OllieS0806 Member

I agree with what others are saying. I was getting annoyed with the day-to-day fluctuations also, but if you track a rolling 5 or 7 day average weight, you should see something more consistent. You can plug your daily weights into excel and just do an average over 5 or 7 days. Pay attention to the current day's average.

Greek yogurt is a good high-protein/low-calorie food (plain, 0% fat). You can add some artificial sweeteners and vanilla extract or fruit to make it taste good. It is full of whey protein, which is what is in all of those powders.

Thanks for all of the help, but I gave up on the Fitbit. Too much configuration to try to get the calories in-line. I am surprised Fitbit continues using the formulas they do when it appears they are known to overestimate. All of the overriding and manual adjustments still resulted in incorrect calories and was a lot of…

I am also having a much better experience with the Apple Watch (SE) than my Fitbit Charge 4. I hated the Fitbit. The calorie information sent to MFP was so over estimated that it was unusable. Apple Watch calorie info (not sure who computes the calories) makes a lot more sense based on my targets and observed weight loss…

I did about the same amount of purposeful walk/exercise on both days. So how do I use Fitbit only for step count? I disconnected it, but I don't know how to make that work.

I turned off auto-logging of exercise and stopped logging it manually also. However, I think it is now giving me credit for zone minutes that happen when I exercise even without recording it. On days where I overrode the exercise, I had 33k steps and about 3472 calories. The next day, I stopped recording the exercises. I…

If I just don't record purposeful walks, can I avoid all of the overriding stuff?

The 1.2 miles was from Fitbit. I don't know how it computed the distance though. It does have its own GPS, so either method is possible.

Things are looking more reasonable (in-line with MFP estimates). One thing odd: when I override an exercise, the step count for the manual entry is much higher (4300 steps vs 3200 for a 1.2 mile walk). Does this mean that my manual stride length is on the low side?

I've only overridden the purposeful walks, but that is not my entire day's worth of walking of course. I pace around the house a lot when on conference calls, go to the grocery store, etc.. According to the log, it looks like about half the day is purposeful walks. The difference still seems extreme, but I'll give it a few…

Thanks for your help. This is going to take some adjusting. The difference is so extreme. My exercise total on 36k steps the old way was 3053. The new formula has me about 4k calories for 40k steps. I will see how it goes tomorrow with the updated information on the stride.

I added those manual activities like you said. So I don't have to delete the fitbit-generated record?

I also reduced my stride length a bit, as I believe my legs are shorter than average even for my height. Should I expect to see a calorie update?

OK thanks. Is there a place in MFP where I can just put in some kind of exercise offset or something? Or do I just have to do the math in my head?

The distance looks accurate. I have taken a walk with my old Pacer app, and the Fitbit logged the same distance. It has the GPS feature anyway, and the mapped walk looks right. I accidentally logged it as a run, so not sure if that matters in any way. I also noticed that my heartrate tends to be higher on walks when I have…

Thanks for the reply. I checked one of the logged activities, and it looks like Fitbit is somewhat higher. I didn't know how to translate the 28 feet of elevation into "grade" however. For the exercise I picked, I got 190 calories on EXRX, and 221 on Fitbit.

I am not sure this exercise will do what you are hoping for. You cannot spot-reduce fat, so I am not sure you will see any actual toning from doing this exercise. If you build up arm muscles (not sure this routine will even do that), then your arms might look leaner due to the added muscle, but you will likely have close…

I've been eating fresh cherries with zero-fat plain Greek yogurt. Add a little splenda and vanilla extract, and it tastes great. Total calories 179 with about 20g of protein.

One key thing here is to make sure you are measuring your daily calories accurately. Put everything into MFP. Use a scale to make sure you are accurate. Don't "lick the spoon" too often when getting your food ready. If you measure accurately, you might find that you are actually going a bit over what you think you are…

I don't think cutting out artificial sweeteners will help. Also, it really doesn't matter what time of day you eat, unless eating late in the day just causes you to consume more calories overall throughout the course of the day. This video is very useful in explaining how fat loss works from a scientific perspective:…