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Calisthenics. If you’re doing a whole, whole lot of them.

And please ignore everything in bold here. Exactly none of that is necessary (or even extra helpful).

Oh-for sure on the people talking about creating a buffer. I was thinking more of those who militantly announce that consuming exercise calories leads to gain (or no loss) and purport this as gospel to those asking what to do. No question that there’s a balance in all this. And choosing to not eat them and/or eat a small…

In addition to the athlete side, I think a lot of the people who don’t lose/gain when they eat them may be eyeballing portions or using measuring cups (eg-eating much more than they think) and are probably eating their exercise calories already because their intake is more than what they are logging.

Give this a good read. This is my weight chart (daily weigh-ins) for the last 3 months. I’ve been at the same deficit the entire time. Some of my weigh-ins in the last week were even higher than some of the weigh-ins in first weeks, but I’m clearly losing (dark blue is the trend line).

I did a virtual one put on by vacation races. Their usual slogan is “run where you play” (they host races at/in national parks. This one is “ Run where you have to run because you can't go anywhere else right now.” The race info made me smile a little: “RACE OVERVIEW This is a challenging course but also easy, we're not…

Running is my first choice. With hiking and biking thrown in when possible. Outside nearly always preferable.

How long is “a while”? There are still unresolved issues from Maintenance on 6/5, and I believe there was an unrelated Fitbit syncing issues in the days leading up to that. So if a while is the last couple of weeks-it could be you’re stuck in the pile of backlogged sync requests.…

Are you planning to sync your watch with mfp? Or just manually add the workouts? If you’re just adding the workouts-add the “active” calories. The total calories is how many calories you burned from when you hit start to when you stopped the workout. The active calories is how many you burned actually working out (vs how…

A number of factors affect your likelihood of having loose skin: how overweight you are, how long you’ve been overweight, age, genetics, etc. It also takes time (like 2+ years) after you reach your maintenance weight for skin to do whatever tightening up it may do. My experience is that being morbidly obese such that I…

Of course. That’s how mfp is designed to work (and that’s how it does work). I don’t workout to burn calories. I do assorted workouts as part of an overall training plan to become faster, stronger, fitter, have more endurance and more running PR’s. My total workout time is 10-15 hours a week (much of it spent running). My…

You can view the details of the exercise calorie calculation by clicking that entry in the app (the click again) or clicking the “i” by the entry on the website. You will see what Garmin estimates as your total calories burned for the day. Below that you’ll see what mfp expects you to burn for he day (this includes what it…

That’s good but it’s not quite what I was thinking of. There’s a particular thread I’m thinking of where a number of these things were brought up and discussed (it was an OP asking a question similar to this thread - but I believe OP was male and wanted to run a very significant deficit). There was discussion about the…

I’ll see if I can find some of the discussions where those studies were referenced. But the search function (particularly with a very prolific poster) isn’t always perfect.

Back in the days of Anvilhead and others, there were links and discussions of studies that showed a max of how much fat can actually be burned in a day. These values ranged from 11-26 calories per pound of body fat (the higher number from the starvation study). The .5-1% max loss rate, combined with the max amount of fat…

I can’t find my pic at the moment, but I’ve had months where I weighed the same at the beginning and end of the month even though my trend was clearly down (but the first weigh-In was on the lower side and the last was higher). So I would be pretty discouraged to have done everything right for a month and not lost even .1…

I’m doing stuff that seems like a fun/unique theme, anything supporting a charity that’s meaningful to me, and supporting virtual options from the companies that put on the races I ordinarily run. So if a virtual race helps keep them afloat, why not? I’m not paying any other race fees right now. Plus some of them are…

That’s what it sounded like you were doing which is why I was asking. I’ve always entered my recipes as recipes and not encountered weirdness like you did. Not that it can’t happen of course. Mfp sometimes seems to strive to find new and exciting bugs. The only meals I have saved are my own recipes that I wanted to use as…

Unless you have an allergy to something listed, the ingredients are fine. If you’re worried about the ingredients in frozen/prepared chicken, and assuming chicken is available where you are and isn’t subject to purchase limitations (both are an issue where I am), then buy fresh chicken, cook and cut it into strips…

Interesting. Did you enter your recipe as a recipe or a meal? If a recipe-how many servings did you say it had?

I think you really need to consider that your maintenance calories are more than 1600. Mfp (based on your questionable choice of sedentary) indicates your maintenance is 1730. Your results indicate you’re currently running a 1500 calorie per day deficit. Meaning your maintenance is more like 2500-2700 (so you’re not…

Another option-if you don’t have a TV but do have a tablet, apps like “BitGym” which will display a video of a route (hiking in a mountain or something) and attempt to match it to your speed (that part is kind of hit or miss but it’s at least some scenery).

Fitbit can be very high. Particularly if worn on a dominant hand or if someone typically makes a lot of hand gestures. I often burn 300 calories on my wrist based Fitbit when I’m making a presentation during a conference call (I work at home all the time). Or cooking a meal. Or folding laundry. Or pretty much anything…

My treadmill also faces a TV. That’s my primary source of entertainment. Because of ice storms this winter; I did some of my longest marathon training runs on the treadmill and I would have gone out of my mind without the TV. I’m also fortunate that my current TM has a system to follow a mapped route (for elevation) and…

This is my weight chart for the last three months. There are all kinds of fluctuations-hormones, food, weather, stress, workouts, etc. The dark blue is the trend line. I am at the same deficit the entire time. All those other factors affect the number that shows on the scale. But I’m still losing.

As straight numbers, indeed. But looking at the Fitbit graph with calories out being 3-4k? That leads me to believe that the Fitbit estimates are quite high (and resulting calorie adjustments are also high) and that OP should be going by actual loss rate (over time). OP is eating an average of 1600 cal/day. If (and HUGE…

Mfp sets your goal based on the assumption that you’ll never actually do any exercise. So when you do exercise, it adds those calories to what you should be eating (that’s why your calories remaining increases). Whether or not it’s even realistic for you to try to lose 2 pounds a week is a whole different discussion. You…

Here are how my graphs typically look. I lose as expected. First is net, second is total.

Yes. You can eat another 4300 calories and be at your goal for the week. That’s what I do-I use that same graph to keep myself to my weekly goal (although I have one day that is typically far over maintenance). If you find you are losing faster than expected over 6-8 weeks, you will probably want to eat a bit more of your…

I don’t think it’s there. You get a recovery time without even syncing so I think it might be just in the watch. But, I can see mine in the training status widget on the watch (at any time-not just after a workout) so maybe it’s there for yours too? I realize that would require you to have the watch-which sort of defeats…