Angierae75 Member

My doctor says that I am healthy, and that if I want to lose weight, she supports that, but she doesn't push her clients to lose weight unless there is a specific reason they need to, not just general "It's healthier."

Weight loss is not linear. Your weight will bob up and down, but should trend downwards. A two pound gain could be too much sodium the day before you weighed, a big workout the day before you weighed, anything. Don't worry about it and just keep at it!

On the fitbit dashboard (on a computer, I don't know how to do it on the app) click on the wheel in the upper right hand corner for settings. Then click on settings. Then it's down under "preferences".

Even though I could lose 100 pounds, I couldn't sustain at 2# per week. Once I dropped down to 1# per week I was so much happier, and I've been able to stick with it for months.

To use MFP correctly, you need to eat all of the calories it gives you, and then my advice is to eat about half of your exercise calories. Based on your numbers, you only netted 850 calories, which is not nearly enough. You should at _least_ be eating the 1600 it gives you.

People started noticing when I had lost about 7% of my body weight. However, they also knew I was trying to lose weight, so they were more attuned to it. I'm not sure someone who didn't already know I was working on it would even notice at this point.

It can because it knows how fast you're racking up steps. So if you do 100 steps in a minute, it knows you're walking faster than if you did, say 30 steps in a minute.

Actually, if you have Calorie Estimation turned off in your Fitbit account, it won't front load tons and then take them away. It will just give you calories as you earn them. I suggest everyone turn it off so that you don't over eat and then realize you've gone over once it takes the calories back.

MFP is already deducting the 500 calories out of your maintenance. You should be able to eat back your exercise calories and still lose one pound per week (500 calories per day). However, since exercise calories are often inflated, lots of people suggest only eating back half of them.

Put stats in, tell MFP how much you want to lose, set yourself to whatever activity level you think you should be and your Fitbit will tell you if you should be eating more. I have pretty much consistently eaten all the extra calories my Fitbit gives me, and I've been losing fairly steadily at a pound a week, just like I…

I have eaten back almost every single one of the calories that my Fitbit has given me since I got it on September 29th, and I am down about 16-18 pounds. (My goal was one pound per week.) It's pretty accurate, honestly.

My short term goal is to get under 200 by mid-February. I'm bouncing between 202 and 206 right now, so it will just take one good swing down to do it. So close! My long term goal is to lose another 40 after that before my birthday (early October) but I'd be happy if I did it by the end of this year.

Yay! Congrats! I am within about 5 pounds of getting there myself and it's taking FOREVER! Super proud of you.

You have to set your stride length in Fitbit.

Your idea of what "sedentary" might be a bit off. I'm at 7500 right now and I took three 15 minute walks during my work day. If you're getting 10k by doing "barely anything", well, I don't know what your definition of "barely anything" is. Yes, you would be able to eat more. Because you're more active. You don't have to…

Honestly, there's no reason to take your fitbit off for your shower. Just leave it on if you're worried about losing steps. I've showered with my fitbit every single day since I got it in September. It's fine.

Do you have yourself set to sedentary? I find that for me, Fitbit considers sedentary around 2500 steps a day, so anything over that it starts adding. You probably don't have yourself set correctly on MFP for your average activity level.

I could NOT lose weight at 1200 calories because yes, I would binge, or give up because I was *miserable*. At 1500, I'm fine. At 1800 (300 cals in exercise a day) I'm great and don't even feel like I'm depriving myself of anything. I'm losing at a pound a week, which is not as fast as I'd like to be, but any more than that…

As long as you're eating and feeling fine, I wouldn't worry about it. I eat once I get to work, around 9, because if I eat at 7am when I get up, I'm starving later, but I'm usually not too hungry until around 9 or 9:30.

Honestly, for events like that, as long as I don't go over maintenance, I don't worry about it. So right now I'm eating at a 500 calorie deficit, so as long as I don't go 500 calories over on a day, I'm still not going to gain weight. I may lose a little less this week, but a birthday celebration with a friend is worth it…

I pre-log my dinner, and plan out the rest of my food based on that. But dinner is the one meal a day I eat with other people, so I want to make sure I'm able to eat what they're eating, even if it's smaller portions.

I've lost 15# so far doing nothing but walking and logging my food. (And I'm intentionally only losing 1# a week, I could have probably lost more if I'd been willing to eat less.)

I find that I don't gain, but I won't see a loss. So my weight will hold steady when I would have lost, but then the next time I weigh after my period starts (i weigh weekly, so its like the weigh in before my period = same weight as last week, the weigh in after it starts = two weeks worth of loss.)

For something like aqua aerobics I would enter that as an exercise, not via stepcount, because you're doing more than just moving your feet and walking.

I look at it this way: Skinny people have holiday meals, too. The goal is to have meals like that be an "occasional" thing. You can't deny yourself social events and holidays for the rest of your life.

My weight loss has been incredibly successful this time around because my partner and I are both working on it. We've both lost weight over the last 11 weeks and it's so much easier to cook dinner when we're both eating the same things, and neither of us is bringing home snacks.

I lost four pounds the first week I started tracking again (set to 1lb per week loss.) However, in the ten weeks I've been doing this, it's evened out to an average of 1.26#. It will slow down. It's always super fast in the beginning because of water weight.

When the weather is nice, I walk for 45 minutes of my 60 minute lunch. When it gets cold (like now), I take two 15 minute breaks and walk and walk during 10-15 minutes of my lunch.

I'm set to sedentary, but on my days I'm not, so I have a Fitbit Flex and it adds calories if I have a more active day.

Weekly, although since I've noticed that my weight drops go in two week cycles anyway, I am thinking about switching to every other week.