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I am a little puzzled about what to do. I started at 190 which was borderline obese with no particular goal in sight. Over four years, learning a lot along the way, I managed to slowly but surely get down to 150 which is a BMI of 22. I would kind of like to get down to 147 which is smack in the middle of WHO's "normal…

Just tried it today. Walking was no problem but I really need to run. Even running slow (5 mph) my eyeballs bounce up and down 8 cm 2½ times every second. Horribly slow going. I switched by to my old standby. Episodes of Fringe downloaded to my Kindle Fire. Amazing how much easier it is to watch video than read text. I do…

Read this guy's work and you will never trust anybody's or any machine's bodyfat percentage again! http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/index.php/free-content/free-content/volume-1-issue-3-the-pitfalls-of-body-fat-measurement-parts-1-and-2/the-pitfalls-of-body-fat-measurement-part-1/

Centrum Silver, Glucosamine Sulfate with MSM and Chondroitin. I eat VERY healthy and probably don't need the vitamins but I know they won't hurt me so why not.

Nothing complicated about this. Of course you are burning less calories. http://www.calories-calculator.net/Calories_Burned_By_Heart_Rate.html

Thanks for everybody's input. After doing a bit more research it seems that someone has come to the ill founded conclusion that just because we all loose muscle cells as we age, the "ideal" sexagenarian male has more than 19% body fat (25% for you old ladies :). They forgot the part about making the muscle cells we have…

This is the only type of argument I can find in favor of targeting a higher fat percentage when you are older: "If you get a disease or infection that causes muscle wasting," Rubenstein warns, "being too thin could be dangerous." Not from all that credible of a source—"Irv Rubenstein, Ph.D., exercise physiologist and…

I'm 5' 9" and agree with all of you but mostly with futuresize 8. Just because the average old person is fatter than than the average young person does not make being fatter when you are older ideal or a worthy goal. After all, the average adult in the US is borderline obese. That does not make being overweight something…

Unplanned food is almost always bad almost no matter what it is. Face it. Unplanned food is very rarely steamed broccoli.

First of all, you used the word journey. That is what it is—not a sprint. Thinking in terms of a couple of years will be more likely to get it off and keep it there than a quick 10 lb. diet. Second, fitness is important for good health but exercise is a pretty dull tool of weight loss if that is your primary goal. For…

It is an interesting tool but seems to be oriented towards a temporary state of calorie consumption commonly called a DIET. Of course, everyone "knows" that diets don't work. You will loose weight if you stick to one but, if you go off your diet (before or after reaching your goal) and put it back on, you are just teaching…

Half of a baked spaghetti squash filled with turkey taco meat and topped with shredded Mexican cheese. 485 calories and very filling.

I think the best idea is to figure out what your maintenance intake is at your goal weight, Start eating that today and keep eating it for most of the rest of your life.

That's the REAL trick isn't it.

Not necessarily. That would depend on what you weigh now, how old you are and how active. It makes no sense whatsoever that AFTER losing weight, your target would go up. Should be the opposite. The less you weigh, the less you can eat either to maintain that weight or loose more. For example, a 300 lb., 5' 5", 40 year old…

If you are still overweight, don't sweat it. You have plenty of energy stores that will prevent short-term energy shortages. The trick is what to do when the 2,000 are already down the hatch and you are starving. Also remember that all the talk about arresting your metabolism by putting it in "starvation mode" is 95% bunk.

Fitness is important. I work out six days a week and am at my weight goal. Having said that, the MOST important thing is calorie reduction and the second most important thing is not sitting still unless you are sleeping. Throw the TV out the window and walk when you run out of other things to do.

The thing is that the web is supposed to make this stuff easier. I did go ahead and correct that little recipe. It took about 20 minutes instead if 2. So really there is a problem and an opportunity here. The problem is that the data is often very poor and the units of measure are not at all standardized. The opportunity…

I penned this little complaint/suggestion over two years ago. Very little, if any, progress has been made since then. Certainly MFP should understand that a foundation of weight loss is healthy eating and that healthy eating begins with preparing your own meals preferably from whole foods. The recipe importer is nice in…

You will probably find this interesting: http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(15)00350-2

I do a 24 hour fast two or three times per month—usually after a day or two or three of 3,000 calorie days. It is really not so difficult. I think I would find it more difficult to try to get by on 1000 calories than none at all. Kkenseth is right. Starvation mode takes two to three days to kick in and only results in a…

I use a Withings WIFI scale and gave found it to be highly accurate and repeatable.

Attempting to do this math to six decimal points of precision is a fools errand. BMR is a guess. TDEE is a guess. Calorie consumption is a guess. Useful? You bet. Worth considering the contribution of TEF? Absolutely not. After all, it takes a few thousand calories over or under to even move the needle. My calculated MSJ…

Did you link your jawbone account with MFP? That integration has been working for more than a year now.

If anyone is still having problems getting their VivoXXXX to synch with MFP, try this: https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?197407-Vivofit-My-Fitness-Pal&p=499520#post499520 Works every time.

I've had the Loop since Christmas and the Vivofit since March 1. I wore them both through June. The Loop is now retired to a junk drawer. The Vivofit was superior in practically every respect before MFP integration. Once they had that it was game over.

hmf7997, your question is a little unclear but let me give it a shot. MFP is optimized for recording what you eat. The Vivofit and Garmin Connect are optimized for recording what you burn. Once you have linked the two together you can look either place to see how you are doing on balance. MFP tells Garmin what you ate and…

This feature—Auto Activity Detection— was just activated in Garmin Connect two days ago even though the switch has been on the site since early March. First of all, you have to turn it on and then sync your band. Second, it won't record pure walking. You have to run constantly or do run/walk intervals that are mostly…

Actually Activities are not ignored. For example, yesterday my only exercise was a cycling Activity and those calores came into GC as Active and moved over to MFP perfectly. What nobody will see until the July update is FR or Edge data. Beginning with that update, the Forerunner and Edge data will replace Vivofit data (HRM…

You have been invited staceyso. What was chasing you around your house? 4.8 Mph is a pretty good clip :). For now, there is no way to calibrate distance. Garmin just assigns you an undisclosed value (or range of values) depending on your height. This is supposedly on their list but it's a looong list and the Kansas Code…