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When I lost my first 20 pounds, my mother asked me if I was pregnant. Thanks, Mom! When I lost 60-65 pounds, people thought I was lying (when they overhead me talking with someone who knew I was losing and had asked-I wasn’t randomly going around telling people how much I lost!). When I lost 65-70 they thought I was…
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It is all in the math. How much these days affect your loss depends on what your overall deficit is-including these high days. I also have one day/week that I eat considerably more calories than other days. On purpose. This doesn’t affect my overall loss because I “bank” a few calories from other days to cover the overage…
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Probably one of these brands (or a thousand others): Nike Asics Brooks Saucony Mizuno Altra Adidas New Balance Going to a running store should involve a gait analysis, discussion of foot issues (arch/neuromas/bunions/toenail issues/etc.) and past/current injuries, measurement of your foot (length, width, height, assessment…
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Are they all being sold by Amazon or is the one without free returns a third party seller (which may or may not be fulfilled/shipped by amazon)?
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Moisture-wicking (or at the very least non-cotton) clothing without rough seams (in places that chafe), and body glide.
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You may consider asking your PT for suggestions as well. When I’ve had lower body injuries (ankle & Knee X2), my PT has suggested modifications to strength training routines and cardio/etc that was safe (and best) to do. I’ve gotten through all of those injuries relatively unscathed and even made progress on some…
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It’s possible. I’ve been here 8 1/2 years and some of my closest friends are people I’ve met here. I’ve met (in person) I think 30-something people from my FL, some just in passing while traveling, some doing races and travels and things. As for “vetting” - most of my FL doesn’t even venture into the forums. I’m not sure…
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From the mfp help site: https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045064472-Scheduled-Maintenance-on-Step-Tracking-6-25
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I never know. I weigh daily and lose less than 3 pounds a month. My weight fluctuates as much as 8 (or more) pounds over the course of a week. Sometimes my scale feels like a random number generator. I track all my food and know where I stand overall. If I have eaten within my goal*, I know I’m losing fat even if the scale…
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Seriously read this. And this is my weight graph for the past 3 months. I weigh daily. Some recent weigh ins are HIGHER than some weigh-ins 3 months ago. Sometimes for a couple/few days in a row. The article above lists some of the eighty-bazillion reasons for that. The dark blue line is my trend. I am losing. All is well.
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I have an ionic and a charge 4. The ionic has a few giant white lines through the screen so I don’t use it anymore, but it offers the ability to customize the screen you see when you’re working out. So when you start a run activity, you can tell your ionic you want to see distance on top, HR on the bottom and then the…
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I’m intrigued that you consider anything over GPS, HRM, and syncing to Strava/Garmin/whatever that other one is as overkill but you want a Fenix 6x. I’ll put that aside for a moment. There are tons of features that people value in a fitness tracker-which include the things the tracker actually does, as well as budget,…
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I use Garmin as one of my mechanisms to monitor training load. And even that’s semi-questionable. I have used a combo of several other markers as much better indicators of recovery status for several years. Although I guess some are the same markers-just Presented in a much more meaningful way elsewhere (HRV for example).…
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Last night before I started my workouts, my recovery time in the widget said 5 hours. I ran for an hour (evidently VERY high intensity). When I stopped the activity, it said 62 hours recovery (“it” being the screens you can page through when you finish an activity that show you assorted info about that activity). The…
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Training status isn’t that sophisticated. It takes your training load (below, within or above your normal), then takes your most recent vo2max estimate and compares it to the last. If your training is in range and your vo2max estimate is lower than last time (by .000002 due to heat or a slow run or whatever) your training…
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Bodies are weird. I find that while I am typically about the same size when I’m a certain weight (going up/down), how much I do certain types of exercise makes some difference in my shape. Certain heavy lifts make me slightly more compact. Not like OMG girl you’re so ripped! But just enough that clothes sit a bit…
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I wish I paid better attention on days when I do multiple activities or when I did a workout while I still had remaining recovery hours (To see what value is displayed in the training status). Mine currently says 0 hours recovery needed (yesterday was a rest day-and none of my Sunday workouts racked up big recovery hours…
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This plus how much overall life stress? And how often are you doing cutback weeks? It sounds a lot like lack of recovery - those are symptoms I have when I am not getting adequate recovery (pushing too much; training load too high, not enough sleep, too much life stress, not enough food, not allowing for climate…
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I was morbidly obese when I started. I had to rest going up the stairs. I got winded walking across a room. I was too weak to carry more than a single can of vegetables at a time. “Exercise” was awful. I decided to start running. I could “run” for about 5 seconds at a time. Then I needed about 5 minutes of a very slow walk…
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I absolutely count it for the number of calories it burns and I may count it as my exercise depending on what it is and what else I’m training for. Chopping/hauling wood, moving earth, moving stones is all heavy labor for sure.
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This is my weight chart over the last 3 months. I weigh daily. I am in the same overall deficit the whole time. As you can see, there are some recent individual weigh-ins that are even higher than some of the weigh-ins 3 months ago. I am not gaining weight. The dark blue line is the trend. My weight can vary as much as 8…
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Advice is to eat the 1900 calories. That’s why it says “calories remaining”. Massive calorie deficits tend to lead to ravenous hunger and binging (as you are finding). Plan to eat until you have 0 calories remaining.
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The mfp food database is a zillion times more comprehensive than the Fitbit one. You can sync your Fitbit to your mfp account - which allows you to use the mfp database and get the activity calorie burn estimates info from Fitbit.
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Need to click one more time on that screen to get to the screen where the math is. That is what it shows when the adjustment amount is 0-even if info is being fed.
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I concur. I haven’t touched Garmin express since my Forerunner 630 (I think that’s the model-it’s from pre-Bluetooth years). My last 5 devices (Vivoactive HR and 4 Fenix’s) have all gotten updates and managed apps/widgets/whatever through Garmin Connect.
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They’ve had this announcement open in the help section since last week’s “maintenance” (when the latest round of “unable to complete your request” errors and all kinds of syncing issues started). It was updated yesterday (not sure the exact update except more words are in bold now) so it is still an active document.…
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Losing weight helped me some. I saw the biggest change switching to a low fat (particularly low saturated fat) diet. I’m sure the exercise played a role as well-but that was consistent with both weight loss alone and the low fat diet (but new with the weight loss). Since I can control mine with diet-that’s what I do.
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Garmin sends the workout data over to mfp. That includes the calories burned during the workout. Garmin doesn’t record active vs total calories separately as part of the workout activity. It’s just one calories burned. That is what Shows as your calories burned in the workout entry it transfers to mfp. Your calorie…
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What you eat matters for lots of reasons-but not for weight loss. Please provide some of this science that suggests that a 17 hour fast (specifically from 7PM to noon-regardless of life circumstances) two days a week is beneficial? I’ve read some of that heralded science that actually shows some women have hormonal issues…
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You may have better luck contacting Garmin. I was able to resolve an issue with them via chat in about 5 minutes.
