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It's all nomenclature. But specifically, it is called the "fat burning zone" because it's the optimal amount of calories burned for the amount of effort you put in. Meaning that even if you went, let's say, 30BPM more, the amount of caloric burn you get would not be significant versus to amount of effort you're putting in.…

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honestly, it varies. When I made sushi at home (a bunch of friends, we made 200 sushis), we had a mix of tempura shrimp, lobster, salmon tartar, along with the usual veggies, etc and they came to about 27-30 calories per piece. I would think a normal piece in a restaurant would be about 35-40 at the most (ones with mayo…

Umm..I can't believe anyone hasn't chimed in on the most important part of this question: weight/height of the person involved. It's nice to know (based on your profile) that you're 29/f...but actually calories burned vary a lot depending on the person's age, height, weight, body fat %...and something we can't define based…

For heart rate monitor use, yes, it's a legitmate comparison. That's why he/she mentioned "not stop and go" activities. They are both non-steady rate cardio activities; meaning that your heart rate will slow down and rise significantly (peaks and valleys) during the activity and the heart rate monitor will be inaccurate.…

I think i'm the crazy one here, but I log almost a week before. On Thursday evening, I choose what meals I want to cook for the following week. On Friday, after work, I do groceries JUST for the meals I said I would prepare. I take a few hours on Sunday, cook all the meals (usually 4-5 breakfasts, 2 servings of a meal with…

egg whites, cayenne pepper, black pepper,..cook/scramble... add salsa yum

I don't completely agree with the aspect that HRMs are just "marketing" gimmicks as I think, as the OP pointed out, it is one of the most reliable tools if you're in a steady cardio activity (jogging/running, steady cycling, etc). The faults are because it's much harder to get your "net" heart rate/calorie burn (meaning,…

the HRM is the best way to track calories (for most of us, without going into advanced physics and insane machines that we don't have access to) for moderate to intense cardio workouts it is not a good way to track calories for weights because of the stop and go and inconsistent cardio training. So as long as you're doing…

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this thread has both encouraged and discouraged me: encourage: people have the same good things as I do from maintenance...more food, more fun shopping/wearing clothes discourage: i'm more of a girl than i thought i was (i am NOT a girl, hehe)

it depends how hard you work out..as far as sweat goes anyway I've had two pairs...LG TONE HBS700 and kinivo BTH240 The LG tons lasted about a year...and the kinivos about two months The problem is that if you sweat too much (like i do), you are bound to have some sweat trickle in bit by bit into the headphones, which…

honestly, my end game is a mix of a few posts on here: - cooking will usually allow you to eat more..so that's a big win for someone like me who has an insane appetite (the same meals pre-prepared tend to have higher calories and you can choose "better" ingredients) - it allows me to feel less guilty on meals (a few a…

I'll add, for overall health, cardio helps too but what i came here to say is, i love you /thread

I use a heart rate monitor sometimes and I pretty much agree with this...unless you do something consistent with consistent cardio effort (cycling, running,...even elliptical if you're going hard enough), then it might not be entirely accurate (and maybe calculating the calories burned just by breathing/living along with…

you burn less calories on an elliptical...it just feels like more

If you're looking to lose weight, it's hands down a treadmill...if you're just looking for cardio, both are great...as long as you push yourself hard on the elliptical (because the perceived effort is higher on the elliptical..so you actually have to push yourself more to get the same type of work out)...so cross training…

I agre wtih sezxystef ...if the goal is just to lose weight, then as long as you have a calorie deficit, and not letting your body going into "starvation mode"...then yes, you should be fine i kind of do the same thing..although not to the same extreme...I leave about ~300 calories per day during the week (i still eat…

I agree with this. Especially the app part... I wish we could get that information on the website as well. I look at it by week anyway...because it's not good to weigh yourself every day and look at every day as a vaccuum; our bodies are way more complicated than that. A week is not the be-all end-all...but it does give…

this...on lesser intensity/non-cardio exercise (basically anything outside running/jogging, cycling, intense elliptical, etc), then you would have to subtract the amount of calories burned just to "be alive"..that's why they are not accurate for weights either.. dont' get me wrong ...I have an H7 and I love it...I just…

"statistics can prove anything, forty percent of people know that"

this times a million...i've lost around fifty pounds (i stopped updating my weight on mfp since i want to stay stable where i am..and i haven't changed my eating habits much..maybe a little less takeout here and there...but if i want fast food, i will eat it..you just can't eat it every day this summer, i went ice cream…