I am trying to find a way to “set it and forget it” even if weight may still change at a very slow rate. This still would be manageable to me. I see my weight as still being stable. The advantage of this approach in using the watch will help me adapt to significantly changing and at times unpredictable exercise loads.

For instance, I power walk several miles for a couple days. Then I want to walk up a steep hill as quickly as I can, who knows how steep this time. The next day, I do walk and run power intervals on the track, adjusting my intervals from time to time. I then go for endurance and walk at a slower brisk pace for ten miles. I find a new trail in the park that goes up and down and around , so I take it. I like to mix this stuff up, or I will get really bored and stop exercising. I can always just walk up that steep hill for an entire week. I think this approach would provide me more flexibility. I will not get into here the possibility of bicycling or just maybe even some weight training.

@UpDownAround: I imagine by adjusting you calories consumed or exercise when your weight is at the upper or bottom end of your chosen range will be successful. I can see where you can develop an awareness of your proper daily calorie consumption. Doing the same exercises in the same way through the week can help. I think consistency would be the key here to make this much easier. If there is a change in intensity from one day to the next, I see you successfully adjusting for this. I think your approach of working out a constant most used calories burned value for each exercise will help allot. So I see you being really successful in this way. I think they key to your success has been accurately gauging the intensity of an exercise and then making the appropriate adjustments to calories burned.

I have a question for you. If I manage to get my calories burned stated by my watch accurate enough, like 80% or possibly even a better accuracy rate, do you think this would be adequate? Looking at various calorie calculators, a difference of a hundred calories or even a bit more should not make a difference. In order to mitigate what difference this can actually make, I will need to continue to record my calorie intake as accurately as possible.

FWIW I figured out how to configure my watch better. Calories per mile on my power walks went from 170 to 180 down to 140, which I think is more accurate. Apparently, when others try to make sense of this, they also find that these are likely gross calories reported. So net calories when BMR is considered will be closer to 120. Why couldn’t of Garmin document something like this??? What a real PITA! Anyways, more adjustments may need to be made.