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Exactly @senecarr ! I think she is not living in today's world. @auddii , I know. She just came in and blew up at me about it again, and it became this big argument, saying how uncomfortable it is for her to go anywhere with me with such "conflict". I said I know - it is - all I did was put a piece of gum in my mouth and…

JodieCabrera: How much are you eating now? How did you figure that number? Are you measuring and tracking your food? To be totally honest if someone's weight is going up usually their calorie intake is too high.

Aaaaanyway - So today I wore my FitBit One and my Garmin 910XT for a 7.5ish mile run. The Garmin 910XT by heart rate said I burned 636 calories. FitBit bombed out - I did have it set to record the interval of the run, but afterwards when I synced it with my phone, probably because I hadn't used it in a while, it reset all…

Yirara, I am not saying I fit into the entire definition of somatypes but I do feel they have some accuracy as far as the predominance of slow/fast twitch muscle fibers and athletics. Look at Arnold Schwarzenegger versus elite marathoner Meb Keflezighi, as an example. So you're telling me that they and everyone else has…

Bahahaha I just logged onto FitBit to check it out, I forgot that it is connected to MFP because I use an Aria scale. FitBit is set to a 1.5 lb per week loss, yet I ran 9 miles today and it said I should have eaten just 1350 calories. BAHHHH yep it's going to need some work... My calculation of my TDEE today put me at…

I have a FitBit One. I did get a Surge, thinking the calorie calculations would be better, but it was almost the same (yes, I did go through a few days where I wore THREE trackers - tried a Xiaomi MiBand too LOL). With the FitBit... I lost weight, sure, but like literally 5 lbs in 4-5 days and I would be like AAAAAAHHHHH…

editorgrrl, I at one time was very sick with illnesses doctors told me I'd never get over. I did get over them, and also lost the 50 lbs the whole experience caused me to gain as well. So I'm not getting snarky, but I do know my body and weight loss, in addition to having been a former trainer as well as coaching others to…

editorgrrrl... I just did read the link, it's kind of hilarious because how is that person not saying EXACTLY what I have said I am doing. 1% of bodyfat per week? Check a couple of posts back where I said I'm doing just that... for me that would be 1.4 lbs per week LOL. TDEE?? Again check back, I am already calculating…

Yarwell, thank you! I need to leave to coach a run session but will check this out when I return!

ravenstar I know right?!?! I had my BMR tested because I was using a FitBit and was starving all the time. My metabolism is a bit faster than average and the FitBit formula based on age, weight etc was too low for me. Then here the calories output is too high. So people need to know what works for them. I keep historical…

Oh btw to have a 3,000 calorie day would only be a 13 mile run for me. That is if I were sedentary the rest of the day. Sometimes I do home renovation projects too, which then obviously would add even more, as that is definitely not sedentary LOL.

@Charlie I am normally a well-conditioned athlete who was injured. So being back into my sport I am going to gain back the lean mass that I lost (thank goodness). I am also in between an ecto-mesomorph, if you are familiar with that, meaning I can gain mass easier than average. My body is really just going back to it's…

StaciMarie1974 that is a great accomplishment for you. I agree 100% with goal-setting, the clearer the better - deadlines make things concrete. Whatever motivates you the most - GO FOR IT !

gothicfires, yes, I know this, as I posted I run 6-10 miles a day so the deficit is not a problem for me, even with that counted in I am never eating less than 1200 calories per day, in fact most days I am eating much more, closer to 1800-2000++. If you look at it in percentages as well, someone who burns say 3,000…

StaciMarie1974 thank you, I calculate my TDEE daily, because it changes so often. Some days I can burn just a few hundred calories in training and then others I can burn a couple thousand. You can see if I averaged that out... some days I'd be way overeating other days starving... LOL I am targeting 1.5 but it may not be…

That's a good idea SueinAZ thank you. Losing 1.5 lbs per week is not "too fast." Especially for an active person who can afford the calories to burn. I have lost 4.5 lbs so far. This is actually 5.5 lbs of fat lost and 1.5 lbs of lean mass GAINED through this and calorie cycling. I am only in this position as I was sick…

Ok I figured it out for anyone with the same issue. On the days I exercise, MFP is off of my desired deficit of 750 by a constant number every day - 276. This is because the difference between what I actually burn when I don't exercise - 1674 - and what MFP gives me when I'm sedentary - 1200 - is 476 calories. So when it…

Really my daily burn is so high I can afford that deficit. As an example today I burned around 2,724 calories. A 750 calorie deficit would put me at around 1,974 calories per day. A person really isn't supposed to eat below 1200-1600 calories a day because it is difficult to get enough nutrients at that level. But at…

Yes, that's what I mean, but say I burn enough calories in exercise to total 1950 calories, MyFitnessPal does not say to eat 1200. It just adds the exercise calories to 1200 and tells me to eat that. In actuality my total daily burn without exercise would be my BMR of 1395 * 1.2 to account for the sedentary activity level…

It doesn't matter for weight loss, but as an athlete I tend to eat more around my main workout, which is normally in the morning.

Sydking, if it really is 73 calories in each pitcher I make, and I drink two of those a day, that is about 150 calories - per day - which I am currently counting as zero. So yes, it would make a difference. 150 calories x 7 would be 1,050 calories per week, or about 10 miles of running. I don't know about anyone else but I…

GAHHHH that category gives 73 calories for 1.5 cups. But there actually is a Real Lemon Lemon juice in there, and when I put 1.5 servings of 1 cup, it says zero calories!!! GAHHHH!?!?!

Ok, I will use that. I normally drink the whole pitcher of lemonade (38 oz, with 12 oz being the lemon juice). Thanks!