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  • The treadmill readout will give you the TOTAL calories you burned during the time. The Fitbit adjustment is the difference between what you would have burned without exercise (which is included in your NEAT) and the total exercise calories.
  • I’ve only been once since they moved - I liked the old place better!
  • I guess I did take away that the main woman in the story - posing on the barstool & creating an app - was kind of proud, probably to promote the app. If I’m being honest (and not politically correct), that did bother me. I was 90 lbs heavier and things like needing a seat belt extender on a plane and being in pain doing…
  • Don’t forget to recalculate your calories at your new weight to make sure your goal is correct now that you’re using your scale. 2100 to lose 1 lb a week at 207 sounds a little high. I think when I started at 267, 1 lb a week for me was more like 1750 - but I might be a lot older lol. Keep going - you’re doing great!
  • Nope just link it with MFP although you might want to ask some Apple Watch users for advice - I’ve seen some posts taking about how the syncing isn’t quite as straightforward as Fitbit’s
  • Well it does sound like you are a lot faster than me - plus I’m 60 lol Try eating back 1/2 and see how you do or get a Fitbit and see what it tells you after a few weeks.
  • Yes and I haven’t gotten it back down in the 3 years I’ve been losing. Dr isn’t too concerned since my ratio is still good, but I previously always had pretty 180-ish even when I was over 250 lbs and now it’s over 200 for the first time. I guess aging might be part of it too.
  • Right but that’s going to give you the entire amount of calories you burned in that hour, not just the amount extra you burned during the class. For instance, the OTF tracker said I burned 444 for Monday’s workout. But my MFP calorie adjustment from my Fitbit was more like 300.
  • That seems high even for OTF. How are you calculating that? I usually get about a 350 bump at the most. Remember, exercise calories are a factor over what you would have normally burned just doing normal activity during that hour, otherwise you are double counting. A fitness tracker would be a good idea.
  • As Dr. Now says - if you’re not losing, you’re gaining so you have to decide which way to go.
  • The best revenge will be to prove them wrong - let that help to motivate you!
  • Thanks for this! I don’t get a lot of pain but I am starting to train for a 10K. Last year I did hurt my knee and the ortho did say I have patella issues & crooked knee caps or something like that. Anyway I’m excited to see if I can feel the difference!
  • If you do enter an activity in MFP because it’s not a Fitbit measured activity (like water aerobics), be sure to enter the correct start time and minutes. That way, it will override any Fitbit activity for that time and won’t double count it.
  • How sweet! I just ordered that one from Williams Sonoma to replace my 4 year old smaller version. 20% promo so saved a little.
  • Yes Whitney has many more problems than her weight and is no way capable of raising a child. My take on the overall issue is not not only the health and ability to be active with a child, but also that the obese parent-to-be may not have proper knowledge of nutrition and activity needs and would pass along their “bad”…
  • What is bad and unhealthy about a latte? A cup of 1% milk and coffee is 100 calories and my calcium for the day plus some protein. Same with a 1/2 cup portion of ice cream - again, calcium & protein maybe 200 cals. Still managed to lose 90+ lbs enjoying them - not to mention “gasp” pizza.
  • Because fasting leads to binging...
  • I think she was being facetious- I thought it was pretty funny
  • Thanks for a voice of reason!
  • That phrase really resonated with me when I first saw it here on MFP 90+ lbs ago and I thought it was inspirational. Sorry if you don’t find it such. As for positive reinforcement, I think you got a lot of good info on how to make weighing & logging easier and people do want to help!
  • Same here - I was 267 at 5’5” - obese class 3 - 4 years ago. I don’t think people are posting here to shame anyone about using weight loss drugs. Instead, I think we want to share that many of us have used them but had side effects and realized you can’t use them long term to reach your ultimate goals. I hope it also shows…
  • Both of my doctors over the past 10 years were adamantly opposed. I also saw how it took my mother forever to stop once she started in her 50’s. I made it through not too terribly - just about 5 years of night sweats. However when I briefly reconnected with my ex, she was ok with estrogen cream for dryness but I haven’t…
  • Weighing & logging is “hard”? Being overweight is hard. Choose your hard.
  • So taking weight loss drugs helped you quit something that has 0 calories - don’t quite see the benefit there... Edited to add: former phentermine user - also gained back 40 lbs lost and 80 more.
  • Can you only do it if you are a “Mama”!
  • How much had you lost to get to goal? If it was more than 6 lbs, then you hardly need to start over. That kind of a gain (especially after surgery) is part of what maintenance is about. No starting over, just keeping going.
  • I’m with you - also ripped jeans...
  • Maybe don’t call it “dieting”? Can you work with your therapist to determine what a healthy weight range would be for you and then tell her you want eat the right amount of calories necessary to maintain a healthy weight by tracking your food jnstake?
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