training. My cals got up to 2400 and I was bouncing around with the same few pounds, losing, gaining, losing....ANYWAY, after a fall at the gym about a month ago, I badly bruised the base of my back. Initially it…
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Activity Level Advice
Hi all. I was hoping I could get your advice on which activity level I should choose. I have a desk job with not much moving around at all. I've been doing NROLFW 3 times a week (Stage 1 so about 20-25 minutes each session) and I TRY to walk for 30 mins around the neighborhood at least twice (sometimes 3 times) per week. I…
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New...need calorie help
Hi all, I am hoping for some help from here. I am trying to set my calories up and looking for some suggestions. I am 35 year old female, desk job, two small kids at home. I lift 3 times a week (new rules of lifting for women) and swim twice a week for 30 mins. I went and used the scooby calculator and came up with the…
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FINALLY!
So over the past few weeks i have been working on cleaning up my eating habits. For breakfast, for awhile i was having a bagel with cream cheese, now i am having an egg white breakfast burrito with jimmy dean turkey sausage, peppers and onions. For lunch i was having a sandwich, goldfish, almonds and maybe another snack,…
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Any late 40s or older women having success?
Hi. I'm new to the group. I just turned 48 last week. I've been on mfp for 4 1/2 years and my first year in I lost 100 pounds. I maintained, not easily, for a long while. I've had to eat very little and workout hard to maintain. Now the past year and a nasty injury kept me sidelined and I gained 10 pounds (while eating…
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kind of confused....
I use my weekly Fitbit report to calculate my TDEE and put that number into FitBit then subtract the percentage (e.g. 5%-10%) from that number and put it into MFP, is that correct?
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Just starting out
ESo, I'm sticking a toe in and trying something different. I found a few different TDEE calculation sites and I've taken the lowest which was over 2000 and I'm deducting 20% from that, to equal 1689 as a calorie goal. I'm 148lbs trying to lose 10lbs and doing cardio kickboxing (on the heavy bag), kettlebell and walking,…
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Decrease or increase calories.
I increased my calories March 9. As of today I have lost 0.4lbs. The scale continues to go up and down the same few pounds. I exercise one hour a day, 5 days a week. I was wondering should I increase, or decrease my calories by 100? Weight 214.4 Height 5' 6"
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Increased 4 days ago. When to weigh?
Hi all! I increased cals from 1700 to 2200 after finding the general consensus for my TDEE to be 2500-2600. When should I weigh myself? I want to find my actual TDEE, so it'd be a necessary evil, I suppose. But I don't want to jump the gun.
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Just to clarify how I should set my mfp and fitbit
I am looking for confirmation and clarification that I am setting my calories correctly. I am 53 years old, weigh 88 kg, 160 cm tall. In Scooby under an option of 20% lose fat and lightly active I come out with BMR of 1538, TDEE of 2115 and eat 1692. In fat2fit, I comet with a BMR of 1545 or 1515 (with a guess as to my…
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Two Week Update for Anyone Curious
Calorie increase update for those curious: Been bumped up for about two weeks now. After 2 days of caloric increase, my weight dropped down 2lbs, then went back up almost immediately so looking back I am guessing that was a water fluctuation. So started at 145lb, two days of 143, and now I am back to 145lb. The entire last…
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Wondering if my figures are right & what to do next
Hi all I've been back tracking calories and using fitbit for about a month, with Heybales help recently I switched to eating a 15% cut of the average fitbit cal burn, however, my weight is stuck. I've been stuck at this weight for a month now, it fluctuates us 0.2kg some days other days it goes down 0.2kg but on the whole…
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FitBit calories 1,100 daily calories lower than my calculated TDEE
(reposted from a status update) I am still not sold on the accuracy of this FitBit Flex. I simply do not have the time to adjust every time I walk 5-15 minutes with my 37lb nursing bags.... and I wonder if that's whats causing this huge difference. I wore my HR monitor around campus one day, and while carrying my bags and…
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Help with TDEE/Fitbit/Heybales Spreadsheet
Alright, I've been at this before but it seems that after baby #2, I need to constantly remind myself that less isn't always better. I've been doing the math with my numbers and I just want to make sure I'm on the right track. I'm pulling numbers from different places to see what the pattern might be. I would hate to be…
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Activity level advice please :)
Hello :) I am just wondering if someone can give me advice on what my activity level is. I lift weights 3x a week for 40 minutes per session (heavy lifting). I do 10 minutes of HIIT on the treadmill after my lifting seasons, and I run 3 miles one day a week. Aside from that, I walk some throughout the day, but I'm mostly…
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I've got my Scooby numbers... now WHERE I put them in MFP???
BMR: 1415 TDEE: 1945 Cut Value: 1653 Which one do I enter as my GOAL? BMR or Cut Value? Do I eat back the calories after I enter my daily exercice? Goal and NET should be the same at the end of the day? Thank you... I'm a MFP user since 35 days... but have not lost anything in the last 21 days... may be I'm doing something…
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results are in....
fitbit flex says activity level over 7 days for tdee is 1800 so around the lightly active bracket. this week was a kind of typical week but i did miss a couple of workouts but walked instead of these. now i can finally adjust my eating goal. fit bit starts every day with 1450 based on sedentary - i usually get up to 1550…
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Calories slowly crept back down. Help!
I started EM2WL last fall and upped my calories from 1500 to 2300-2800 with good results. I lift heavy 5 days a week for 45-60 min and do minimal cardio, maybe an hour per week. But slowly in the past 6 months, my calories have crept back down. I'm hovering around 1700 and not losing weight and only losing strength. I'm…
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several questions here if anyone has an answer..thanks!!
first off... does anyone know an inexpensive pedometer /music player that works i would like to keep up with stuff away from home.. or an offline app that helps you keep track without internet access!!??!! i am still new to this so it seems maybe my proportioning is in excess when planning meals i have cut down alot of…
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Lift Like a Girl – Let’s Choose to be MORE, Not Less
Nia Shanks most recent episode is basically talking all about the major concepts behind Eat More 2 Weigh Less. It's about eating more, not less. If you don't do podcasts on your phone, you can listen on your computer by just following this link webtalkradio.net/internet-talk-radio/lift-like-a-girl/ "Glance at the cover of…
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EM2WL YouTube Videos
In attempt to answer some of the most FAQs here in the forum, below are YouTube video responses. Our hope is they will make it easier to find the answers that many newbies are looking for a bit more quickly. ALL videos are viewable from here at our YouTube channel EM2WL:…
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fit bit over 5 days
average TDEE is 2399 ... i am currently eating 1689 and weight has maintained so far (i know its only 5 days in. i went on a few flat walks did zumba which i logged with HRM and it appears to be picking up when i am doing something more strenuous. i am worried its overestimating my daily activity since when i have been sat…
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Calories burned discrepancy
So MFP puts my 30 min strength training at 98 calories and my 20 min cardio at 90 calories. But my Polar FT7 which uses heart rate monitoring has me at 321 calories total for the two. That's a large difference. I would think Polar is right bc configured to my age, height, weight and constant HR monitoring during exercise…
