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Calories burned - Figuring out what to believe
I just finished my first workout with my new Polar FT7 Heart Rate Monitor. According to it, I burned 895 Calories walking 5 miles at a 4 MPH pace on a 5% incline. The MFP database tells me that effort was only good for 715 calories. The difference between my HRM and MFP has me wondering which is closer to the truth. I was…
Six months and 75 pounds later - pictures
I started using MyFitnessPal in May 2011. I weighed about 250 pounds. Over the course of six months I was able to drop 75 pounds by sticking to the auto-calculated "2 pounds per week" in the Goals section. Due to a knee injury many years ago I didn't do any running, just walking on a treadmill. I started out at 3 mph,…

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