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These are such great ideas. I love the community here and appreciate all the stories you've shared. I switched out a couple of cardio days with cize, a dance workout. It's much more fun. Definitely look forward to it more. I think I also just might try an audiobook with longer walks to keep active on non lift days.…

Thank you for all these ideas. I think I'm going to be much more gentle on myself and just focus on logging something on a cardio day rather than spending all day dreading it.

This is really inspiring! Thank you for this! I've always wanted to try Zumba. Plus I think that maybe part of the problem is ive been going for 60 minutes and I need to start smaller. 20-30 min would be much more sustainable for me.

I've seen weights mentioned a couple of times now. In case you're unfamiliar, P90X has three very weight-focused days on the major muscle groups. So I'm already doing some decent lifting, albeit with barbells and pull-ups instead of a bar. I'm only referring to how to sustain cardio on the three "non-weight" days, which I…

Thank you for this message! It's definitely the tedium. I think I lack the mental strength/tenacity for running. I used to be a very regular hiker/backpacker but I moved to a city where that's much harder to access. Now cardio feels like a chore and I have trouble zoning out or even getting myself excited in some way.…

I'd like to join! How does it work?

First of all, good for you because Barre classes kick my butt. I would think you'd want to find a calories-burned estimate from an online calculator and enter the duration as an exercise you create on mfp. You'd enter it as a cardio exercise to do this. This is what I do with HIIT workouts and P90x workouts.

I am not a strict vegetarian/vegan, though I've had a vegan diet for several months at a time. There are two supplements I highly recommend: iron and a calcium, magnesium, zinc combo. Sometimes vitamin D is also important for your calcium absorption. I take those 3 daily. Iron is difficult to get from vegan/veggie diet. I…

I didn't know you could log your workouts there, aside from tracking exercise. But I like the sound of this! I just have to figure out how to do it lol.

Just to clarify, my overall calorie allotment did decrease to 1200, but my overall calories remaining increased when switching to sedentary because, as @kaylajane11 said, I get added calories around ~2500. This works for me since I start the day with a lengthy HIIT session, but have an otherwise sedentary day. I'll try to…

That's true in mfp alone. But my understanding from the suggestion (and the result I got) is it changes how Fitbit makes adjustments to your mfp diary.

Changing my mfp setting to sedentary just boosted my remaining calories from ~450 to 917 which is more than enough to survive the rest of my at-the-desk day! I'm not going to eat all of those, but that's definitely the difference between making it to dinner with a snack and passing out. It seems like dropping my weight…

I had no idea about the time of day thing with manual entries vs the Fitbit data. This is very helpful! Thank you.