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Depends on how you want to look at it. I was my heaviest in Jan 2012 at 260lbs. I hit my lowest weight of 120 in April 2016. It did take me about a year to lose the last 15 lbs. I was pregnant with my second at the end of 2013 and into 2014. So there is about 9 months where I gained instead of losing. So let’s see that…
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Apple Watch and MFP do not play nice with each other. Apple doesn’t send MFP the correct information for the adjustment to work correctly. You can see what your watch is estimating your TDEE to be by going to the Activity app on your phone. If you swipe left on the Move section it will tell you your current active calories…
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That seems really low for 10,000 steps. In comparison 10,000 steps for me usually gets me a 200-300 at least from Fitbit. For me though Fitbit’s estimate of my TDEE was pretty close to accurate and it adjusted MFP accordingly. Apple Watch gives me a similar TDEE estimate, but the adjustments on MFP don’t match it. If I ate…
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True, but it’s also important to note that not all Apples workout options sync over. Up until this past Tuesday if I marked anything as cross training or core training they wouldn’t show up on MFP and my regular adjustment wouldn’t account for them. For some reason on Tuesday I started seeing those come over as “Apple…
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I also switched from Fitbit to Apple. Apple and MFP don’t play nice together. Apple will send over some of it’s workout logs, but not all. It also doesn’t send MFP your Total Daily calories burned or even your Total Active calories. I have yet to figure out where it comes up with the calories in the adjustment section. So…
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It won’t make a difference. Apple and MFP don’t play nice with each other. Some people have said they had success by unlinking Apple Watch from MFP and linking Apple to Pacer which they link to MFP. I personally couldn’t get it to work that way. Technically the adjustment is supposed to be: Total Calorie Burn from tracker…
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I am aiming for 0.5lb per week. Having a larger deficit is harder for me to sustain at this point. The recommendations for sustainability are: 0.5lb per week loss if less than 25lbs to lose 1lb per week loss if 25-50lbs to lose 1.5lb per week loss if 50-75lbs to lose 2lbs per week loss if 75+lbs to lose National Institute…
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I actually own both an Apple Watch and a Fitbit. Both give me similar TDEE estimates and I have had the Fitbit long enough that I know it’s TDEE estimate is pretty close to my actual TDEE. Now here’s the thing where things get bizarre. I will get more calories with my Fitbit linked to MFP than I will with my Apple Watch. I…
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I’ll just say it doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to. I switched from Fitbit to Apple Watch. Both devices give me similar TDEE estimates and based on my data Fitbit was close to my actual TDEE. Apple Watch gives me little to no adjustment regardless of activity level setting. Examples: Jan 24 Apple Watch Active Calories…
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Sounds fine to me. Try it for a few weeks and see what happens. I’m 5’4.5” and lose weight eating around 2000 calories (Total not net). Here recently I dropped to averaging 1600, because I couldn’t exercise and my weight loss sped a bit despite me being a couch potato (my trend weight dropped 4.6lbs in 28 days). I was…
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I’ve actually started using another app because of this. My total calorie burned from Apple Watch is similar to what my old Fitbit used to tell me and that was accurate for me. However MFP is not pulling accurate data from Apple and as a result I would be undereating if I just went with what MFP said now (some days by a…
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If you don’t change anything about your activity, than yes. Your body won’t use as much energy to do the same tasks when it’s lighter. Alternatively you can increase your activity to balance it out some. The more active you are the more you can eat and still lose. I personally chose to go from being Sedentary to being…
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Find a workout you enjoy. If you enjoy your workout you will look forward to doing it. I just took about 2 weeks off from exercise (doctors orders), but while the break was nice I also couldn’t wait to workout again. If I don’t like the workout, I have a hard time convincing myself to do it.
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The move goal is your activity calories. Apple splits up the calories burned between Active calories and Resting calories. The combination of the two is your estimated TDEE. What you described sounds like a very active day. And 10,000 steps is generally considered to be Active. The goal is likely set by your stats and will…
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I think you might be over thinking things here. Vegetables even though they don’t have a label do have standard nutrition information that easily available. All you would have needed to know was the vegetables and if any oil or butter was used to cook them. That information alone can get you a rough estimate on the…
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MFP and Apple don’t play well together. I switched from Fitbit to Apple Watch as well. I don’t know where they come up with the calories burned for Apple, but it doesn’t make sense and doesn’t match the information in the Health app. I have been logging in another app for this very reason. A bunch of other calorie counting…
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I eat when I am hungry. Some mornings this means I drink a cup of coffee at 5 am and don’t eat until 9-10am. Other mornings I might actually be hungry at 6 or 7am. Sometimes this is tied to when my last meal/snack was the night before. If I stopped eating at 6pm than I am more likely to want breakfast, but if the last…
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I have one and so far I love it. I actually got it because of all the problems I had with my Fitbit Ionic (out of all the Fitbit’s I’ve owned this one has been the worst) and the fact that Fitbit CS wouldn’t do anything about the issues I was having. One of the issues with my Ionic was fixed with a Firmware update 11…
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There’s actually quite a few options. Phone Apps: Keep Trainer (not sure if it’s on Android) 30 Day Fitness Challenge (there are free and paid versions) Workout for Women Online: Fitnessblender Pinterest has tons of body weight workouts
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The newer ones have a lot of issues. My Ionic had an issue with reporting distance travelled for 11 months (firmware update last month fixed it). The smart watch apps don’t like to work and require I reset it constantly. It recently stopped syncing and it took 3 factory resets to get it to work again. It even got stuck…
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The newest models from Fitbit seem to be plagued with issues. Not sure if they are going to sort them out or not. They have been very slow to fix issues with the Ionic (some issues took them a year to fix and others still haven’t been addressed). I have tried a bunch of different devices over the years. You might want to…
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I used a different calculator and got this for you: Scooby TDEE = 1690 20% Deficit = 1352 Projected weight loss = 0.7lbs per week http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/#charts FitnessFrog TDEE = 1690 http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html/ IIFYM Recommends 1486 based on your stats (I guessed at…
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The adjustments are typically based on total calories burned; not step related. Synced Device TDEE - MFP estimated burn = adjustment MFP estimates your calories burned without exercise. When you log exercise those extra calories get added to the original estimate. If your calories burned on MFP are higher than what your…
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Some things to try: Log out and back in Recalculate your calorie goal making sure all your stats are correct If that doesn’t fix it. Try recalculating the goal from the website instead of through the app.
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How much are you eating? Did you increase your intake at all with the increased activity? Are you getting enough protein?
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Does the machine take weight or anything like that into account? MFP estimate is based off your stats and the MET values for the exercise.
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I have the Ionic and the smart watch features only work sometimes. I actually just had a week where it wouldn’t sync right and had to factory reset it 3x to get it to sync again and the first reset it actually got stuck with a red x on the screen (which I had to figure out how to get rid of on my own b/c Fitbit CS wasn’t…
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You might see a small gain the first day or two. Don’t panic. It’s from increased carbs/sodium/food in your body and only temporary.
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Based on the rate you have been losing at, you could add about 400 calories a day and still see about 2lbs per week loss for awhile (eventually it will slow as your body gets smaller). If you set your activity level to active on MFP it should add about 400 calories for you.
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Her current rate of loss compared with her current intake support what the tracker is saying. She is eating 1500-1600 calories and has lost 17 lbs in the 6 weeks she has been using MFP. That translates to an average loss of 2.8 lbs per week which if she is right about her intake means she maintains around 2900-3000…
