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I wore my Apple (series 10) and my Garmin (Epix Pro) at the same time for a couple weeks, one on each arm, both paired to a Garmin HR chest strap, and the Apple did poorly with estimating intensity. It did ok on flat steady state stuff, but Garmin's HRV algorithms give it an edge on measuring calories in the wild. I also…

I second the Garmin, but mine is the higher end (Epix Pro). I wore it 24x7 during the diet and an HR chest strap during workouts and even tested it against a mask, and it did a great job. Still always an estimate, but it was very consistent and did very well in measurements of diffient activities relative to other…

"I want to be sure I don't end up over training, but want to be able to push myself as much as I can in both aspects." I went through this phase, maximum training, and it is fairly easy to navigate if you have decent feedback (listen to your body). There are actually two levels, Over Reaching and Over Training. In a…

First off, when I say "simply", I mean simply in the technical sense, on paper, it wasn't simple at all in reality, or I would have done it much sooner.:) But short version is at 255 lbs and sedentary my TDEE was 2300 calories, and at 160 lbs and moderately active, my TDEE is also 2300 calories. So that is all I did, went…

I did a mix of walking, inclined walking, and HIIT, and did appreciablly speed up the weight loss. But I was also getting into shape and mending my knees, so there was more motivation than just "faster" loss. While HIIT does burn a lot of calories, it was neck and neck with my inclined (12%) walking and the inclined…

I second the use of that particular calculator. It is based on ACSM metabolic equations of motion which for normal weight fit people is with 7% of actual calories burned. And from my own testing when I lost weight, more than close enough to factor calories from walking/running. A couple points… For outside walking, use a…

It is pretty well established in research that people who have lost significant weight and kept it off for years are quite physically active. Indeed, their TDEE at a normal weight is roughly equal to the TDEE they started with. And the recommendations from all fitness/health orgs, like the ACSM et all, follow this…

I guess it depends on history and how you approach this problem. I was active and lean all my youth and most of my 20s, till the desk job, and gained weight and fell out of shape thereafter. When I finally did get around to fixing this I realized it would be a combination of first getting through the diet phase and losing…

Ultimately it depends on the individual. I did fine with the same basic 3 meals a day just smaller meals. At the same time I started to ramp up the exercise, walking at first, to get back into shape. There are two stages to this thing, losing the weight and keeping the weight off, and they are different. In the first stage…

You should try to think in terms of calories, just as you do when tracking food. The terms sedentary, lightly active, active, etc. do have specific meanings, but are just general levels. For example, sedentary is a TDEE = 1.2 x BMR and moderately active is a TDEE = 1.55 x BMR. During weight loss, your deficit is your TDEE…

Activity is activity. A good gauge is moderate vs vigorous. Walking flat is moderate, walking at a (high) incline is vigorous, as is jogging and running. Vigorous burns calories twice as fast as moderate. While more activity during the diet (weight loss) phase is very helpful to many, the critical requirement of activity…

It depends on individual circumstances, but in terms of weight maintenance, the current recommendations from the ACSM, CDC, WHO, pretty much all health/fitness orgs is a minimum of 150 minutes a week, but up to an hour or more of moderate to vigorous activity a day. 10k steps for example is 90 minutes of brisk walking and…

I used my Garmin with great success (over time) in tracking activity calories, and I wore it 24x7 during the diet and a HR chest strap during workouts. It was as valuable to me in tracking activity calories as was MFP in tracking food. But I didn't connect the two for this reason. I set a food intake target and an activity…

Maybe relavent or not, after finally losing weight and getting active again (like I used to be before the desk job), it did take some time for my meals to normalize, and a lot of it was I wasn't eating enough for breakfast and lunch, nor enough carbs, and most of my activity was in the morning (exercise/walking) and early…

I agree with the suggestion that you do body weight exercises, push ups, sit ups, etc. You may also want to get an incline/decline bench to do some of these at an incline, depending on your starting weight. I couldn't do most of those at first at my starting weight, but could them at an incline, and it is important to be…

Weight loss and weight maintenance are two different stages in this. While the former doesn't need extra physical activity, the later certainly does. Thus, developing a solid daily routine of activity during the "diet" will ensure that you are fit and active once the diet has ended and you then keep the weight off. And…