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I believe the number a the scale isn't the best indicator of your ideal. You BP, cholesterol ratio, triglycerides, glucose, a1c numbers are much better indicators if your body is happy with your overall choices than the scale.

I agreed with all the comments about doing the same thing you did to lose the weight. If good eating habits are second nature go solo but it not use tools to take action when stray too far. Also the macros on this site are based on sound traditional nutrition. Let face it the average person on this site has no medical…

I've continued to log my food and use a Fitbit to track my exercise. Some choose to calculate their TDEE. I use MFPs calorie and adjust daily based on my Fitbit adjustment. I have negative calories on so if I am exceptionally lazy or sick that shows on my burn too. Whether you eat back your exercise calories or not depends…

Sedentary for me is 1570 for me, I have negative calories till I get going, how many steps it takes to overcome the negative depends how vigorous the steps are. All steps are not equal. I get at least 10K steps a day, strength train 3 times a week and do cardio most days. Depend how hard I hit these things 1800-2200…

I know you are worrying about gaining but if you don't start trust the program that got you here to keep you here you will continue to lose and that will eventually be a problem too.

Good luck. If you are new to exercise, walking is a great place to start. Get a step tracker a set a goal you can achieve and work up from there.

I think that is personal preference. I think a lot of people have the consistent activity everyday prefer to pick the activity level selected that aligns to that because they hate to see the consistent positive adjustments. Others who perhaps are more active on some days than others may want to set it lower so they can eat…

I think Sport is a catch all it they can't tell what you are doing. Last that came in I was shoveling snow and ice. A workout but not much fun... FYI you can edit the name to something that make more sense after in comes in. That is what I do with mine.

Yes it is an auto Detect feature they rolled out not too long ago so if you don't turn on exercise mode it automatically captures something if do it at least a certain number of minutes. It is configurable from the web app.

I've gotten 40000 twice a different vacations on all day hike in the mountains. My stride was probably shorter due to elevation gains but not gaming it. 10000 to 15000 are more typical when I have to work. I do believe in rest days so that isn't my average.

My husband had excellent results in lowering his blood pressure and losing weight.

Ditto, Ive Ditto, I use this method and it works well for me. I also agree it is personal preference.

Yes I wish when you move to maintenance that you could enter a weigh range rather than a weight.

I'm in the middle of my BMI and I am fine with that. Trying to be better this year in including strength training consistently which may end up driving it up, we shall see.

The whole point of logging is to learn where the trade offs are. There are days when I indulge but days where I look at some foods and decide they are not worth the set back and other days where I'll do extra exercise so a particular food fits in. More often than not the dense food is not worth it. Finding the food that…

I agree with the healthy fat comment. My husband and I went thru a period where we went super clean but didn't purposely add good fats back in, found we were hungrier the days our fat macros were off... Protein being off can cause it too, but we my carbs are consistently out of balance over then I'm way more likely to get…

I'm a daily weigher but don't log it often in maintenance. Last logged till right before Thankgiving. Daily swing can be amazingly large and no longer wigs me out like they used to. I started with an upper and lower limit but soon realized I only cared about the upper limit. I assume this is petty common for anyone who…

Very active? Kids tire you out but I seriously doubt that a Fitbit would register any active minutes over a school day... I have to get in 10K steps at 4.5mph or higher to move into that category.. Yes I had very active kids when they were young and had to work in me active time. Kid active isn't adult active...

Congrats on achieving you goal.

Yeah weird, I posted something on the Fitbit help forum, we'll see. It is a new feature so may have some kinks to work out.

No it is not a exaggerated arm swing, nor is it horizontally wider than when I walk a non exercise pace. The arms just swing in the same speed as my legs.

I swing my arm in rhythm with my legs. Same motion when I go slow...

Interesting, I turned elliptical back on last night, it looks like walk kicks in during my warm up and it kicks over to elliptical once I get up to speed. No idea if it is my speed or my heart rate that kicks it into the misclassification.

I'm able to reclassify it so if it comes down as elliptical I can change it to something else if that it appropriate. The email that went out on this feature showed you how to do this on the web, android, iPhone...

Not an odd gait, but I do walk noticeably faster than the average. 4mph is my warm up and cool down pace anything slower is tortuous... Typically go 4.5mph or faster when not walking with others. Can go up to 5mph without breaking in to a jog.

No different than what you did to get here except your goal is now not to gain or lose (stay within a range). If you think 'yeah, no more dieting' you'll probably fail to old bad habits and go back to where you were. If you know your new habits are your go forward habits then you don't need mfp. If you want an…

50, female, most consistent with cardio. I know I should strength train but don't care much for it so it always feels like a chore so not very consistent about it. Most active Spring through Fall. I find winter a bit of a chore to find actives I'll do consistently when I tend to be cold no matter how hard I work out...

Obviously you haven't noticed the sheer number of people on this sight that set goals that are below healthy weight all because of perceived fat, especially at this area. You have to wonder ut someone so focused on one spot has reasonable expectations....

I do the same thing and it works for me. Yes I turned negative calories on.

Too many people think you can get rid if the belly with diet alone. To get buff it requires exercise --cardio and strength training in addition to a healthy diet. Most aren't willing to give up what it takes to get there.