Beaudom91 Member

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I've never "failed". I lost the weight 10 years ago and gained some of it back do to pregnancy and lost that weight both Times

I LOVE my fitbit! I don't take too much notice pf the calorie burn side of it, since that can be off... but I find it really motivating to stay active. It keeps me accountable a pushes me to keep challenging myself

My husband is "naturally thin" he only eats one meal a day, that's his natural appetite. He eats mostly junk food but when I sat down and calculated the calories they were within maintenance for a 6ft man. He's also very active, I bought his a fitbit for xmass and he clocks 20 000 steps most days without even trying. He's…

Infact, now I think about it. Most things are low cal of you follow the actual serving sizes

And in a final note. This has been the best post I have ever read on here! Whipped cream, here I come!

Oh and icecream. Only 100cals per serving and so don't buy the low sugar kind either... just regular icecream in all kinds of flavors. Enjoying orange chocolate chip right now

Chicken! Especially chicken breast... and for all that protein! I eat it everyday, sometimes twice a day now

As above said, make sure you're logging everything as accurately as possible. Weigh all solids and measure all liquids. Beware of database entries as many are way off the mark, so always best to double check or go for the ones with the green tick. When I first started losing weight it took a whole month for the scales to…

I think fitbit works by including the calories you burn simply by being alive and breathing as part of your daily calorie burn, which is not represented in that way on MFP. So a whole chunk of those burned calories are already accounted for in your MFP daily calorie allowance rather than calories that need to be eaten back

I'm afaid that gaining muscle and losing fat don't go hand in hand. You need a surplus of calories and lots of protein to gain muscle, as well as the right workouts of course. Even professional body builders will gain fat while they build muscle (it's called bulking), it's just how the body works. The faster you lose…

2 pounds a week might be a bit of a stretch if you don't have much to lose. As for eating back the calories, be aware that the numbers given by fitbit are a bit over blown most of the time. A lot of people on here will only eat back about half of theirs to be safe. Personally I eat at my matience amounts then create a…

It's really not very much, I am 5ft4in and 127 pounds and losing steadily on 1625 calories a day

I go by the 80% 20% rule for a balanced diet (but a balanced diet strictly isn't necessary for weight loss). So if 80% of the food you eat is healthy, unprocessed/ low processed fruit, veges, nuts, whole grains and dairy products then 20% of your diet can be treat food without it effecting your overall nutrition. There is…

It took a month before the scale started to move for me, after that I began losing in a predictable pattern of stalls and drops which is totally normal. I didn't lose the predictided amount each week but across the course of the month I'd end up about where I was supposed to be.

Stationary bike, which i know fitbit doesn't have a mode for but the fitbit people claim the general work out mode is suppose to be reasonably accurate

Yeah I know bpm doesn't have much to do with it bit fitbit seems to think it does which is why I was surprised. I was on average 10km faster than yesterday

Just adding, I know both fitbit and the machines are not totally accurate and my real burn is somewhere in between the two numbers, but I've had my fitbit 3 weeks and up until the last week it has more or less been bang on with my machine, only slightly more conservative

I was 55 pounds heavier at the end of both my pregnancies I started each pregnacy at 120 pounds, however I had big babies (two 10 pounders) big placentas, polyhydromnosis (excessive amounts of amniotic fluid), I was measuring full term at only 30 weeks and it was all in the bump. I also started to develop a lot of swelling…

Turns out I lost weight dispite being on a 5 day holiday away from home and not logging, no deliberate excercise and about 8000 less steps than normal basically on a diet break. Pretty pleased with that and I've had no trouble going back to logging, a deficit and working out since I got back home

That if you eat standing up it makes you fat, if you eat sitting down you will lose weight

I did but she really wasn't much help. I pretty much just got a "sucks to be you" response

My understanding from the research done into fitbit and other fitness trackers or that they are more or less reasonably accurate for heart rate but pretty far off the mark for calories at times

I also have the charge2 and it's massivly playing up for me right now. Not logging steps, or tracking exercise ect

I've just been adding my step calories to MFP manually based on the amount I was given for the same amount of steps from fitbit previously. Something is definatly up with fitbit calories right now. It used to estimate my workout calories to be almost identical to the amount my actual work out machine gives me but since…

For starters what are you basing that number on? Fitness trackers and calorie burn meters on machines are well known to be overblown. What most people do is start out assuming that you're only actually burning half that amount and then slowly increasing how much you eat back until your weightless is at the desired rate. In…

I just eat what I've always eaten, if I feel like a certain food, I eat it. It's just a matter of working it into my calories for the day to maintain a deficit.

Eek my 1yr old loves dog kibble, we have to keep it stored up high or she will eat it by the handful! My niece was all about the cat kibble when she was a toddler. My husband once told me he ate dog food all the time as a kid because he'd get hungry between meals but my MIL had a no snacking rule

I think it depends on what you are trying to achieve. If you're trying to change a lifetime or years of bad habits and want to maximise your chances of keeping the weight off long term then slow is generally better. If you've spent your life at a healthy weight and are losing weight after a short term weight gain, and are…