Weight Loss and exercise

I was at 167 today. So it is going down. I ate about 1,200 calories today. I’m not going on any more vacations this year thankfully. I know I could just watch it while I’m on vacation. I just like to go all out on my trips.

MFP calories 1,001. Apple Watch steps 4,975
Water intake 32oz

I weighed a little under 156 this morning. Beach trip to surf cancelled today; still paddled though. Still planning to wipe the slate tomorrow even if I have extra calories rolling forward. I did today but right now I have a surplus. Enough for a reasonable dinner and maybe a couple of snacks; time to get my discipline back. Right now, planning little or no exercise this weekend, but surfing on Monday.

EDIT - afternoon weight after paddling is 157. No shock there; I had ~24 ounces of water in about 45 minutes prior to weighing and while breakfast lunch and a morning snack of an apple were pretty light, they were enough to tip the scales even with all the exercise.

I think I just really do have to watch it. It’s not as easy as it was before and I really have to work very hard on keeping my weight down. I still don’t get why It’s so difficult all of a sudden when none of my meds have changed. The 12 pounds is still confusing.

I can’t lose on anything over 1,300 calories. Even with exercise it won’t work. I remember I did a lot of walking on an outing, but because I had 1,400 calories my weight didn’t budge. But 1,200 calories is difficult. Maybe it is a hormone issue, but it can be managed with a low calorie diet. I just have to stick with it.

I am going to go a few hundred over and then write it off. It occurs to me that for all practical purposes I wrote it off some time ago. I kept dropping 1000+ behind regularly and rolling it forward. It was the same 1000+ calories; I didn't keep raising the number. The real goal is to stay fit/trim and not let the weight creep up. Tracking calories closely every day is to help with that, not replace those things as the primary goal.

5102 steps. I have walked and ran only 2.25 miles burning 217 calories. For some reason, I was not up to running today. So this makes for a target of 2717 calories. I have consumed 2776 calories. This works for me. Today, my weight was 170 pounds this morning which is low.

Now am I overstating the calories consumed, or understating the calories burned? The callories per mile ends up being 96 callories. I think this is close enough considering one quarter of the time is spent running. Just walking at about 4 mph for a milr gives me 82 calories burned per mile. Does this last figure of 82 calories per mile sense?

I don't have the link to the charts handy, but that's not unreasonable. Speed factors in; the faster we go, the less "fuel efficient" we are. Slow walking burns fewer calories per mile than fast walking and running burns more calories per mile than fast walking. The calorie difference is even greater if you use time since you cover more distance in the same time the faster you go. Using your figure, you would burn 328 calories in an hour to go 4 miles. When I ran, I burned about 600 calories in an hour to go 6 miles.

I ended up about 650 calories over yesterday. Because I rolled over about 1300 from prior days, that means I really was about 650 under when adding the daily goal to the burn for yesterday. And I was back in the mode of editing logged calories and ignoring steps.

I have still been using Pacer, just not auto logging. I averaged 3150 steps per day for the last week. As long as I stay under 5,000, I don't see much need in logging. I will log if I do a long walk, which will become more common as the weather begins to cool and I don't paddle much. I will start kayaking more but not as frequently as I paddle SUP.

The last time I weighed myself was early in the morning. This afternoon I weighed myself and I was 166. I have eaten today and I’ve also had 62 ounces in liquids. So it might be more like 163. Today my calorie intake will be around 1,200 calories.

MFP calories 842. Apple Watch steps 1,845
Water intake 40.9 oz

Went surfing today right where Florence is predicted to make landfall. The waves were too big for SUP, so I took a one hour "regular "surfing lesson and then surfed about another 90 minutes or so. I am not sure what the burn is for that. For once, I think mfp is really low on estimating. It said 527; I bumped it up to 900. It was extremely high exertion because of how hard it was to get past the breakers. After I got home, before I jumped in the shower I was 158, but I had just finished off a lot of water and a Monster zero because I was so tired driving home. I had a big lunch - mahi tacos and fries. I will see what I weigh Wednesday or Thursday morning before I worry about it.

I am going to get up about 2 AM and go to the nearby 24 hour grocery store and see if they restocked water and get some other staples while the lines are (hopefully) shorter. If it comes this far inland, and right now they say there is a good chance, it won't get here until Friday.

No exercise. So my target is 2500 calories. I have consumed 2549, so I am over by 49 calories. Good enough. I have been letting other things interfere with my exercise. This will no longer happen. Since I have not exercised for a few days, my performance will drop and take me several times of exercising to catch up to where I was. I will not let this happen again. Everyone and everything else will just have to wait.

Well I weighed myself I did not lose any weight but I also did not gain any weight. I go back to the gastro doc tomorrow. If I get good news this time and start feeling back. Then I’m going to start trying to go to my complex gym while my daughter is at school. Right now I’m having more problems with medical and allergies. My allergies had me down for a few hours this morning.

MFP calories 554. Apple Watch steps 3,603
Did not drink much water today

157 this morning; would like to get down to 153 but not in a hurry. 1743 calories with no exercise yesterday. Still really sore from surfing Monday.

I went down to 162 and now I’m at 167. My therapist is also confused as to how I can go up and down so much and so fast. I’m worried I look like I’ve gained weight. Everyone says I don’t though.

I walked enough to log some today. 2 miles for 105 calories. Consumed 2057; a bit too much but not crazy over. I will weigh in the morning.

Hi everyone! Hope all of you are doing well. I haven't really lost anymore weight in a while. Just staying the same. I could do better about how I eat. I've just become a bit lazy. It doesn't help that I don't cook anything. I want to try to get better about that.

Anyway, best wishes and success to all of you!

Ask a medical doctor not a therapist. My MD advised me on what my goal weight should be based on my age and weight.

But does your MD know you are often eating only a few hundred calories a day? Some of your reports have me concerned.

@Cocosurviving: I do not kean to gang up on you, but I sgree with UpDownAround about your relativly small daily calorie intake.

Here is my report for yesterday.

I made 8046 steps. I walked and ran for 3.2 miles with miserable stats. I just could not push myself, and I have walked for a more significant period of tine than normal for this distance. I guess I had allot on my mind. Anyway, I have burned a whole 220 calories. This makes my target to be 2720 calories.

I did consume a whopping 3266 calories. So this makes for an overage if sbout 500 calories. I will split the overage between today and tomorrow. So I need to burn 250 calories today. My weight is 173 today.

I am going over today and not logging that well. I need to put the brakes on and start losing again. Last night's walk was the only exercise since Monday. Wind and rain from Florence from tonight until Sunday, so probably little or now exercise for the next few days.

EDIT - and like so many of my "over" days, it got a lot worse. Brownies...

Almost double goal. I would have to fast all day tomorrow to average it out...

MFP 1,214. Apple Watch steps 5,411
Water intake 24oz
Walked dog several times

1200+ calories! Awesome! That's much healthier. It will still get you where you want to be.

My exercise did not go well. My performance stats tell me I have not pushed myself much at all, but I am still finding myself tired. It is like the effort is unusually sifficult. My heart rate was no where close to what it normally is by the end of a run. Other stats confirm this lack of effort. I think this is due to being unusually depressed. I ended up walking for the last 1.5 miles. This is not normal for me.

I have made 10822 steps. I ran and walked 4.63 miles. As a consequence, I have burned 324 calories. This is about 70 calories per mile. So this makes for a target of 2824 calories. However, I am moving over 250 calories from yezterdays overage. This means my adjusted target is 2574 calories. I have consumed 2510 calories. This leaves me short 64 calories short which is good enough for me.

@UpDownAround: What calories did you log in the past for briskly walking each mile?

Since I have stopped using my watch for calories burned, I may change my base calories back to 2300. Previously I made the adjustment to 2500 calories since I thought my watch was underestimating calories burned.

@Tucson - I have logged different amounts not really sure what is right but in the 50-60 range mostly. A lot of times it is just from being lazy and doing rough math (3.6 miles is about 200, for example).

Still not exercising and still very sore; I tried push ups and pull ups and they are too painful. I don't think I need to keep doing "regular" surfing. I still want to try SUP surfing in calmer conditions.

Yesterday ended up being ~3400! Planning to do a very low day to offset it since between the storm and being so sore I won't get much, if any, exercise.