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For an alternative view and why I prefer my trackers... I ran 24 miles on Saturday. MFP’s estimate would be roughly 4000 calories for the run. My Garmin estimated 2450 for the portion of my day that I was running. Because of the time and effort I spent running, I did very little else that day and ended up with a negative…
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Congratulations on the loss, finding your fitness and in learning to fuel your body appropriately! That’s all fantastic! Now-if you’re not losing, you’re eating at maintenance. Can I ask where you are getting your TDEE (the 2200 and 3000)? Those number seem perhaps a little high. How much more are you trying to lose? You…
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Shoveling snow can actually be quite a good workout. Duration also matters for calorie burn. Puttering around for 4 hours can burn more calories than 10 minutes of walking. Even though you didn’t “do” anything. All movements burn calories. They don’t need to be intense. Whether or not they have a health/aerobic/workout…
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All that means you are doing taper exactly right! Good luck!
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What matters for weight loss is calories. Only. You can eat whatever you want. If you eat fewer calories than your maintenance (even if you only carbs) you will lose weight. Period. If you drastically reduce carb intake, you will lose more water initially. That isn’t fat loss. You may also lose the will to live because…
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I have used it to help support an injured shoulder (chronic bicep tendinitis-which isn’t exactly shoulder but that’s where it hurts and that’s the movement that makes it hurt). I also found it to be supportive enough that It felt a bit like a sling (in terms of support but without the inconvenience/lack of mobility). I…
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Go back to your doctor and ask. Also ask for a referral to a physical therapist who can help with possible exercises/stretches and/or ideas for exercise while you heal. The internet is overflowing with anecdotal cures for PF which range from random supplements, assorted foot products, barefoot/zero drop shoes, all manner…
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What is your activity level not including any of the exercise you do? Meaning how many of those 14k steps come from your runs? You are very active as a person. Your mfp setting should reflect how much activity you do not including any exercise you intend to log. My example again-I’m currently averaging 29k steps a day. I…
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Yes. As long as you add in your exercise and eat those calories it will be fine. I would imagine you’ll end up eating 1700+ with all the exercise you do. My base calories are also 1200 (I’m just a bit taller and a bit older than you). I’m training for a marathon. I add in my workouts, eat the exercise calories and lose a…
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I also want to mention that if you’re looking to match the reported calorie burn of your previous workouts - if you were holding onto the bars, you weren’t burning anywhere near what the treadmill said. So going with the same advice from your other thread-lower incline and speed to something you can manage with your hands…
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Burning 12 calories per minute is not really a realistic option unless you have extraordinary fitness levels (think...Olympian). You would need to run about 7.5 miles in 45 minutes to burn 550 calories at your weight. That’s a 6 minute mile. That’s.... fast. Most people don’t run 6 minute miles for 45 minutes day after day…
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Fitbit will track active minutes if you are active for however many minutes. Your specific Fitbit may even automatically record certain types of workouts if it recognizes them (I don’t know if your model does). If your Fitbit account and your mfp account are linked, then Fitbit will send your total calories burned for the…
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I want to make sure I understand what you’re talking about. The 500 calories is what is displayed on your Fitbit/in the Fitbit app after the workout (if you record a weightlifting session from your watch). The 200 calories is what is displayed in the Fitbit app when you manually log the workout in the Fitbit app after the…
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Are you getting callouses on your hands because you’re holding on to the bars? If so, you’ll burn more calories if you lower the incline/speed to something you can manage with your arms free. That will probably also help the neck strain.
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No unexplained plateaus for any real period of time. A few weeks here and there but that’s normal due to fluctuations and what not. When my weight hasn’t changed in a significant way for an extended period (months), it’s because I’m eating at maintenance (doesn’t matter what I’m logging). Sometimes it’s because I have…
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RE: varying your trek through the neighborhood- after one of my bazillion injury rehabs when my PT had cleared me to walk in the great outdoors on non-smooth surfaces (eg not the track), he was insistent that I find a route that allowed me to be on both sides of the street (for road camber) at places that were flat, uphill…
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When you lose weight, you will lose some fat and some muscle (which includes muscles like your heart and all the muscles that help you function as a human-and are exceedingly difficult for women to build - especially as we get older). This means you want to keep every possible muscle cell you have. All of them. Your body…
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When I am running >40 miles a week, I try to do about 1/3 of them on not asphalt/concrete. I have a hard time with all hard surface running at those volumes. I don’t find that doing some portion of my mileage on soft surfaces impacts my ability to do the full race distance on hard surface. I run consecutive days though…
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Yoga and strength training are both in the database already. I’ve been using them for years. The calories for those two even seem reasonable. Are you looking under the cardio section?
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I never took before pics. I don’t even have normal/regular/candid photos of myself at my heaviest. I didn’t even think to take any until I realized it was a “thing” like I was actually sticking to this. By that point I had lost a considerable amount of weight. There’s a meme out there that says “I’ve taken so many before…
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For your first paragraph I think it might depend on which watch you have? I know for both my Fenix 5s & 5S plus, if I check my total calories before and after logging a workout/activity, the difference is the amount of workout calories. I checked for a while because there was much hubbub that Garmin workout calories were…
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The adjustment you get at the end of the day is whatever Garmin says your TDEE is minus your mfp neat plus any workouts showing in mfp. Click on the actual adjustment entry in the app (then click again) or click the “i on the web. That’s it. That’s how it works. Steps have nothing to do with it. Showing the number of steps…
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I don’t know. I ran 22 miles on Saturday. My run got me 2254 calories. My “step” adjustment was -412 (negative). 58k steps total. The next day I have yoga (161 calories), run (391 calories), strength training (151 calories) and a “step” adjustment of -108 (negative). 16k steps total. The day after was a rest day. 10k total…
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How often are you weighing yourself? Are you using a trending app (Libra/Happy Scale) to help see trends over time? Are you using the trended weight to determine if you’re losing/maintaining/gaining? You’re at a healthy weight (by BMI) and aiming for the low end of that range - which is fine, but it means progress will be…
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What kind of workouts? That makes a big difference. Walking/running needs a very different shoe than weightlifting. CrossFit kind of stuff may be best in yet another kind of shoe.
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That’s kind of too bad. While this thread has sort of veered off track a bit, I think viewed as a whole, it kind of illustrates just how subjective food “quality” is and how allowing an algorithm (or another person) to make those decisions for us isn’t always best.
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There’s a very popular “run the year” program (it’s a whole thing with medals and Facebook groups and what not). The idea being that you and/or your team will log a total of 2020 (this year) miles. There are offshoots with virtual run/race programs for km or 1000 or self-set goals. My work one year had a walk across the…
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Weight loss happens when you’re in a calorie deficit-whether you’re eating birthday cake or dry chicken breast. When you lose that weight, you will lose fat and some muscle. Getting adequate protein intake AND doing consistent, progressive resistance training (eg weightlifting) will help minimize the amount of muscle that…
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I have the free version. It’s linked to my Fitbit account and Happy scale imported all my previous Fitbit weights so I would guess you could also manually enter them if you were so inclined. I like it. It’s a trending tool. That’s all I use it for - to smooth out the fluctuations in my daily weigh-ins.
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It’s A plan but it’s unnecessarily restrictive and doesn’t do anything to increase your likelihood of success. And likely decreases your likelihood of success because it’s overly (and unnecessarily) restrictive (which tends to lead to rather epic binges and “falling off the wagon”) and doesn’t even address any thorn…
