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Great work! Congratulations :)

Good discussion, thank you all.

Please take care with such sudden weight loss! Don't expect to stay on that trajectory...2lb/week is about the fastest average weight loss you should see. But well done! Great progress

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/profile/f03b55b9-9996-4c7f-a2f0-584dc2c3a214 I just joined the MyFitnessPalBuds group, looks like some fun challenges.

This is me: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/profile/f03b55b9-9996-4c7f-a2f0-584dc2c3a214 I'm mainly into cycling endurance distances in summer, indoor cycling with TrainerRoad in the winter. Also into Crossfit. I'm a 61 year old male, would welcome connections on Garmin Connect or MFP for motivation, accountability and…

How do I add my name to the list? Is just replying to this post enough?

Congratulations, keep at it!

I agree with all the advice you're been given, but also, consider an electric bike. I can hear the true believers groaning already, but they are very good, especially if you are not yet fit enough to tackle the local hills, no matter what the gearing. Look at 'electric assist' bikes, where the power only comes in to…

I turn 60 next month and have been losing weight and getting fitter all year in preparation. I started the year at 217lb, am now 187 lb, so lost 30 lb and reckon I still have another 30 to do. As I'm 5'7" tall, my BMI is at the high end of the overweight zone, although I used to be well into the obese zone (BMI of ~35!).…

I have a FitBit Blaze, totally recommend it for use with MTF. Also use the FitBit dashboard, and I have a FitBit Aria2 Wi-Fi scale to make weighing in every day easy. Makes for a great combo.

Patience...I've seen these things come and go. It will get resolved soon.

I totally rate walking as an exercise form. It's cheap and easy to do. Difficult to make much money coaching people to walk, however :) These days people put so much effort into HIIT etc because they get the same energy expenditure in a shorter time, and I get that. But the energy taken to climb a hill is the same whether…

I've been using MFP and Fitbit since January this year and have only had two interruptions. One was when MFP was responding to their data breach and a bunch of things stopped working, and the other was yesterday's delay in getting data to sync. I'm very pleased with the sync between the two. That said, I do wonder about…

Hey Newshell-Mom, I agree with Kinmy's advice. Weight loss isn't magic, it's just calories in should be less than calories out to lose weight. I think the default that MFP recommends is a great place to start. Fire that consultant! Maybe ask your doctor for his/her advice on nutrition if you want an expert? Best of luck on…

Congratulations! I hit 60 this year and am trying to lose 50 lb this year. Here's to grey power!

You'll have to do the adjustment manually until it gets fixed. It's amazing how used to the 'it just works' nature of MFP I am. Hopefully we'll get back to that soon.

I'm also having trouble logging foods. I guess MFP is having a meltdown.

Good to know I'm not the only one. I'm sure they'll sort it out...

Let me explain a bit better what I'm thinking. I have a ~4 mile trail near where I Iive. If I walk my dog, it takes ~1 hour and I'm in the 'fat burn zone' for the whole trip. If I jog it takes say 40 mins and I'm in the cardio zone. If I use a bike it's maybe 20 mins and I'm in Cardio/peak. It's the same total distance and…

59 so we can only be in touch for ~6 more months :(

Same logic would apply to beer as well :) Anyone know if fully brewed beer is more or less calorific than its ingredients?

I don't think the fermenting of the dough will modify the calories significantly, though it would be good to test that theory. The yeast itself doesn't have many calories, and the fermenting just produces CO2 to aerate the dough. Without having actually done the experiment, my belief is that there will be no significant…

I thought about this some more and your legs are definitely pushing your weight plus whatever the resistance of the machine is, so of course it should be weight adjusted. Silly me!

Hi Ann, Thanks for that. I guess the Concept 2 should know exactly how many calories you spend, if it knows the damping factor and it definitely knows how hard you're pulling on the cable. You're own weight should not matter, should it, as you're just sliding and your weight isn't doing the work? - Mark

Hey Duck_Puddle, thanks for the reply. If it's within 10% I'll just stick with it :) But if, as you say, I can do a total of 12 minutes of intervals on an airbike and be completely spent and burn like 17 calories - or run for 2 hours and still have gas in the tank and burn 1000 calories then shouldn't we just do whatever…

Maybe I should give some more info: I just took my dogs for a walk, it was one hour, 5000 steps and Fitbit computes 449 calories. Yesterday I did a warmup for 3 mins, then two 2k rows on the Concept 2 with 5 mins rest between. Fitbit says I did 3000 steps for 461 calories. So it's definitely accounting for my increased…

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