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I would just take it a few lbs at a time and stop when you are happy with your composition. I’m half an inch shorter than you and 138 in my profile pic (have been as low as 120lbs). I actually weigh about the same now as I did when I was 19, but due to body composition changes I am smaller than I was then (size 9 at 19 and…
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Correct. It’s not a myth. However, they mean less than your Total Daily Energy Expenditure which is more than just exercise. You don’t need to worry about burning more than 1200 calories. Your body uses calories 24/7. You burn calories even at rest to keep you breathing, your heart beating and so on (BMR). The majority of…
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How do you determine how much you are eating? If not using a food scale you could easily be eating double what you think you are. https://youtu.be/vjKPIcI51lU Olive oil is 120 calories per tbsp. Forgetting to log things like that adds up very fast.
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The Activity level on MFP is not supposed to include exercise. So pick the activity level that matches what you do at work and log any exercise you do.
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Sounds like the problem lies in that your HR is often elevated throughout the day. That will definitely cause an inflated calorie burn from Fitbit and you should see a difference if you turn it off. It still might overestimate slightly. It is just estimating based on the data it is collecting. For some people it will…
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Yoga to stretch everything back out and maybe a casual walk. Today is my recovery day.
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Sedentary is 3000-5000 steps a day or less. 10000 steps a day is Active. If you increased your activity level on MFP you wouldn’t be seeing such a large adjustment. The fact that you have yourself set as inactive when you are not is why your adjustment is so large. Yes I ate all the calories I was given when my Fitbit was…
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Right now I’m collecting a few days worth of information to send to them.
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I haven’t had any issues with it (at least not that I know of). I maintain slightly higher than most calculators tell me I should. I kept my deficit to no more than 1% body weight loss per week for the majority of my weight loss and lowered to 0.5-1lb per week when I was closer to my goal (last 15lbs). I also had days…
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No. It’s actually a good thing because it helps you keep a consistent deficit. Say you manually log an exercise on MFP for 500 calories. MFP adds that 500 to what it thought you would burn. To make this easy let’s say that is 2000. 2000+500= 2500 calories that MFP thought you burned. Now let’s say your tracker estimates…
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If it helps for comparison I am 5’4.5” and 137lbs. That much exercise would have me around an average TDEE of about 2600-2700 from my Fitbit. That’s if I am understanding correctly and the 10,000 steps doesn’t include steps taken during the workout. If it does than still probably about 2500 at least. I can tell you that…
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The lowest I ever went was 20.3. Not sure if you want to consider that the low end or if your thinking more towards 18.6 BMI. Here’s 20.3 for me: I wasn’t totally happy with my composition here. My butt was extremely flat and I felt that I lacked muscle mass in general. My profile pic is a couple months ago at 23.3.
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Ya I’ve noticed the Apple Watch adjustment is weird. I have no idea where it pulls it’s calories from, but they are always really low. Apples adjustment would have me undereating a lot, because while the watch may say I burned a total of 2497 calories yesterday I only get an additional 172 yesterday and it doesn’t matter…
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Fitbit’s adjustment has nothing to do with your steps. It’s a calorie burn comparison. If you have activities that don’t account for a lot of steps but increase your calorie burn it will increase your adjustment here. Here is an example of how the math works:
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These apps pull the active energy information from Apple Health: Sparkpeople LifeSum LoseIt I went around through different apps to see if it was just MFP. So far I still can’t figure out where MFP is getting its numbers from, but I am talking with them and sending screenshots of what exactly is happening. Hopefully with…
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@iSneakers This is all I get
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I said similar things when I had weight to lose. I wasn’t just overweight; I was obese. It didn’t mean I didn’t want to lose weight. For me it meant I had a desired body composition I was aiming for and I really didn’t know how much it would take to get there. I could be wrong, but I read the OP’s post in a similar way.…
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Depends on what you did, but I don’t think it looks unreasonable. The adjustment isn’t solely based on steps but a calorie burn comparison between what Fitbit had tracked and what MFP thought you would burn. I’m set to Sedentary right now and that means an estimated calorie burn of a measly 1683. Last week I had a day…
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Are you tracking your weight trend since you are weighing Daily? It’s only been 3 weeks, could you be retaining water due to your monthly cycle? I retain water at 2 different points in my cycle (ovulation and period).
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She said in the past she was always slim and she is looking to lose roughly 40 lbs now.
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Typically speaking those are two separate goals that require different paths. Losing fat = Strength Training with progressive overload, adequate protein intake, and a reasonable deficit This helps preserve lean body mass you already have. Cardio is good for your cardiovascular system, but not necessarily for weight loss.…
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Pick a beginners program and if your gym offers a free session with a personal trainer use it to help you with form. This thread has a list of good programs: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10332083/which-lifting-program-is-the-best-for-you/p1
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At my heaviest my goal was to get back to the size I was at 19 (I reached my heaviest weight just before my 22nd birthday).
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Nope. NEAT = Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis or calories you burn outside of exercise MFPS activity level setting is supposed to be decided by your NEAT. So a desk job would be either Sedentary or Lightly Active (depending on how many steps you get during work).
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And how active where you outside of that run and walk? It’s not necessarily that you have a slow metabolism, but that what you are doing the rest of the day that isn’t really all that active. Your NEAT makes up a larger part of your calorie burn than exercise. If your NEAT is closer to Lightly Active or Sedentary that…
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What it means is that MyFitnessPal expected you to burn 299 calories more than what your Fitbit reported. To keep your selected rate of loss, 299 calories was subtracted from your day.
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^ Definitely check for this. I didn’t have it, but it’s possible after any pregnancy and core exercises can make it worse.
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3-4 months after my second c-section I started X-TrainFit at Home. It’s a dvd workout program that emphasizes strength training. A couple months after that I started going to a gym and doing Stronglifts 5x5.
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Just check the website nutrition information. They have included how much a slice should weigh in grams. It will vary depending on crust and size of pizza.
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That’s not working right. Based on the numbers you should be seeing a positive. You should email customer service with that screenshot.
