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I have a second hand fitbit one so it wasn't very expensive. It really helped when I was starting out improving my fitness and healthy eating as it showed me how little I was moving. Trying to reach the targets I set myself for step count and for stairs climbed really helped motivate me. Now a few years in its nice to have…
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Just by way of an example doing 9000 steps when I first started gave me 1300 exercise calories. When it had sorted itself out it was more like 250 or 300 ish calories depending upon the effort I was making. It would have genuinely been a little higher when I first started as I was more unfit and a bit heavier but nowhere…
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When I first started out and linked my fitbit to MFP it gave me a huge amount of exercise calories. From experimenting with eating back some or not eating them back and seeing how my weight loss changed I reached the conclusion that the calories it was stating were much more than a 50% overestimate. After a few months the…
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I have lived in hotel rooms for a few years when commuting away to work. Dried couscous was a good staple. You can buy flavoured packets or by plain and add to them. On its own it is a bit dull but you can add all sorts of ingredients to increase it's taste. I used to take a small pot containing lemon juice chopped…
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Also bear in mind that when you measure yourself you are measuring your circumference. In inch increase to your circumference roughly equates (we are generally not perfect circles) to an increase in diameter I.e. how wide we are side to side or deep we are front to back of about 1/3 of an inch. So if we were perfect…
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The general recommendation is to exhale deeply when the foot on the opposite side to the stitch hits the ground. I have found exhaling deeply and holding that exhalation for a beat helps me - I have never thought to check which step I was doing that on though :-) Try and make your breathing even and dont take shallow…
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I agree with the others. Go slow then go even slower. What helps for me is to go slow enough I can talk easily but not sing. Sometimes it feels as if I am jogging on the spot and I am often running slower than I can walk (and can be overtaken by pedestrians walking on occasions). I find I run out off energy on those runs…
