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Wanted to circle back on this and say thanks to all those who commented and helped. I went back through all my numbers and (assuming Garmin Vivoactive is "correct" for exercise calories), I was under-estimating my food by a whopping 25%. So I worked an "adjustment factor" into my spreadsheet and for Dec and Jan so far it…
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I remember keeping a log of my resting heart rate every morning for 2 years when I raced bikes ... there was no such thing as heart rate monitors back then. or calorie counters, or step counters, or smart watches, or GPS. ... I remember getting my first GPS unit - a timex GPS ironman watch.... gave you distance, and speed…
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I agree 100%. If you're not committed you won't be successful. If you want someone to do the work for you, you won't be successful. If you truly want to change your health (note I said health, not weight, because for me the driver of change was health), you'll make the little bit of effort. There is a list of stuff we all…
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I appreciate all the feedback, - and yes now looking back at the past 7 days (where I can actually remember what I ate), I think I'm underestimating a lot. the main meals I think is OK. It's the snacking in between that I'm pretty sure is off. Yesterday I had a package of my guilty pleasure, peanut butter M&Ms. I had…
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I normally try to estimate based on portion sizes and find a match in imperial measure in MFP ... I can visualize what 1/2 a cup or a cup is, but don't ask me what 100g looks like... I prob mess up the ones I only see in grams a bit. "food" for thought! I'll have to dig out the digital kitchen scale and see how bad I am at…
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"Are you sure you're using "BMR" correctly" - No i'm not sure, especially after this conversation! ... Based on multiplier I was using (1.0 not 1.2 as I just researched some more), I am not using it right. I need to adjust my thinking and tell my wife she's starving me. :neutral: I honestly never thought my food intake was…
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Thanks for all the thoughtful replies! @lietchi: I set it manually back in April, but not without some thought... I had lost a little bit before I started tracking stuff, but not much. tracking started at 226lbs, I'm essentially sedentary in my job so I had used the mayo clinic calorie calculator, then factored out 1 lb…
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COVID. Mar 17 we were told to work from home. On April 7 I realized that if I needed to protect my family I was not in the shape to do it, plus now I had an extra 4 hours a day (yes, a 2 hour commute each way) I had time and energy left to do something positive. I was never really worried about my weight and have always…
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thanks :) I actually just saw another thread posted about 4 hours ago on here that asks a really similar question - so far the comments point to eat back at least some of the exercise calories which makes sense. My concern really is that if I "did it wrong" for the first part of my journey that my metabolism has slowed and…
