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I've never used a fitbit with HR functionality because my resting and exercising heart rate is super high. But the flex and Alta have both been very accurate for me, about 50 calories under my actual burn daily, but that's a tiny percentage

Don't expect to do much your first time. Your trainer will need to use almost a whole session to understand you and your goals before they start setting you any exercise. You should also set your expectations out for them - do you want friendly encouragement or someone to"shout"at you? Do you want them to help with weights…

I'm 235 so a bit heavier than you but I aim for 1800-2000 most days. 1400 sounds very low unless you're genuinely sedentary, or you're adding your exercise separately and eating the extra calories back

Lightly active, log your workouts separately (eat back 50-75% of those calories based on how accurate the calories mfp gives you look) and adjust as necessary in a few weeks.

I think planned maintenance periods are really useful, but there are a few downsides. If you have a big deficit, you suddenly have a LOT more calories to play with, which sounds great, but I find I have to cut my exercise a bit or I'm eating just to hit my higher calorie limit, which also means my macros are a bit off.…

Anorexia doesn't just affect slim people. In fact, with all the pressure on overweight people to lose it, I wouldn't be surprised if it affects more overweight/obese people than already slim - it's just ignorance like this that leads to it going undiagnosed. You can be 400lbs and anorexic, all it means is that you…

Stop telling yourself tomorrow and start logging properly and making good choices again now. Learn from this time and next holiday, consider doing a maintenance week: either aim to average your maintenance over the week to allow one or two crazy days or eat at maintenance every day. I did this for the last 2 weeks and…

For me it's the presumption behind it. Nobody has a right to my stuff. Whether they ask, or just lean over and take it, the expectation is that I'll let them have it. It's like they think they're entitled to it. If it was a partner, as in the OP's case, then even though they probably do have a right to some of my stuff,…

Doesn't sound mean at all. I measure my food for a reason. Now refusing to cook for my family when I'm cooking for myself anyway, or taking all the leftovers without offering it round would be mean. But eating my portion that I've weighed and is smaller than everyone else's anyway? Nope. Not mean.

I try to plan for any splurges, but if something came up unexpectedly (my family have a habit of changing evening meal plans with little warning) I'd reduce my calories over the next day or two to make up for it. But I can't see myself unexpectedly eating 1000 calories over, because I plan well enough that I wouldn't make…

I don't think it's cheating. I think eating over maintenance is "cheating" but I wouldn't do it unless I'd compensated with lower calories on the surrounding days. I'm planning to eat at maintenance over Easter (10-23 April) as I also have 2 family birthdays at this time, and I will hopefully have just reached a milestone…

OP, I agree with others, you look great and ready for maintenance! You can always add a deficit in again later if your skin doesn't tighten much and you still think there could be fat to lose.

I suffered with shin splints on and off for the last couple of years. Nearly always got them when running after successfully completing C25K 2years ago and then putting a lot of weight (back) on. But I also get them from walking uphill, too quickly, or too stridefully (Idc if that's not a word). I tried changing my shoes…

I'm 5'2. SW 270, CW 245 and GW is 130 but I'm going to see what that looks like when I get there and may well revise my target down! It's nice to see so many shorties who are at the weights that I think "OMG I'll never be that low", because it tells me it really can happen. I'm not going to look like a waif if I get below…

For me an occasional treat is something I have maybe twice a month. Cocktails with a friend; dinner AND dessert eating out. It's the sort of thing that just isn't worth having any more frequently, and I'll "save up" calories a few days beforehand to allow myself to indulge. But I have things that others might consider…

Did you log a separate workout that day as well or is it just your 12000 steps? The figures don't look that high to me if you also logged about 250-400cals for a workout on top of the steps. I'm 5'2 245lbs and I've lost 25lbs so far trusting what fitbit says. It's not unusual for me to have 3200+ cals out with a similar…

That's awesome! I've got my own spreadsheet I built that tells me how close my Fitbit is to my true burns, but this makes it so much clearer! Apparently Fitbit underestimates my cals outby about 100 cals per day. Since that's based on my trending weight, I imagine my own calculations would come up with something similar,…

I'm trying to avoid food-related goals, but sometimes it's hard to think of something! I had a microfibre gym towel for my first stone (14lbs) lost. I've already bought my Fitbit Alta for my second stone, which I should reach in the next couple of weeks. 3 will be one or two pretty straps for the Fitbit. 4 is currently…

I don't log anything (drinks) with less than about 10cals per serving. I log 100-200ml milk first thing to cover my coffees during the day, and I log anything like fruit juice, lattes, alcohol etc. But most of what I drink is water, coffee, fruit/herbal teas or diet soda. So I feel like the effort expended logging calories…

If you pre-log, you'll be red most of the day anyway. I usually end up green around dinnertime and yellow by the time I go to bed, but I have a 750cal deficit and plenty of space to be under that limit (I've got over 100lb to lose). The zone is based on what you should have eaten by that point in the day to be on track to…

I have about 300-450 for breakfast, 500-700 for lunch (often includes a snack that I actually eat later) and at the weekend I usually combine the two for about 800-1000. Dinner is about 500-700 in the week and up to 1000 at the weekend. As soon as I decided to stop being a snack person my life got so much easier

Sainsburys, matalan, tesco. M and s is good for sports bras but I haven't looked at their other sportswear Until you get beyond about a size 22 it's not toooo difficult.

I'm an office worker and I recently changed mfp settings from sedentary to active (1800-2240cals) and I have yet to have a negative adjustment from my fitbit. I am only sedentary if I don't go to work and I don't walk the dog. As soon as I've got to go to the office or take the dog out, I'm straight into lightly active or…

I did a recipe builder entry in like 2 minutes. If you just want to quick add, I did a3-egg mix with 275g plain flour and 415ml milk (I use mugs to roughly measure then weigh the resulting amount!) And including some oil it came to roughly 150cals per pancake, with that mixture making 10 pancakes

My sister asked me Friday if I could have a cheat day so we could get pizza. I said I didn't need a cheat day, I ate a smaller lunch and had plenty of calories left in my budget for a 777cal pizza and then half a tub of ben and Jerry's on top. The only time I would eat whatever without logging as accurately as possible is…

I feel kinda nauseous. I used to think that if I felt a sort of hole above my stomach, that meant I was hungry but I think that might have been carbs talking. If I eat a lot of them before bed, I wake up feeling like it, usually the more i'd eaten, the hungrier I'd feel the next morning. Now I know that it's the almost…

If Fitbit already credited you some calories for the time you were working out, and you add for example 250 calories through MFP, you'll probably see a -250 calorie adjustment from Fitbit, because otherwise you get Fitbit's activity credit AND MFP's. After a while, the Fitbit negative adjustment should decrease, but unless…

I agree with SLLeask. Without any more context to your post, it sounds like your parents didn't think you wanted any help and didn't want to butt in. Unless your parents have previously tried to help but were useless, I'd ask them to give you some guidance. They're experts in what you're trying to do. Please also re-think…

I'm eating 1800-2200 (based on the day's activity and any socialising) per day. 5'2 SW 270lb, CW 260lb - GW 140 I'm not planning to drop my target intake below 1800 unless my weight loss stalls for at least a month, and that's unlikely to happen for a long time given my CW, based on the fact that the TDEE for my goal…

If it was included, I hope it would be as a separate column, not just replacing carbs. Because apparently the UK and some other countries already discount fiber from the carbs totals on packaging anyway and if you ate a lot of fiber, you might end up accidentally discounting a shedload of calories