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Originally Posted by Cocosurviving

Went to pdoc today and was weighed. I lost 7lbs. I’m now 242lbs. I’ve lost 21lbs

Nice! Persistence pays off!

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12279 total steps, 5.41 miles for 566 calories according to the watch. I used MMW on one long walk of 6593 steps, 3.39 miles, 3.8 average speed and it logged 391 calories for it. I did another shorter walk without MMW and then some just regular daily walking accounts for the rest.

2094 calories. Seems high for the amount of effort today, but always does to me and is probably fine.

[Tucson]

I had 2084 calories in food. This basically meets my target of 2090. Tomorrow, I will walk four miles for my exersize. During normal daily activities, I have walked 1561 steps. My Garmin app tells me I burned 184 calories when it should be around 75 and probably less. Apparently there is high quality programming here. LOL

Update:

This is a news alert. I just found out that MFP now tells me my dialy avtivities burned 85 calories which is much in line with the steps taken. It goes by calculating how active you were using this steps taken and your selection of activity level set up with MFP. I am talking about selections similar to a “sedentary life style”, and other selections. This only happens when MFP is linked to the associated activity app, and you have checked something similar to “use count of steps” in MFP. So my new target is 2175. However, I think I am going to ignore this for the time being. My original target of 2090 calories should include some walking. This is definitely a nice feature indeed!

PS I think my Garmin activity app is double counting calories that are burned from doing my daily activities.

[Tucson]

I weigh 176. This is seven days in a row. However, I am exersizing every other day. This means I eat much beyond my original target of 2090 due to my exersize on those days. This can be as much as 500 calories more. Since I am eating these extra calories every other day, I am thinking that I may not know how the extra calories are effecting my weight until one more week goes by. What do you think? I know in time I will be exersizing almost every day, which means I will be eating the elevated calorie count every day too.

I also wonder that since I am exersizing three times a week, if I should specify that I am lightly active instead of sedentary? I do nothing else except exersiize. I have no daily activity worth specifying. I am thinking that since my watch does calculate the calories burned for all my exersizing, this will more accurately offset the value I get from specifying a sedentary lifestyle. Now if I was active through the day, like normal people are, such as running errands and working, then maybe I would no longer specify this but something else like lightly active. I think the reason that some online calculators have you select an activity level that includes exersize, is to give you a calories estimate including the exersize. But my watch is doing this for me. Does this make sense?

[99fairies]

I reached my goal of 135. But the last few days I've had to take Zyprexa so I gained some of the weight back. So I am fasting for a few days to take off the extra. I know this is not the healthiest way to do it but I don't give a ****.

[Tucson]

Originally Posted by 99fairies

I reached my goal of 135. But the last few days I've had to take Zyprexa so I gained some of the weight back. So I am fasting for a few days to take off the extra. I know this is not the healthiest way to do it but I don't give a ****.

Sounds good to me. I am not going to tell you otherwise. We all have our different ways to deal with weight loss. It’s whatever works for you. By the way, reaching your goal of 135 is great! Weight gain due to meds is a PITA to deal with.

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Originally Posted by 99fairies

I reached my goal of 135. But the last few days I've had to take Zyprexa so I gained some of the weight back. So I am fasting for a few days to take off the extra. I know this is not the healthiest way to do it but I don't give a ****.

Nice that you made goal. I think drastic adjustments when you are still near goal are less likely to have much impact oh health. It's when you do it several days/weeks that it has impact.

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Originally Posted by Tucson

I weigh 176. This is seven days in a row. However, I am exersizing every other day. This means I eat much beyond my original target of 2090 due to my exersize on those days. This can be as much as 500 calories more. Since I am eating these extra calories every other day, I am thinking that I may not know how the extra calories are effecting my weight until one more week goes by. What do you think? I know in time I will be exersizing almost every day, which means I will be eating the elevated calorie count every day too.

I also wonder that since I am exersizing three times a week, if I should specify that I am lightly active instead of sedentary? I do nothing else except exersiize. I have no daily activity worth specifying. I am thinking that since my watch does calculate the calories burned for all my exersizing, this will more accurately offset the value I get from specifying a sedentary lifestyle. Now if I was active through the day, like normal people are, such as running errands and working, then maybe I would no longer specify this but something else like lightly active. I think the reason that some online calculators have you select an activity level that includes exersize, is to give you a calories estimate including the exersize. But my watch is doing this for me. Does this make sense?

Activity level is supposed to be non exercise daily activity/work. I work an office job, so I am sedentary even though most days I walk 10000+ steps.

Yeah, it can take multiple weeks to know. It's unlikely that either of us is dead on perfect; we will probably start to see some slow creep one way or the other and adjust.

[Tucson]

So far I have walked a total of 10,360 steps. By the end of the day, I do not think it will be much more. The distance traveled on my walking exersize was about 4.6 miles. My average heart rate was 138 bpm, and the peak was 161 bpm. So I have had a really good cardio exersize. I have burned 494 calories on my walk. This makes for a target of 2610 calories. By the end of the day, I will have eaten 2489 calories, which is essentially making my target.

@UpDownAround: Yes, I agree with you on both points. Here is why I am concerned about these details. I spent a chunk of money on my fitness tracker in order to connect up a heart rate chest strap, more accurate steps related to daily activity, and for more accurate calories burned. The watch has been delivering on these requirements so far and more. I am hoping this continues to be the case on calories burned. I want to get my moneys worth out of this thing, or back it goes.

PS MFP assigned a calorie value to everything that is not an exersize, in other words, my daily activities. It is named “Garmin Connect calorie adjustment”. It amounted to 43 calories, so this time I included it on my calories burned calculation.

[Cocosurviving]

MFP calories 1,173. Apple Watch step 2,774. Water intake 50.7oz. Walked my dog a few times today.

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Watch says 15837 steps for 730 calories. I only used MMW for 9500 steps, but it was 5 miles at over 4 mph and it logged 640 calories. Seems kind of high for 75 minutes, but with the additional 6000 or so unlogged steps, I think maybe it's not far off. It was the route with the 216' elevation gain.

2321 calories. Always seems like too much.

I will weigh in the morning. Hopefully it will be another boring one.

[Altarian]

hoping i find the motivation by following this. wife convinced me to join Weight Watchers after getting me a fitbit and she got a yearly to beach body so she has video's to watch and do.

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Report this morning is boring - 160.4 again. This is the goal of maintenance but it has been scary consistent lately.

[Tucson]

I now weigh 174. All three scales gave me this value. I did postpone the soup that I was scheduled to eat yeasterday. I simply could not eat anymore. I am going to have to find higher calorie foods. However, I do not think not eating all my calories yesterday caused this. I ended up only 130 calories short. I will add the soup onto my meal plan for today.

If this weight holds for the next couple days, I am going to have to adjust my calories consumed every day. I frequently have total calories consumed to be about one hundred, and on some days more, short of my daily goal. I will need to eat at or a bit more than my calorie goal from now on.

I also can make adjustments to MFP. I can do this by adjusting the activity level, which will give me a new quota of about 2300 a day. This value would be aside from exersize. Another way is to adjust my weight on MFP. Yet another way is to take advantage of how my watch calculates total calories burned. The wrist monitor takes my original calories used to maintain weight, that of 2090, and adds on to that all calories burned from both daily activity and exersize. I did that yesterday, except I used the smaller value calculated by MFP. However, my watch calculates this value for normal daily activity to be noticeably higher. I would have to add this on as a manual adjustnent to MFP.

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Watch says 13970 steps. I logged about 8000 brisk steps (4.1 miles) in MMW for 509 calories.

Ate 2205 calories. Not the healthiest mix of foods, but plenty of protein.

[Cocosurviving]

MFP calories 1,120. Apple Watch steps 4,994. Water intake 50.7oz. Walked by the lake by my place it was nice.

[Tucson]

I have not done much exersizing today, except some to dial in and check the accuracy of my wrist monitor. I have walked 5,734 steps today. There was one short walk for 0.82 of a mile that burned only 86 calories. MFP is adjusting calories burned through my daily walking activity by 207 calories. So both together makes for a target of 2414 calories. I ate 2389 calories, which meets my target. Actually there are 25 calories remaining to my target. So I may snack on some trail mix. But I am really full after having oatmeal for dinner.

PS My watch is telling me my cardio fitness is Poor. The thing tells me that I have the health of a person well into their 70s. How insulting! I need to get one that tells me nothing but good stuff. So this watch of mine is obviously broken.

[Altarian]

has anyone heard or ever done the blood type diet?

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I didn't do a diet with a name, though I did it the "MyFitnessPal (mfp) way". I use their app and web site to track the calories in everything I eat and compute calories in exercise I do as well as likely bas calories for me. That tells you if you are eating less calories than you burn, in which case you will lose weight. If you aren't, then you adjust portions or make different food choices to get the toal low enough to lose weight. I lost 63 pounds since last summer and now I am using it to try to stay at the same weight.

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Originally Posted by Ignyula

Hello. I'm new to this topic and I need advice. I hang 189. It hugs me very much. I tried different diets, but the weight didn't change much. Just recently I heard about this clinic https://easyweightloss123.com/. Do you have any experience with them?

none. I would only suggest a clinic if referred by a doctor. Ones that advertise to take anyone are for profit enterprises making money on simple things you can do for yourself. I used www.myfitnesspal.com with a free account.