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MinnieInMaine is right. I've used a Polar F7 model for upwards of 8 months before switching to a BodyMedia Link for a year. With my HRM, the more I worked out, the more weight I gained because I was eating back all my HRM-estimated exercise calories and primarily doing circuit weight training workouts and Zumba/Hip Hop…

Well, I could probably post progress pics by now... but they're definitely in the way WRONG direction. EEK. I'm around 31-32% using the online (tape measure) Home Body Fat Test. I'll try to post pics soon. I'm too embarrassed to go get calipered right now. Things kinda went downhill once I decided I'd be better off without…

Looks like a neat idea :) I'm a SAHM, so the more I have to *think* when I'm surveying the fridge, the higher the odds are that I'll over-eat.

LOL, can I have some? Mine are about 15", I don't wear boots much, but with 24" thighs (at the widest), I feel like I'm teetering on a pair of isosceles triangles

DITTO! :D

Why? Polar FT7s have up to 33% inaccuracies in females (<8% for males) when tested against state-of-the-art New Leaf. Besides, Garmin has a couple models designed to work WITH BodyMedia. That's my next purchase I think :D On another note, with the negative adjustments being introduced, I'm going to start accepting the…

On a positive note: I've consistently dropped about .2lbs A DAY since I started with the BodyMedia. I've been only logging the BodyMedia burns, just noting the bpm info from the HRM, and rejecting the synced BodyMedia "adjustments" in MFP. Working backward from my last known body-fat % on my current weight using…

and the super-fun comparison wearing both during my workout today: BodyMedia said I burned 490 calories and my HRM said 629 calories, and given my recent realization that eating back all my (HRM) calories was the problem, I'll probably go with BodyMedia's readings from here on out. At least I was only overestimating by…

Just picked up my BodyMedia Fit Link at Best Buy :D

Even with the BodyMedia Link model (not the Core)??? It seems the consensus is that I'll still want to rely on my HRM during workouts (though I want to limit my "eat back" calories to no more than 300 daily). Those that use both: do you wear both during the workout (not necessarily to add them together, but maybe average…

This is awesome!!

Ok, so I just sat down and used my avg. net column and my weekly calories burned column to figure out both my average weekly gross intake and the amount that gross intake is above my BMR in each of my 5 categories wks w/ >2lbs loss: 1904 gross, +298 KM BMR wks w/ >0.5lb loss: 1936 gross, +337 KM BMR wks @ maintenance or…

Interesting read! I bookmarked it. Amazing what I miss by dropping of the boards for a year! However, his 20% off TDEE rule puts me around 1850 net, which, results-wise for me looking back at 82 weeks of data was my actual "maintenance". But I have to wonder how much of that data was skewed by my "eating back" ALL my…

Actually, I was worrying myself sick and being stressed over what I didn't know. It felt like guessing and psuedoscience. Now that I do, I feel like I can relax. Adjusted my net to 100 over my KM BMR, adjusted my macros best I could to 50%c/20%p/30%f, now I just gotta figure out how I'm going to go about logging/only…

Ok... so I sat down for the better part of the past 8 hours and geeked out on Excel to figure out W....in T......F..... was going on with my body. 82 total weeks of logging, of which 52 had average weigh-ins annotated and thus "usable data". I tracked: average weekly net calories change in net calories from the previous…

My problem seems to be that I have no freaking clue what my "maintenance" is, so I can't figure where I need to be at to lose weight. I've lost weight at a 1600 net, but I've gained weight there too. I'm hoping one of the 24-7 wear devices will help me.

Only one week and I've been SOOOOOO slacking :(

I actually tried to restart the old "swimsuit competition" thread about 2-3 weeks ago, so I DO have a set of start pics and another set taken yesterday for comparison, though I don't think I could call it "progress" as the scale and some measurements went up (darn ToM, plus some skipping the gym). More motivation to do…

Lol, guess I have no choice but to be in since I tried to restart last year's. Ugh... will be seriously pounding the lemon water... stupid ToM is going to be in play for the first 3-4 of these :( But why stop in the fall? Stopping in the fall is what led me to where I'm at now! :( I say run it indefinitely. Just think…

I take it the mods pulled it already? Joke thread?

No problem :) Just once a month whenever you're ready on a regular basis. Last year I think they always did the 1st, but uh... yeah, lately I've tended to carry the extra 2-4lbs of ToM weight at that time, so I already went ahead and going to stick with mid-month for me, personally. Plus if we stagger them, the thread…

HERE'S TO REVIVING A DEAD THREAD, WELL... BECAUSE EVER SINCE IT DIED OUT, I'VE LET MYSELF GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :( Seriously, this thread was the ONLY FREAKING THING that worked for me. I tried joining various challenge groups, etc. to no avail. Sure, scale numbers are one thing and you can have really…

Your rib bones will NOT shrink... Unless you're committed to professional corset wearing 23hrs a day! Even then it'll be at least 8 months before you see movement and years before that movement is permanent. Some "tightlacers" go to the extreme of having their floating ribs surgically removed but that leaves your kidneys…

154.8. I call it the stress-bomb diet.

156.0 today, yay!

Eek! At first I thought I hadn't checked back in 2 weeks, but I wasn't sure where my 11/3 weigh-in applied. When I reset my cals to 2k I dropped for 4 days straight, then WHAM! Baby-daddy stress-bomb. I found out that he got out of his steady-income Army job several months ago and didn't tell me, or CSE (who I applied for…

*sigh* I've been a total recluse. I got REALLY REALLY down for awhile because my scale numbers were so crazy, then I took my "eat more to lose" theory a smidge too far (like past what in hindsight is "maintenance") and started gaining *eek!*. I'm sorry ladies, it just got incredibly depressing seeing you all make strides…

YES! I am an Excel Queen Bee in remission! My hubby is going to be so thrilled I have a new reason to be hooked! I'll PM you an email you can send to, THANKS!

I've learned that a casual observation post can go horribly wrong based on the first response, then all subsequent posters follow suit, picking up pitchforks and torches and throwing flames. I also learned that that situation can be totally salvaged with a friend like FearAnLoathing to help organize a formal witch-burning…

KLi531: It only goes back about 90 days, so what you're seeing is a break mid-August due to surgery (mommy makeover, lucky lucky me) followed by my easing back into things, a brief break corresponding with MFP week 24 (post-op week 7) where I had a healing complication. Every other day or 2-4x/wk was my usual pre-op which…