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We keep our gym membership for a couple of reasons. First, my wife enjoys water aerobics and the classes that are offered by the "Y" (where our membership is - along with 12,000 of our "best friends.") I expect this is similar to your enjoying the classes that you can only get by having a gym membership. Physically it is…

Depends a little on how much effort you want to put into this. A really nice web site for gluten-free is "Against all grain". That site's author recently put out a good cookbook on gluten-free and many (most?) are also dairy free. There are a LOT of web sites that have recipes and tips for gluten-free/dairy free diets.…

If you are concerned about it you could just take the Fitbit off when you are doing the C25K. You'd lose the total steps for the day that FB would otherwise have recorded. Personally I think all of these are guesses by the software so either is likely to be closer (or further) from the real measure. For my own C25K program…

Focus more on your weekly, not daily, total/goals. Same is true for me in calories consumed. One day does not matter much to me but if I see a trend that impacts an entire week I know I need to make some adjustments.

Go to your Dashboard (the page with the Tiles). Hover your cursor over whatever goal you want to change and you will get a couple of options. Click on the "gear" wheel option and a box will open that will allow you to change the goal that is associated with that Tile. Not very intuitive on Fitbit's part, but it works once…

You can link many devices/apps to MFP. It should be pretty easy to find the list on the MFP site. I use my FitBit for tracking things all day - just keep it in my pocket and let it sync to the FitBit app on my iPhone. I have friends who use MapMyWalk on their iPhones and use that to track their neighborhood walks. MMW will…

I trust that when you set your Fitbit up that you made sure to set the time zone for the time zone you live in or if you have moved to a new area that you changed the time zone? One of our friends travels - a lot - from California, to Singapore, to South America...and her FB numbers can swing pretty widely if she does not…

Assuming that you have the settings the same for FB and MFP their estimates of the number of calories you can consume should be close (but perhaps not identical). I generally use MFP as my "master" program and then let it use the data from FB or DigiFit or MapMyFitness... rather than try to get all of them to work together…

I have a Polar H7 that I use when I use Digifit app. I have the Fitbit, MFP and Digifit tied together and let them figure out the details. Seems to work pretty well. You can also enter the calories burned manually on MFP. Some folks seem to find it easier to take the Fitbit off when they go to the gym and are using an HRM…

I found it fairly ease, and quick, to lose the first 5-7%. Since then it has been very slow in moving the scale. My guess, for myself, is that to drop another 10 or so pounds I'd need to cut back to a level below which I am comfortable. what I am looking for is a level that both lets me continue to lose a couple of pounds…

You will probably get several, often conflicting, replies to this post as it does not seem that there is any one "right" way to do this. The Flex is a basically a motion detector - it "detects" when you are moving and counts each move as a step. For example, if you wear it on your wrist and have a job that you sit but move…

Here is a link to the Fitbit Help site that tells how to clean the Flex http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/How-do-I-clean-my-Flex I figure they should know what's best for a product they sell.

If I understand what you are asking The "calories left" takes into account how much exercise your Fitbit has recorded (and probably what you have added manually) so will change as the day goes on. I believe it assumes a certain amount of activity at the start of the day based on how you set your profile (whether you said…

My simplification was to let MFP do all the food tracking and Fitbit to coordinate all the exercise tracking then give that information back to MFP. MFP serves as my main site. I find MFP to be easiest to enter food/recipes and several of the apps I use, including Fitbit, link very well with it. I think either Fitbit or…

Maybe I read this wrong, but was your total intake 1326 and you exercised for 878 meaning that your intake after exercise was only 448 calories or was your total intake the 1326 + 878 (2,204)? If the former that is WAY too low and if the latter perhaps too high. Personally I don't eat back much in the way of exercise…

Gigigator - I'm not sure that having the clap, i.e., slang for venereal disease, would really help, but a CPAP machine might be good. :-)

There are two that I turn to. The first: mix some olive oil, brown sugar, soy sauce and water. Pour in a seal tight plastic bag, Add the salmon and let marinate in the refrigerator for at least 4-6 hours if possible turning the bag over whenever you think about it. the amount of oil/sugar/soy/water varies depending on how…

I doubt that there is a hard and fast rule for this and that it depends on how active you have been. For example, many football players are way over 200 pounds. If you have been walking enough so that walking is not much of an exercise you might start the C25K program and listen to your knees. I'm doing one after not…

Well, I'm nearly 4 years older than you and figured a while back that I could either start or not start - the decision was mine. The same is true for you. You either really want to make some changes in how you eat and how active you are, or you don't want to make those changes. Starting out by saying that "there is not…

You can check the post below from one of the Fitbit design engineers: http://blog.fitbit.com/246/ I would guess that on the treadmill you are walking faster than you normally do and so the Fitbit 3-axis accelerometer takes that into account and gives you extra calorie credit. If you have the Fitbit tied into your MFP…

In general, I'd say don't do anything that you cannot do for the long term. 1200 calories seems quite low to me to do for the next 20 years so I would be looking for a level that was something I could live with. The same goes for exercise. I do not know how strenuous your walks are but if your heart rate is not getting to…

From what I have read I believe Ukary is right. If you are thirsty, have something to drink. It could be water, but it can be any liquid. There was a study a few years ago with twins. One was encouraged to have the 8 glasses of water a day, the other just had whatever she wanted but it was significantly less than 8…

Do you have a heart rate monitor? If so, check out http://www.thewalkingsite.com/thr.html. The HR for losing weight is only 60-70% of max which you will probably reach pretty easily. Higher percentages have some health benefits not related to losing weight but without a HR you are guessing. Any amount of walking will help.…

You are more likely to lose weight through watching what you eat than you are through exercise. For instance, a single slice of whole wheat bread is about 90 calories so a sandwich with two slices has 180 calories just in the bread. That is worth about a mile and a half of walking. Skip the bread and you have saved…

I think Chipolte is very good and if I have about 1/3 of one of their bowls that is plenty and leaves enough for two more meals. I used their web site to calculate the calories the last time I was there and it came to over 1,300. I don't remember the details, other than I had added guacamole but I was glad that I did not…

Perhaps the best answer to this post is this one. If you want to read more about BMI check this Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index Short version, BMI is useful for population studies and less useful for individuals. However it is often used by many, including MDs, for individuals because nothing…

I have a runtastic as well. However it is probably my least favorite app and works very hard to sell add-on products. I have their jogging/running version so perhaps the pedometer version is not as irritating.

If all you want to do is keep track of steps I'd just buy another pedometer. I have an Omron HJ720T which can just be put in a pocket so it does not have to be clipped to a belt or waistband. It also keeps track for 30 days and has a program that works on Windows that is interesting to review. If you want to use the phone…

I think that both programs can work but you have to be willing to put in the effort to see the results. When I was logging on WW, I lost; when I stopped I gained. I happen to like the information provided on the MFP logging site better than the points system on WW. My wife prefers the WW approach. It is like your gym…

I have several favorites. They are posted where I can see them throughout the day while at work. Some of the shorter ones are: "I always knew that one day I would take this road. But yesterday I did not know that today would be that day." - Nagarjuna "Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at…