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True. But it tracked the elevated heart rate during my run. It even identified the parts of the run when I was in the "peak" zone. But the calorie estimates are still quite a bit lower. If the Charge HR is the more accurate of the two, fine, I'll just adjust my calorie intake downward. But I had found the Flex to be…

I think the real question is, how many hours per day are you comfortable moving? (As opposed to, say, resting, sleeping, pitching or taking down camp, eating, relaxing, taking photos, etc.) I could walk a mile an hour on relatively easy terrain without much trouble. But I probably wouldn't want to keep it up for 12 hours…

Hmmm. Yeah, well, there's definitely a discrepancy. My 3km treadmill run gave me around 190-195 calories with the Flex. Today I just ran it with the Charge HR and it gave me 151 calories for the exact same time and distance, despite registering the higher heart rate.

One more thing: The lack of exercise is probably not why you gained 25 pounds. Weight loss or gain is mostly about the food. It's a little about the exercise. But all you really need to lose weight is to create a calorie deficit. Sure, cardio will help you eat more and still achieve a deficit. But the first thing you…

Unless you have a particularly grueling job, I doubt you spend all your waking hours at the office. Just do your exercise in your non-working time! I also have a desk job. (And I'm also "only" 5 feet tall... well, 5'1" actually, but same difference. I still manage to get a fair amount of activity into my day. Some ways to…

Yeah, I've heard that too. I can wait and see if it levels off. I suppose it is possible that I am not burning as much as the Flex thought I was through simple walking, because I do tend to walk a lot so I suppose my body is used to it and my heart rate doesn't go up all that much. But I found that even after running up 4…

I've found that varying my route and carrying my camera makes a big difference. I'm not very good at it, but I have gotten more into photography as a hobby. It gives me a good excuse to look for interesting subjects along my route. And I've gotten some really good shots.

It really varies by person. I'd consider myself to be in reasonably good shape, but I also consider 3-5 miles a more doable daily goal for me. A 30lb backpack would be almost 30% of my body weight, so I'd never carry anything that heavy. Furthermore, at 5'1", I have short legs, an (almost certainly) shorter stride than…

I've had to change my settings to only count "walk" activities for longer than 30 minutes. It was getting to the point where it was creating a "walk" every time I was walking to the subway, for instance. I don't need to see a dozen activities per day every time I go anywhere.

Yeah, even I use my Fitbit to get a better estimate of my calorie goals than what MFP tells me. I don't track exercise on MFP. I just average my Fitbit TDEE to get a general idea of my range, and set my calorie goal on MFP on that basis.

Yep, it's entirely possible that if you're petite, a bit older, and sedentary, you won't get many extra calories from normal daily activity once you hit maintenance. The reason for this is that, while losing, you probably would have needed to drop below the 1200 calorie floor to truly be at a 250- or 500-calorie daily…

Yeah, there are the itty-bitty little steps that you take when there's ice and snow on the ground. Then there's what I like to refer to as the "Montreal method" of getting around on those really, really icy days, which involves sort of skate-walking without ever lifting your feet off the ground. Or, you could always just…

I tried syncing mine for a couple of weeks, but it was frustrating me to have to meal plan against a moving target. Besides, I use a custom calorie goal and custom macros, which don't work properly with Fitbit sync. So I've opted to keep them unsynced, and to just use the Fitbit to motivate me to move more.

The steps are usually pretty close on these things. The distance may not be, depending on stride length. But you shouldn't see a major discrepancy in terms of steps. If you do, you can file a support ticket with Fitbit.

If it's way, way off, try deleting it and letting Fitbit use the default stride length for a while. Run another set distance on the treadmill and see what it says. If it's pretty close, you can use that, or adjust from there. I find the Fitbit algorithm, though not perfect, does a better job of estimating my stride length…

Hmmmm. 3.5 miles is just over 5 kilometers, right? First of all, doing that in just over 30 minutes is awesome, so way to go! Second of all, I tend to log somewhere around 1000 steps per 10 minutes when I'm walking, and a bit more than that (maybe 1200-1300) when running. I'm also around your height (5'1"). So, yeah, 4800…

BMI is a general guideline. Not a hard-fast rule. If you're healthy and strong, then it shouldn't matter all that much if you're at the higher end of the BMI scale, 'cause really, BMI assumes an average body composition. If you're carrying more muscle and less fat than the average, then you're gonna be healthier than…

If your TDEE (including exercise) averages around 2100, then you could deduct 400-500 calories from that and expect to lose weight at around 0.8-1lb/week. Using that method, you wouldn't eat back exercise calories, though, since those have already been factored into your TDEE.