It seems my forever changing baseline caloroes probably helped to make my weight yo-yo. I started losing some weight when I stopped using MFP calories. When I used my watch, that caused some problems with weight too. However, when I performed better, the calories indicated by the watch went down. When this figure was too high, I frequently adjusted downward. I imagine this helped for better assessment of calories. When I went to MET, my calories burned went down a bit. I also think moving my base down to 2200 helped in the weight loss. As I have said before, I need to be more discaplined and consistent with my calories consumed and burned, and meeting my targets. I need to stick with this approach. I do not know how to determine calories burned on the machines at the fitness center. This is a difficukt to determine variable. However, I have not begun to use the machines to any significant extent.