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Thank you for your input!!

Thank you for your helpful reply! I will keep a close eye on the trend overtime. Mathematical maintenance is a new frontier for me.

Thank you for your helpful advice Ann! Your posts are very insightful and inspiring!

Excellent advice! Thank you!

Thank you so much for your encouragement and sharing what you do to maintain!

A question- If I mostly do walking/jogging based exercise(I do occasional bodyweight exercises as well), do I set my activity level to "Not Very Active", enable negative calorie adjustments and let Fitbit feed the step count into MFP? Will this give me a good general idea of my TDEE?

Tracking carefully over a month or so and calculating in weight gain/loss (pounds x 3500 = approximate cals) ought to be close enough for a decent evaluation, without eating the same daily.[/quote] Excellent advice! Thank you!

Thank you for sharing your experience. I need to do a fair test (keeping calories eaten more or less the same) to see my weight trend over the span of several weeks and not just a week or two. Do you find it beneficial to link your Fitbit with MFP or do you just use Fitbit's numbers?

Do you find Fitbit's calories burned accurate? I own a Zip. I average 12-14,000 steps/day. It says I burn 1900-2000. Should I trust that number?

What source do you use to estimate your TDEE? I am 5'5" and 115-117 lbs. I average 12-14,000 steps a day. I do occasional squats and push-ups here and there... nothing too strenuous. My basic step counter shows that I burn 1900-2000. Should I trust that number?