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  • I hear you also!!! I've been down and out with a cold for 5 days. I had programmed MFP for a 500 calorie deficit (trying to lose a pound a week) and the first day with this sinus infection I knew that wasn't going to hold, so I've been eating pretty much maintenance calories or a little above. One, I figure my body needs…
  • you're only talking 1.6 lbs, that's THREE 8-oz glasses of water, it's purely fluctuations in the amount of food/water your body is retaining at any particular time within the day, I'll almost always weigh some 3-5 lbs heavier at the end of the day than first thing in the morning especially if I've gotten my EIGHT 8-oz…
  • What an inspiration you are!!! Way to go, keep doing what you're doing!!!
  • Sorry, it seems I may have gotten off on a rabbit trail. So what you're saying is 1) you don't weigh that much different from the summer 2) you had your HRM "fixed" 3) before on a approx. 4 mile hour long walk you burned 500 calories (according to this HRM?) and today it (after being "fixed") it said 374 calories? The…
  • don't really think there is anything wrong with your heart rate monitor, other than you may have to adjust the settings (more on this at the end) now as to taking more work to burn more calories ... well it all depends on what you mean by "more work", if you mean "more output" you're correct, if you mean "more effort"…
  • My dad was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes late in his life, but he was able to keep it under control through diet. He never had to take insulin and other than watching what, how much, and how often he ate it really didn't affect his health. He has since passed on but the diabetes was not factor in his death. Some 7 years…
  • If the treadmill is also listening to your heart broadcast from the chest strap, then numbers should be close. But if the treadmill is coming up with a number with no respect to your heart rate, then the Polar F6 monitor will be much closer to true I've got a Polar F6 and I believe there are other settings besides…
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