monica182 Member

Maybe redo your setup goals just to check they are correct. I’m 2 inches shorter than you but started around the same weight. I also exercise 1 hour per day, cardio everyday and weights 3 times per week. MFP had me on around 1600 cals a day including my exercise calories (I have my Fitbit connected and it gives me around…

Newby to the group here and just completed my 2nd week. 5x5 squats at 32.5kg 1x5 OHP warmup with 20kg bar, 1x5 25kg, 2x5 22.5kg, 2x5 20kg. 2x5 deadlift at 60kg Did 5x5 22.5kg last week so disappointed I had to drop down to 20kg. Trainer taught me to do the ohp with ez curl bar but I was having trouble getting it up to my…

I completed c25k a couple of months back and found the same problem. My cardio health increased really quickly and found I had no problems with breath or stamina as I progressed, it was my legs that were the problem. They felt like dead weights! A couple of months on and 40lbs lighter from when I started I’m increasing my…

Can I ask whereabouts you got all this data from? I was trying to do the same comparison the other day and couldn’t find any reports on the Fitbit website. I ended up getting the reports out of MFP and found that my Fitbit Blaze calorie burnwas also very accurate based on what I had lost. I was surprised at this as I never…

It could be the bus ride throwing it out. My Fitbit sometimes logs a bumpy drive as 'active minutes' and when I go in to see why I have active minutes showing as I haven't done any intentional exercise it has logged it as a bike ride. I have downloaded an app called DriveBit which I turn on and off at the beginning and end…

I usually save around 900 calories to eat from dinner until bed time (I'm eating roughly 1500 per day once I add exercise calories back in). We have an early dinner around 5.30 then that leaves me about 350calories for snacks until bedtime around midnight. I put on all my weight through late night snacking/bingeing of some…

Will give it a go, hopefully I don't lose my data in the process!

Also if I lost 1kg a week I would be at my goal at 15 jun 2018 (20kgs to go) whereas it shows in the pic that I would reach goal at this date losing 2kgs a week. Maybe I should uninstall the app and reinstall to see if it corrects it.

I'm referring to the math, I believe a 1000 cal deficit a day or 7000 cals over a week is equal to 2lbs loss not 2kg? Maybe I am reading it the wrong way but I thought 3500 calories equaled a pound, so eat 3500 cal surplus put on a pound, eat a 3500 deficit, lose a pound. If you look at their workings they are saying 3500…

I have a lying cheating Fitbit as well... this is what my settings look like to set my deficit. Am I going crazy or is this wrong? I have emailed Fitbit twice about it and they keep fobbing me off saying it uses the information I entered to select my goal. But I can't lose 2kgs a week with a 1000 cal daily deficit no…

I tried logging on there when I first got mine at Christmas. The data base is not as big so lots of foods weren't there that I normally eat. Plus all my regular foods come up automatically on MFP so it was just easier to stay with MFP. Because they are synced all my logging on MFP transfers over to Fitbit app anyway so I…

I think they are talking about your rower

I am your height and started off at about 260. I initially ate at 1600 cals a day and was losing one pound per week. I was very sedentary. After 50lbs lost I now eat 1500 cals a day and do purposeful exercise of at least 40 mins a day and am losing 2 lbs per week. I will probably up my calories by another 100 or so once I…

25/12/17 - 211 2/1/18 - 213.5 5/1/18 - 208.5 Ate way more over the Christmas New Year period than I have been (antipasto style food made up most of the extra) but still tried to maintain a small deficit through lots of walking while on holiday. Still logged every day but lots of guesstimates. Got a Fitbit for Christmas…

I started at 240lbs and will be doing my final run on Friday at around 210lbs. I had tried it before and failed but I think what helped me succeed this time was to do other cardio on the days between the runs. I alternated with elliptical, bike and rower and this helped a lot to increase my fitness more quickly. A lot of…

Edited to delete comment after reading further in the thread :)

Yep mentioned about using the correct entries previously before I realized she wasn't using a scale :)

This is really important. If you are using a scale to weigh and measure then you can be pretty confident about the diet side of things. I weigh everything that goes in my mouth when I eat at home, which is most of the time. I use the recipe builder when I am cooking to work out fairly precisely what is in the meals I cook.…

Yep knew about the muscle repair causing fluid retention and have been learning a bit about the stress hormones. Coincidentally the big loss this week also coincides with not having really sore muscles anymore every single day. Going from absolutely no exercise for years to doing an hour of weights or cardio every day took…

I have found that adding exercise in the mix makes my weight loss a lot less linear. Calorie counting alone I have always seen a pretty predictable loss of weight. This time around I have started going to the gym daily and training pretty aggressively and my weight has been dropping in stages. I would lose .25 lb a week…

B - 2 toasted wholemeal crumpets with butter and vegemite and coffee with skim milk L - 1 wholemeal crumpet, 1 high fiber slice of bread, grilled with 2 slices low fat jarlsberg, no sugar Greek yoghurt with mango D - skinnymixers chicken Laksa made with light coconut milk instead of cream, konjac noodles, bean sprouts,…

I read this very interesting article just a few hours ago about this topic. I think I'll be cutting out my couple of drinks a week after reading! http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/research/alcohol.htm

I'm 5'7" and aiming for 154. The lowest I've been since my teens is 160 about 10 years ago and I was pretty happy at that weight... Almost halfway there!

It was a beautiful 36c here today

Actually thats a better idea... why didn't I think of that! I'd still be taking the same time out of my day and getting more benefit from it :happy:

Thanks, your advice is appreciated! I think I will still go ahead with it and just not log and hopefully it will help keep my mind sharp throughout the day anyway.

I just reached 35lbs lost on Tuesday and I started my weightloss on 6 Oct 2010, so almost exactly 4 months. I had one week over Christmas where I did not lose anything but every other week I have lost between 1 & 3 lbs. Usually a small loss one week then a larger loss the next. I'm almost at my halfway point so hoping to…