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I'm going to presume you are using the app? On the dashboard, the number is always positive, but the accompanying word will change: over means you've eaten too much, remaining means you have calories left to consume. At the top of the diary, the number on the right always indicates how many calories you have remaining. A…
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Without more info about you and your weight-loss journey, it's hard to give advice. Depending on the time-line, you could just need to be more patient (stalled for less than a month) or, if it's been more than a month, need to lower your calorie intake/ be more precise in measuring your food intake/ increase your activity…
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You can collect Garmin Connect and MFP, not your heart rate monitor directly. It was a bit tricky if I remember correctly: you need to add Garmin Connect in MFP, but also vice versa add MFP to Garmin Connect.
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There's a bug currently - try using the + sign at the bottom of the app.
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To be able to choose clothes that look nice and fit well, rather than settle for clothes that are simply big enough and don't accentuate 'bad bits' To not become like my mother, severely obese and out of breath at the slightest effort, not only having a bad quality of life herself but not letting my dad enjoy his…
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Thisisn't my own experience since I don't have PCOS, but I've read that a low(er) carb diets can help. PCOS seems to have some correlation with insulin resistance if I remember correctly.
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I'm not sure we'll ever know why you suddenly got that high goal and now a lower one again - a glitch perhaps. But I can tell you that it's good to regularly go back to your goal settings to confirm them (just change a setting and change it back) since MFP doesn't automatically update your calorie goal as you lose weight…
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You go to the settings, then choose Profile and then select Units.
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MFP does not calculate calories based on macros. Calories are a data field on their own, separate from the macro data fields. Potential reasons why things don't add up: Incorrect food database entries (the database is mostly crowdsourced) Rounding of values Fiber falls under carbs in the US and some other countries- an…
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My advice is: more patience! A true plateau is at least 4 weeks/1 menstrual cycle without any weight-loss, anything shorter than that and it could just be 'noise' from water weight fluctuations. It's very common for people to have some quick losses the first few weeks (water weight losses on top of fat loss) and then a…
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Two things were key for me: Counting calories rather than overhauling my diet to 'eat healthy' without any idea of how much I was eating Related to the first point: not overhauling my diet, but rather eating my usual foods in different quantities/proportions and along the way make tweaks to my diet with some calorie…
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Have you compared your TDEE in Garmin Connect with the TDEE received in MFP to make sure it matches? And calculated what your adjusted calorie goal should have been based on your Garmin TDEE and selected weight-loss rate? I've had my own issues with the sync - it doesn't sound like the same problem you're having, but just…
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Day 13 of my trip. I was surprised to see that my food intake was a few hundred calories lower last week than the weeks before, both total and net calories. Not quite maintenance yet, but better than the hundreds above maintenance from before. Although it is a bit of a guessing game with some restaurant dinners thrown in,…
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Well, I'm a chronic procrastinator, so I'm probably not the best source of good advice 😆 I'm most productive when I have a (nearby) deadline and very concrete reasons to get something done. For work I tend to make to do lists to keep track of (the most urgent) tasks, and sometimes block parts of my agenda to make time for…
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Also keep in mind that the food database is crowdsourced (and food labels don't show necessarily show all the nutrients): many database entries area incomplete, especially for micronutrients like vitamins.
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For the same volume, muscle is more heavy than fat (it's more dense). Or to put it another way: if you have two people with the same weight (and height), the person with more muscle and less fat will have smaller measurements than the person with less muscle and more fat.
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First of all, I would say that motivation is a bad basis for actions that need to be done. I doubt many people are motivated to brush their teeth or do their laundry 😉 better to turn it into a habit. Secondly, boring will be in the eye of the beholder, obviously. Some people love routine and others can't stand it. And not…
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Try the + sign at the bottom of the app, as a workaround.
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According to the MFP help pages, a workaround should be to use the + sign at the bottom of the app.
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I'd say active or perhaps even very active. Start with active and try that for amonth or so and then adjust if necessary?
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One trick is to report a food for incorrect nutritional info, check the box 'save to My Foods', make a very small change (a small change in the name should be enough) and the food will be saved to My Foods.
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A few months ago, MFP changed the activity levels - for the same name they include more activity which gives a higher calorie goal.
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Not to dismiss your hard work, but did you measure at home when you had those high reading at the doctors? I would never agree to BP meds unless I had some elevated home BP readings to go along with those at the doctor's. Last time I went to the doctor, my BP was 160/90 and at home I rarely reach 110/70, as low as 90/60…
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Nope, sounds like a glitch or perhaps you accidentally changed a setting? I would go through the goal setup again, making sure your personal stats, activity level etc are correct.
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One week into my holiday/road trip in France and so far I've managed to improve my logging consistency. Still eating above maintenance but sort of under control since I'm preparing most of my own meals - indulging a bit too much for the calories my walks and hikes have been giving me (44km so far). Digestive issues still…
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I really recommend checking against the label, 30gr of fat sounds like a crazy amount of fat for a protein shake, it's more likely to be 3gr of fat 🙂
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Think of your goals for fat subtypes as nutritional goals, just like vitamins, minerals,... whereas fat (total), carbs and protein and carbs are macros. Your macro goals are calculated based on total fat versus protein versus carbs, so the individual types of fat aren't taken into account. Also, your fat count is not the…
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It's part of the free version.
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Haven't really lost any weight: do you mean very little, or none at all? weight-loss expectations can be unrealistic, so it would be useful to have more details: precise weight-loss, your personal stats, what/ how much you're eating...
