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Do you think that often people in the same conversation are referring to different things - losing weight vs losing fat; exercise for weight loss vs exercise for health benefits; food in terms of calories vs food in terms of nutrients etc?

Welcome @lhapple82‌ great numbers. I'm another who likes stretching, and I try to do Yoga on my rest days. Squats 5x5 @‌ 68lb Bench 5,5,5,6,6 @‌ 68lb Rows 5x5 @ 61lb (or something like that). I am really enjoying playing around with the squats - foot position, ATG every time and a super-deloaded weight has made my…

Phew, cool. It's just in those photos it looked as though she's pulling to her stomach. When I look again, I could convince myself she's going low chest.

So, have I been wrong in thinking we're pulling to our lower chest? Should I have been pulling to stomach all this time?

I have just worn both for a 50 minute yoga class. The chest strap reported about twice as many calories burnt than the Charge HR. Yoga's not exactly cardio, of course, although my heart rate does get high with some of the more rigorous stretches! I'll use both again on Sunday when I do spin.

I'm on day 2 of using both (no syncing). I'll try this for a couple more days and then have a rethink. I think I'd leave MFP but I'm reluctant to leave my run of days and some of the social Groups I'm a member of.

Yes, thank you @heybales I am familiar with the search function, and have indeed being using it a lot.

Have you set your Fitbit goal to lose weight?

I think that the advice is to not log exercise in MFP. Log food in MFP and exercise in FitBit. (Wait for more experienced users to come along and confirm that though! I'm rehearsing what I think I've learned!).

Not too bad this morning, nice and quiet gym with no waiting around. Squat 5x5 @ 62.5lb and very pleased with my new squat form. OHP 5,5,5,4,4 @51.5 lb (I'm determined to make 5x5 within three attempts this time around!). Deadlifts 5 @ 145lb and 3 @ 123lb all playing around with form and a PT helping me out. He said my…

Thanks for replying. Fitbit's database is not great for a UK user. I'm researching to see if there's a way of just adding calories.

Before this disappears from the front page, I'll just give this a bump. The more I read this forum, the more I'm seriously thinking of not syncing and probably even leaving MFP for FitBit.

:( Oh dear. Now I'm not getting this. I should be wearing my FitBit for the first time today, after 283 days on MFP, and I'm keen to get this right.

Oh. How were we supposed to guess that? (Thanks to others who shared though, because I appreciated it).

That was a really helpful post mmerry5 When you say, " Fitbit says oh no, you didn’t burn 2000 today you only burned 1600 so it takes away the 400 extra calories" do you mean FitBit automatically adjusts your day's calorie goal on MFP?

It would be a pleasure, what stats would you like? I reserve the right to refuse some information though :)

And I'm saying, 58cm is pretty slim by most people's standards, so how thin would you like them to be?

I hope you will excuse me butting in with a beginner's question. Doesn't FitBit record your calorie burn for the exercise (via it's HR monitoring)?

Yours are 58cm, mine are 57cm at their widest and yesterday I bought a pair of size 8 (UK) jeans. How small do you want your thighs to be?

You want to loosen them or lose some weight from them? Not sure what you're after.

Today was supposed to be a rest day, but after a day's holiday and shopping at Meadowhall I was really up for the gym before teatime. Squat 5,6,6,7,6 @ 57lb. Really big deload and really good form. So, I'm starting again from here and I'm really happy about it. The PT I don't get on with came over and complimented me on my…

Oh no, sorry to hear that @canadianlbs‌

$5 for a tub of prepared salad?? How much would a lettuce cost?

I lost about 2lb a week, every week, whilst eating takeaway every Saturday night and a chocolate bar every day.

I had a great lift this morning, and a bit of a revelation with squats. I've read people talk about getting low enough for the hamstrings to kind of "twang" you back. PTs have advised me, and said things like, "lower, lower... there you go!" but I've not really felt anything. Last night I did a bit of reading and watching…

I got a member of staff to take a photo of my grip, and I think I can safely say that it's a high bar grip from somebody with small deltoids and who can hold the bar with a very small gap between her hands.

I've read that there's not point in a surplus as small as 200. You just end up spinning your wheels. I've just given up on bulking. I couldn't manage it mentally, and that's after about 3 months of maintaining. I wish you luck!

Really helpful video, thanks for sharing. Give me a few things to think about tomorrow - ankle flexibility, stretching out the calves and feet and also position of hands and elbows. Is it worrying that I don't know whether I do high or low bar? I feel like saying "I do mid-bar". It certainly doesn't touch my neck, but…

I have the polar with chest strap, and I'm very happy with it for counting the calories burned when running, doing spin etc. I'm getting the FitBit Charge HR for all the other features above and beyond this.

I didn't watch episode 2 (started, but it seemed to be repeating the first hour) but did catch episode 3. I think it's a really good programme, because it had a lot of new ideas. I agree with @plantboy2‌ in that there's a risk of excuse-making, but I thought of it more along the lines of providing explanations rather than…