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Gaining/losing muscle
I'm taking part in a local weight loss challenge, and the organizer has a scale that weighs muscle. We started a month ago, then did a check in today. In the last month I've been weightlifting and doing ab exercises. Admittedly not a huge amount, but before we started I was doing nothing. Today the scale showed I lost a…
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Does Fitbit way overestimate calories burned?
I just got a Fitbit last week, synced it, and suddenly my "calories burned" tally is so much higher. Even on days where I do no exercise of any kind. I weighed myself this morning, 5 days after I got it, and there has been no change. Should I be ignoring what Fitbit says, either on days when I don't actually exercise, or…
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Need fitness goal ideas
I'm pretty sedentary, NOT a natural exerciser, but I started a c25k program that I really liked. The problem is that I have one leg shorter than the other and I'm finding the running is really hurting the hip on my longer side. While I like the program, it's not worth an injury, so I'm looking for other ideas. Something…
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Fitbit exercise logging question
I'm new to Fitbit and only slightly less new to MFP. Before I got my One I would log my exercise on MFP by stating what I did and for how long. MFP would give me an approximation of how many calories I burned, so if I did my c25k workout, which is a combo of running and walking, I'd figure out how much total time I spent…
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Mini-goals?
i just started (again) yesterday. I've had an account here for years but this is the first I've really used it, so please forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong place. When I calculated what my goal weight should be I got a little overwhelmed, so a friend of mine suggested I set mini-goals instead. I already know…
