Amerek412 Member

Do not get one if you plan on getting pregnant ever. Please trust me on that lol.

Starting Weight: 123.0 (July 3) Goal Weight by Labor Day (Sept 7): 117 (this would be 2lbs from my ultimate goal weight!!) Friday, July 10: 123.0 Friday, July 17: Friday, July 24: Friday, July 31: Friday, August 7: Friday, August 14: Friday, August 21: Friday, August 28: Friday, September 4: Labor Day: Not surprised since…

I also did the July 4 challenge and reached my goal, I'm in for this one too! Saw this late but ill still use my weight from Friday as my starting weight so I can do the Friday weigh-ins Starting Weight: 123.0 (July 3) Goal Weight by Labor Day (Sept 7): 117 (this would be 2lbs from my ultimate goal weight!!) Friday, July…

Starting Weight: 127.4 July 4th Goal: 123.4 Friday, June 5th: 127.2 Friday, June 12th: 126.6 Friday, June 19th: 125.2 Friday, June 26th: 123.4 Friday, July 3rd: 123.0 Woo-hoo I did it!!

Starting Weight: 127.4 July 4th Goal: 123.4 Friday, June 5th: 127.2 Friday, June 12th: 126.6 Friday, June 19th: 125.2 Friday, June 26th: 123.4 Friday, July 3rd: Adding my entry from last week late sine the community tab hasn't been loading on the app for me for a few days. But I hit my goal a week early!! I'm honestly not…

Starting Weight: 127.4 July 4th Goal: 123.4 Friday, June 5th: 127.2 Friday, June 12th: 126.6 Friday, June 19th: 125.2 Friday, June 26th: Friday, July 3rd:

Forgot to post yesterday... Starting Weight: 127.4 July 4th Goal: 123.4 Friday, June 5th: 127.2 Friday, June 12th: 126.6 Friday, June 19th: Friday, June 26th: Friday, July 3rd: May need to re-evaluate my goal next week lol not sure if I can manage 3.2lbs in 3 weeks. I'm exercising a TON (not all purposeful..just a lot more…

Starting a week late, but specifically came to look for one of these threads since I use to really like them and knew 4th of July was coming up! Current Weight: 127.4 July 4th Goal: 123.4 Friday, June 5th: Friday, June 12th: Friday, June 19th: Friday, June 26th: Friday, July 3rd:

Fitbit already counts those calories burned when you sync it to MFP. So if you were to log your cardio workout separately into MFP in addition to syncing your steps with fitbit, you be double counting those calories burned

I've always wanted to join these but always discover them too late! Ultimate start weight: 133.6 Current weight: 130.0 Challenge goal weight: 125 Ultimate goal weight: 115 9/20 9/27 10/4 10/11 10/18 10/25 10/31

You haven't yet done enough "extra" daily activity to earn any extra calories. There is an assumed amount of daily activity that is already taken into account when MFP gives you a calorie goal. If you exceed the assumed amount of daily activity, then it'll give you extra calories. The amount of daily activity that you need…

Thank you everyone so much!! Will definitely try all your suggestions to see if that helps. I do keep my feet about shoulder width apart so I will try a wider stance as well.

Yesss do it!! Honestly I've only had it a few weeks but there are plenty of times where I just really don't feel like doing it, but then I realize it's right there, I'm sitting here anyway, I might at well. I tell myself to at least do it for 5 min, and by then I'm in the groove and do it mindlessly.

I'm 5'2 and nowhere near about to hit my desk. I honestly think you wouldn't have a problem because you can always position it further from you so you don't have to have your knees bent at a 90 degree angle, and you'd still get good use of it. There is also hardly any up and down motion to your legs as the eliptical favors…

I also considered that the calories burned could match and Fitbit was just that good lol but alas, I also tried making note of my cals at a zero hour, then once cubii synced at the half hour the difference was 54 calories, though cubii was reporting 60 (which should have been on top of my BMR so it should have gone up by…

Wanted to give an update for those interested now that I've been using it for a little while. Tl;Dr: Although I'm somewhat disappointed in the Bluetooth related functionality (which was the main reason I wanted this very expensive one over much cheaper options), it preforms very well in the actual use of it and I highly…

I would say yes, you are double dipping. Assuming you have auto-detect turned on for your Fitbit, it will automatically recognize your runs and record on your Fitbit app. And even if you don't have that turned on, your Fitbit is always going to record your steps for your runs and give you extra calories for that. I assume…

I don't agree that she was being brave, to me it just sounds like an immature teenager doing something intentionally wrong/harmful just to make their parents mad. She might have been thinking she was making a point by going against society's "shallow" views of body weight, but the only person she's sticking it to is…

You forgot about the emphasis on how it's a SPECIFIC diet plan catered to YOUR PERSONAL BODY TYPE. lol

I thing that people say on here that I find helpful is to "eat what you log, not log what you eat". Meaning it's best to plan what you eat to ensure you are eating within your calorie goal, rather than winging it only to find you allowed yourself to go way over. Around mid-day, think about a nice treat your craving that…

Haha I can see it now... "OMG you look amazing! How'd you lose all that weight???" "Thank you! I followed the Hypocaloric diet" "Wow, I haven't heard of that one! Sounds great how does it work???" "It's so simple, you just eat fewer calories than you burn, every day, for an extended period of time" "Oh...."

Yup, I lift weights 4 nights a week, 2 nights upper body 2 nights lower

Thanks to you both, this is what I was hoping for! I wasn't expecting it to provide any actual intentional exercise, just a way to raise my overall calorie expenditure throughout the day since currently, 1200 cals isn't cutting it lol

To the bolded part, I think it could be somewhat more reliable as it's not the Fitbit itself that would count the steps, but the eliptical itself as it's Bluetooth capable with its own dedicated app which then syncs to Fitbit to count as steps. As to your comments on Fitbit itself, I don't think the majority of Fitbit…

I don't think it's a good idea to hold your breath during your entire rep. I've read, and in my own experience found, it's best to breath in during the "set up", and out during the strain. So squatting for example, you breath in during the bend down, and breath out during the push up. Or for curls, breath in while…

Yeah fair point!

I definitely plan to take the calorie burns with a grain of salt. That being said I would think it could be given more credit than to call it totally non-weight bearing since it does provide resistance settings which cause you to actively push the pedals, rather than passively going through the eliptical motion with your…

If you set your daily activity level to anything higher than sedentary, MFP will give you extra calories in your daily goal because it assumes you are burning more calories throughout the day. However, if your ACTUAL daily activity, as reported by your Fitbit steps, isn't accounting for the activity level you have set,…

I have the alta HR and wasn't aware there was such a button. It automatically detects when I begin sleep and when I wake up. Though, it will sometimes begin sleep when I am just laying very still on the couch watching TV or on my phone before bed, and not actually sleeping yet. But the wake up time is typically pretty spot…

I have you EXACT stat's! I increase my daily activity so I can eat a little more than 1200 cals, and I also don't eat until the afternoon since I prefer to eat more later in the day. It works for me. I walk for an hour during my lunch break and get around 12000-15000 steps per day, and usually eat more like 1400-1500 cals…