[Tucson]

I weigh 175 pounds right now. My day of exersize has been interesting. The first leg of my walk was the best that I have had so far. I sustained what my watch states as a very very brisk pace for over to two miles. My average heart rate was 142 bpm, with a peak of 162 bpm. My average speed was 4.1 mph, with a top speed of 4.6 mph. My pace was about 14:30 minutes a mile. All of these stats make new records for myself. For instance, I thought it would take allot more time before I end up with less that a fifteen minute mile. My other leg of over two miles was pretty good too, but I was not pushing myself no where near as much. There was an additional short walk for a half a mile that burned 36 calories.

I have walked a total of about 5.2 miles for my entire exersize for the day, which burned 538 calories. I have walked a total of 12,006 steps so far today. MFP has assessed my steps aside from my exersizes to be 163 calories so far. So all of this means that I now have a calorie target of 2791 calories. This may go up a bit since MFP takes a guess on its calorie adjustment for steps outside of exersize, which then becomes more accurate by the end of the day. My complete menu for the day comes out so far to be 200 calories short. So I will have to adjust it for this amount of additional calories. I am surprised to find an interesting TJs meal in my freezer. So I will see if this does the trick.

God I like this watch! With the many measures it provides, I can see them slowly changing to tell me that I am becoming healthier. It is providing instant feedback to me. This is a really nice feeling. Using it this way, I am providing myself challenges. I am going to start exersizing every day. However, I will alternate between days of greater than four miles with those of one mile, which is just a few times around the townhome complex. For my accomplishment, I will soon treat myself to that terrific tastey hot chocolate at the local IHOP.

[Tucson]

Originally Posted by Altarian

has anyone heard or ever done the blood type diet?

What is this type of diet? I loved Ken it up and this sounds interesting to me. Have you or do you know anyone who has tried this diet?

[Tucson]

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?

I second what UpDownAround said about MyFitnessPal. I think the goal of different diets is to make eating less and possibly at the same time exersizing more to be attractive to others. Unless you are a person that has steel-like discapline, you may only lose a couple pounds a week. This is IMHO a healthy way to lose weight. As an exception to regular dieting, I like Weight Watchers because everyone there shares their successes and temporary failures. In this way, they provide emotional support, which I can see that many need in order to motivate themselves to follow the plan.

FWIW

[Tucson]

Originally Posted by Cocosurviving

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

Nice to see your posts here every day. I wish others would come to this thread too.

[UpDownAround]

15140 steps total, about 9500 logged with MMW for 567 calories. The logged walks totalled about 5 miles averaging over 4 mph with over 200' total elevation gain.

Ate 2267 calories, which as always, seems like too much. I will weigh in the morning. I keep expecting to see a bounce but it has stayed dead level lately. Maybe tomorrow will be different...

[Tucson]

I am finding the adjustment that MFP provides for the calories burned not including exersize is still too high, even though it is a fraction of what my watch indicates. I did a couple calculations to confirm this. I thought the value earlier provided by MFP was high enough, but even though not many additional steps were totalled, this adjustment increased allot more. I expected this to happen but not by this amount. So I will take that current adjustment and use 50% of its value. This is 125 calories. So the new target considering all of this is 2750 calories. I have had about 2600 calories so far. So there is 150 to go. I am very full right now. So I will see what I can do before bedtime. Maybe get a small hot chocolate from the Circle K next door? Probably too many calories.

[UpDownAround]

The real barometer in how the estimates are working out is the scale trend. I am 159.8 this morning, yet another weigh in within a half pound of 160. Given my odd way of deciding how much walking to log, this is surprising. I just turn mmw on/off to capture about 2/3 of my walking, though if I had a day of little walking I probably won't turn it on at all.

[UpDownAround]

21,200 steps. Somewhere around 14,000 logged for 836 calories. Always seems like too much to me.

2519 calories consumed. That seems crazy high. Hopefully I will get out and paddle 2 or 3 hours tomorrow although if the numbers are right I burned it off today. My first walk was 3.2 miles with an average speed of 4.4 mph in 44 minutes, so a 5k time would have been 42 or 43 minutes; not bad for walking. I think that was aerobic. Maybe I really did burn 2500 today.

[Tucson]

My weight is 176 today. I ate 1926 calories. I had TJs scallion pancakes which are essentially potatoe pancakes with vegetables. So after eating two, I decided to make my own recipe for potatoe pancakes with vegetables. After allot of trial and error, I was successful. The problem is I was not carefully paying attention to the amount of ingredients used. So I have approximated this by finding potatoe pancakes on MFP and multiplied it accordingly to get the actual calories in each pancake, counting the butter and olive oil separately. This calorie count should be close.

So I did not exersize today when I wanted to. I was too caught up with what I was doing in the kitchen. I was going to walk a mile or so, keeping the serious exersizing to every other day. Oh well. What is interesting is that MFP deducted calories for daily activity. I suspect the 2086 calories for maintenance must already include some walking. This makes sense. But it was only 86 calories. Strange.

[Tucson]

I am just barely 175. Just 0.1 of a pound less would make it 174. It looks like the extra calories I have been eating so far has not caused me to gain weight. Now I have been trying to keep my calories consumed to be a little greater than my quota for the day. Yesterday came a bit short but by less than 100. I want to do better than this. I have trail mix which could of done the job. I am going to walk four miles today. I am also going grocery shopping, so I will pick out a couple things with more calories. I want to try to stay away from the high calorie desserts. A pizza that is on sale may help. That would give me at least three meals.

[UpDownAround]

Watch says 20,527 steps, but many were paddle strokes that throws its calculations off. I logged an hour of pretty strenuous paddling and MMW's sibling MMF (MapMyFitness) gave me over 500 calories for it. I also logged 5 miles of walking at 3.8 mph and MMW gave me another 500+ for that. I am not sure I believe these numbers. I walked another 3 miles or so unlogged.

Right now, I am at 2378 calories. I might add an apple at around 60 calories in a few minutes. mfp says I am still 375 short right now. I will weigh in the morning.

EDIT - Had the apple. 62 calories, finished the day at 2440.

[Cocosurviving]

MFP calories 1,094. Apple Watch steps 4,999. Water intake 50.7oz. Me and my daughter walked our dog around our apartment complex.

[Tucson]

I have taken a total of 10,483 steps today. I have walked 4.26 miles burning up 460 calories. On my first two mile leg, which was my best for the day, I took less than 15 minutes to go each mile. My average heart rate was 152 bpm peaking at 167 bpm. My average speed was at least 3.8 mph, with going 5.2 mph in one short segment. I got to the point of starting to run. My goal is to be able to run the same route.

So I had an incredible workout for today. I still do not understand how all of this was possible. I will see if I end up getting consistent results for my next exercise day. I am using a chest strap for heart rate, so that should be accurate. I was wet with sweat and exhausted by the end, both of which has not happened to me before. Hours later I am still recovering from my exercise. My legs ache. So something new happened here.

Anyways, including my calories burned with half of the MPF adjustment for daily activity, comes to a goal of 2729 calories. I have consumed 2655 calories. I will meet this goal by eating some additional trail mix.

I am thinking of dropping the adjustment MFP makes to the target calorie count. I will take my resting calories computed by my wrist monitor’s app to calculate what part of the 2090 base line is calories from daily activity. If the adjustment made by MFP is greater than this, then I will start including more calories that makes up my target calorie count that includes exersize.

[Altarian]

Originally Posted by Tucson

What is this type of diet? I loved Ken it up and this sounds interesting to me. Have you or do you know anyone who has tried this diet?

I don't and dont' know anyone who has. It's this theory that there are certain types of food that can and can't be processed by different blood types. for example my wife is basicly vegan or very little meat while i'm mostly meat and avoid things like broccoli and cabbage.
was just wondering if anyone knew anything about it. not going to try it since wife got me going on weight watchers.

[UpDownAround]

Originally Posted by Altarian

I don't and dont' know anyone who has. It's this theory that there are certain types of food that can and can't be processed by different blood types. for example my wife is basicly vegan or very little meat while i'm mostly meat and avoid things like broccoli and cabbage.
was just wondering if anyone knew anything about it. not going to try it since wife got me going on weight watchers.

Sounds like woo to me. There are rare specific conditions that can cause those kinds of problems and more common sensitivities and allergies, but they aren't based on blood type. But if someone believes in it, sticks to it and the selection of foods and amounts means they eat less calories than they burn, they will lose weight.

[UpDownAround]

The consistency is almost scary at this point. I did some tests with my scale a few days ago stepping on and off with or without a 2 liter bottle to make sure it went up and down 2 pounds. It did (with some minor variances of 0.2 pounds; it only shows even tenth). Anyway, yet another one within a pound of 160 - 160.2. I think I am up to two weeks now of being within a pound of 160 at every weigh in. I still have this small pouch of fat right around the belly button that bugs me as the abdomen above it has hardened some and my chest and shoulders are getting definition back. I may drop another 5 down to 155. There is no guarantee that would make it go away though.

[Tucson]

I weigh 174 again. Now what to do. I am becoming very thin. Not good at all. I am not ready yet to use an online calculator specifying that I am exersizing three times a week for a new calorie target. My watch should be taking care of the calories burned through exersize. Maybe the watch is understating the calories burned? I know yesterday that I did not count all of my walk due to an interruption.

I looked back a couple weeks. I have been using the MFP adjustment for daily activity for less than a week. This could of made a difference of at least a couple hundred calories or more a day before this time. For the most part, I have been only taking half of this adjustment. So I will now take the full adjustment. Perhaps I will have MFP calculate my calorie requirement for being “lightly active” instead of “sedentary” until I gain a couple pounds back? If I do, and count in exersize, I will have a pretty big calorie requirement in what I eat. Probably over 3000 calories a day. I can bring down this calorie requirement by exersizing less strenuously for now. So this is what I will do until I gain a couple pounds back.

[UpDownAround]

@Tucson - Why don't you just ignore the numbers and eat 3000 a day for a week or two? You are down below where you wan to be, so why bother trying to stabilize now? What weight do you want to stabilize at?

[Tucson]

Originally Posted by UpDownAround

@Tucson - Why don't you just ignore the numbers and eat 3000 a day for a week or two? You are down below where you wan to be, so why bother trying to stabilize now? What weight do you want to stabilize at?

I would like to stabilize at around 178. This is four pounds more than where I am at right now. That way I can still fit into my new wardrobe. So I agree with you. I am getting a bit “a n a l” over this. I need to gain some weight before I go back to the numbers. I still will need to exersize some in order to keep that extra weight from being entirely fat. So I will cut down on my exersize to two miles every other day. My concern is gaining too much weight, but I apparently know how to lose weight. So over the longer term this should work out.

3000 calories a day. WOW. Here comes the occasional banana cream pie, at least half a slice, and potatoe pancakes. I will also pick up a couple high calorie meals at TJs for this week. I still will continue to track my calories burned and calories consumed just to know where I am at.

PS I am still tired from yesterday.

Update: I have purchased three high calorie meals from TJs. I would of purchased more, but I was concerned about the money. However, it came to only $14. I have done my menu for today. It took some effort to come up with a meal plan that is 3000 calories and still be able to eat all of it. MFP tells me that if every day is like today, I will weigh 181.9 in 5 weeks.

[UpDownAround]

Definitely exercise while gaining the weight back. I have been a little fanatical about that lately trying to outrun Father Time. I just saw an article yesterday with a long term study on mortality. Men who had a BMI in the normal/healthy range, don't smoke, exercise regularly, eat healthy and don't drink excessively at age 50 on average live 12.2 years longer. It is obviously too late for the 50 mark, but I can at least do it at 60 without having heart trouble or cancer (which is what the list is about avoiding). All 5 factors; they didn't break it down (at least not in the article).