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You have a fever - which is a sign your body is already fighting something. You feel badly (another sign your body is fighting something). Why would you divert what little energy you have away from fighting whatever is making you feel this way? What do you hope for this workout to accomplish? Do you expect to get…
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I will be vote # 17-ish for AfterShokz. I started with the Titanium Mini, then got a pair of the Air something or other. I wanted something with 8+ hours battery life and the open ear design is a literal life saver for outdoor activities. I don’t know that they would work as effectively for indoor workouts in a gym since…
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I have high cholesterol that responds to a lower fat (but particularly low saturated fat) diet. Diet isn’t universally a cure though-so many people eat “clean” and it doesn’t fix their cholesterol. Have you had yours retested after a period of eating “clean” to confirm that yours responds to dietary changes? Meaning- is…
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After slogging my way through the New Orleans marathon at the beginning of February, I’ve been working (mostly resting) my way back from overtraining (wherein among a multitude of other things, my RHR which is normally 55-60, peaked at 84. Now down to about 70. Yikes.). I am scheduled to run the Canyonlands half on 3/14.…
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Is there a reason your fat is so low? 20% is really the very lowest within a minimally “healthy” range (not even ideal or recommended-just the absolute bare minimum). There are medical reasons someone might need to keep dietary fat that low, so if that’s the case, then ignore the rest of this. I would nearly always opt for…
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Are you logging the walks you do before and after work as exercise? If so, how many of your steps come from those walks? Your mfp activity setting should be what you do not including anything you log as exercise. That may not match your overall activity level. For example-I average 12k steps a day. That’s active. 9k of…
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Are you training on the TM by choice or necessity? Can you do any of your training outside? The road is a harder surface than the TM, the road (probably) has some camber and surface imperfections (meaning every step isn’t the same), the road has incline and decline, and most importantly-you have to pace yourself (which is…
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I have found that doing the work to find my value and worth as a person completely unrelated to my weight/appearance has made weight loss far less stressful. Not only do I not have false expectations attached to my results (once I’m skinny I’ll be happy/pretty/loved/awesome/etc.), I have no emotional attachment to day to…
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One year for thanksgiving (I think), I hadn’t put all the recipes into the builder yet so I just logged things using a best guess/reasonable entry from the database. I then went back and entered the recipes and changed my log to the accurate entries. The difference was about 10%. So a few hundred calories. Over the course…
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I hike in Altra Lone Peak’s. They are trail running shoes but work well for hiking. They are also lightweight, wide, well cushioned and have a rock plate. I also have a Morton’s neuroma and the wide, cushion and rock plate make a world of difference in my comfort while encountering varying terrain. A squished foot or…
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It does sound like the shoe change. Also keep in mind that a professional shoe fitting will analyze your gait, measure your shoe and suggest the shoe or shoes that match up. Meaning they know which shoes are good for which levels of pronation, which shoes have wide and/or high toe-boxes, narrow heels, etc. They will ask…
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I have had good luck training for a marathon using body glide. I have a “feet” one and a regular one so only one touches my feet (that’s me and my feet skeeviness I think.). I don’t think the feet version is any different than the regular but it says feet so that means the regular one isn’t on my feet. If you’d like to…
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I am a runner but I also am looking for improvements in pace/effort at a given HR or a lower HR for a given pace/effort. Meaning that I look at my HR that used to be 170 at a 10 min/mile pace, but now it’s 130. Or I used to run 12 min/mile pace at a HR of 135, now it’s an 8 min/mile pace at HR 135. I don’t think my max HR…
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When you say significantly more than outdoor walk, do you mean for the treadmill walks you recorded as outdoor walks or walks you did outdoors (that you recorded as outdoor walks) that are the same distance/time/etc? If you recorded treadmill walks as outdoor walks-the distance recorded would be very close to 0 (although…
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Probably nothing too terrible because that would mean eating nothing and probably doing some exercise on top of that. So after a few days/week, he’d be too weak to function, probably pass out and be taken to the hospital-at which point they would find him dehydrated and pump him full of fluids, run a zillion tests while he…
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Are you trying to create an account on the app or just log in? You should be able to just log in using the same credentials you already setup. If it’s telling you the email is already in use, it sounds like maybe you’re trying to create a new account on the app? Or the button you clicked is to create a new account even if…
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Some people can manage their checking account without keeping a detailed record. I cannot. Some people can manage their calorie intake wi to our keeping a detailed record. I cannot. There is sometimes the assumption that keeping a food log is somehow failing to “learn” how to eat. And that if you did it “right” then you…
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Just want to second that <20% is very low for a woman. And that doesn’t mean “elite” - it means that being that low is problematic for hormones and things and proper healthy bodily functions. Fitness to me is a healthy cardiovascular system and strength & flexibility to function well in my life. I want to be able to run…
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Vegan food has calories just like-well-all food. To lose weight, you need eat fewer calories than you use. You can choose to eat those calories in vegan forms if you wish. But there’s nothing magical about veganisnn for weight loss.
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The calories listed on that “steps” line includes all the calories from your workouts. Fitbit doesn’t send over individual workout activities-just the total calories. If you want to post it in your newsfeed-you can make a generic status and share it that way?
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Can you define “not budging”? Does the scale say exactly the same number? Or is it different but not the number you’re hoping for? Are you logging and eating exercise calories? I am the same height, weigh 40 pounds less, and I lose a little less than a pound a week on 1200 NET (which means 1200 plus exercise). Are you…
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Calorie burn is a function of “work” (in the high school physics sort of way) performed. Working at a greater intensity (moving more mass with more force/velocity/etc) burns more calories. If one could continuously work at maximum output for an extended period of time, that would burn the most calories. However-that’s not…
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Here to help you say? Huh: I got morbidly obese while intermittent fasting. Who knew that was even possible? IF is MAGIC! Or not. And I have been eating “right” for years (mostly while still IF-but also sometimes not since people said eating at night made you fat and/or you have to keep your metabolism “going” or whatever…
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That is still probably an incredibly generous number. Walking and running calories can be estimated pretty well with weight x miles x .63 for running or .3 for walking. Pace doesn’t matter. So at your weight, you’re burning about 158 calories per mile for running and 75 per mile for walking. These numbers are for just what…
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Your body burns calories even if you are in a coma. So what MMR is saying (I think-I’m not sure what “factors in” means to them) is that it is including those calories in the total that it gives you. So MMR is giving you the total number of calories you burned, not just the calories you burned by doing the workout.…
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You don’t need to eat anything before or after unless your runs are pretty long (think 2+ hours). You can eat whatever you’d like that fits your calorie/macro goals. I’d suggest staying away from things with a lot of fat and/or fiber as those can cause stomach...unrest on your run. Popular options for pre-run snacks are…
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Mfp codes any activity it can’t directly match to “aerobics”. Skydiving-aerobics, yoga used to be aerobics (That’s been updated for a while though), climbing-aerobics, etc. If mfp doesn’t have a mapping for it, it defaults to aerobics. On the calorie side-it’s not making any difference whether you track an activity on your…
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Reach out to support. When you sync the next morning. It should be updating the prior day’s numbers to show your complete day’s actual calorie total (It will say 11:59 not 12:00). Occasionally I’ve had it skip out and never fully update the prior day-but that’s like 10-15 days total over 5-ish years.
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It’s a week. It sounds like you’re going to be quite active. Just do that. You’ll be carrying luggage and doing things you maybe don’t ordinarily do. Consider this a deload week and enjoy your holiday. Your muscles won’t waste away. And a week of R&R will likely have you coming back to better workouts.
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This is what weight loss looks like. What causes the spikes? Workouts, increased carb and/or sodium intake, hormones, weather (not kidding), stress, food in my guts, aliens (kidding-maybe).
