[Tucson]

I have had about 2200 calories. I walked four miles at about 2000 steps a mile. My actual total for today turned out to be 10,309 steps. Using a rule of thumb, you burn 100 calories a mile. I went at a brisk pace, so I have probably have burned more. So I have burned at least 400 calories with my walk alone, and probably more.

As a side note, a pound of fat is 3500 calories. So if you burn up 500 calories a day, within one week, you will have lost a pound. I think this assumes the person eating enough that normally would maintain ones weight. This is all from two articles on the Internet, including one from a runners magazine.

So now what to do with those at least 400 calories that I have burned today? What if I keep this up for every other day? I do not want to lose weight. However, I do want to be more physically fit. If I tone muscle, all the better. I will try to keep this up every other day. In time, four miles will not be enough for me to have the same kind of workout.

[UpDownAround]

164.2 this morning. If that is a spike up, I am more than happy with it. High step count the last couple of days and plan to do the same today; I think that has something to do with the needle swinging down a little faster than I was expecting. The next bump up in calories may cone sooner than I was thinking, but I need to wait and see how weigh ins go during the week with less walking (Friday was an unusual weekday; I will usually get less than half that many steps).

EDIT - 12:30 and already at 8218 steps before lunch!

[Tucson]

My weight is 178 today. This time, my weight varies between scales up to one pound or more of a difference. Usually, all of my sales have pretty close to the same weight. So I am going with the scale I believe is more accurate. With clothes on, I would weigh 182. This is a big difference. Jeans make even a bigger difference. Boy, clothes and what is in the pockets can make a significant difference.

I had some pancakes for breakfast. I used more oil this time which boosted the calories. This allows the oil to bubble up and partially cook the other side before flipping them. This is kind of like frying the pancake. I will have two cups of a Trader Joe’s Kung Pao lunch. For dinner, I am thinkng of having two cups of creamy chicken with dumplings soup. Good stuff. The Campbells Chunky brand of soup. I will also treat myself to a cup of Hershey’s hot chocolate at my next door Circle K. I am going to walk there for the exersize. I do not know if I am ready to do another four mile walk, but maybe a two mile walk this time. This will add about 4,000 steps to my daily total. If I burn as much as 200 to 400 calories a day, depending how many miles I walk, staying around 2300 calories may still just maintain my weight.

[UpDownAround]

15,885 steps - estimated to be 7.1 miles and 644 calories. 1703 calories. Once again the extra steps more than nullified the adjusted calories. Once I stop seeing numbers above 164 on the scale, I will edge my daily up t0 1800. Lots of fruit and snacking today, but hitting my protein target pretty much every day, even though I think it is high.

[Cocosurviving]

MFP calories 1,085. Apple Watch steps 2,613. Water intake 50.7 oz. I had a lazy day inside watching movies.

[Tucson]

It is 2350 calories for me today. I took about 8,300 steps. Using a rule of thumb where there is about 2000 steps in walking a mile, I have walked about four miles. Using another rule of thumb where a person burns at least 100 calories per mile, I have burned at least 400 calories, and probably more since I walked at a brisk pace. I had pancakes, a chile rellenos home made with real chiles instead of green bell pepper, and TJs Kung Pao chicken. I had a less than the two cups I have stated on today’s menu. I am going to save the rest for tomorrow.

PS The problem I have is on my activity monitor, it says I accumulate 1300 steps today when I am just walking around the house. So I will put my monitor on just before I go outside. Then, the remaining error will be handled by walking a couple miles which will make the error a small part of the total. This should work.

[UpDownAround]

I think my Fitbit knock off does too good of a job filtering out things that are not steps. I am in the office and have been back and forth to the breakroom a couple of times. I had to walk in from the parking lot. At home, I was up and down the stairs and back and forth in the kitchen putting away dishes and making breakfast. I have 111 steps on the watch. That seems low. Mine guesses the miles and gets that pretty accurate (walk routes that are known distances sometimes). It seems to ignore really short distance walking, but always gets my big walks.

[Tucson]

My weight is 178. I am still sore from the back-to-back days of walking long distances. So for today, I will take it easy. I will get some exersize. I started out with an odd combination for breakfast being the remaining part of that Kung a Pao dinner I made yesterday, and a banana. I need to start eating that ground turkey I have before it spoils. So I will have a turkey burger perhaps with refried Black beans.

[UpDownAround]

You can always cook up the ground meat with a little taco seasoning (or chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder and salt, which is pretty much what it is) and then freeze the crumbles to make tacos or add to salads or whatever. I have better luck with freezing cooked meat to reheat than refreezing uncooked in terms of actual using it up. Frozen crumbles are convenient; frozen raw meet requires remembering to take it out at the right time and then use it pretty quick after it thaws.

[Cocosurviving]

MFP calories 1092 total. Apple Watch steps 5,048. Water intake 50.7 oz. I walked today

[UpDownAround]

164.6 this morning.

Yesterday - 9557 steps. 1700 calorie. Actually a few more calories, but I pushed them forward into today and will even it back out by eating a little less today to get the same total.

[UpDownAround]

Today - 4929 steps. 1700 calories. Played the push forward game again, but this time it was only 75 calories. The "strawberry shortcake" was actually a short yellow cake with a strawberry flavored whipped cream frosting and I got a pretty small piece; it was likely under 200 calories but I picked the entry just over as a reasonable guess. I think I will stay at 1700 until I see 160 or below on the low side and don't see 164 or above on the high side for a few days. Then I will go to 1800 a day. I should still lose very, very slowly at 1800. A lot depends on whether I keep upping my average on walking.

[Tucson]

Here is yesterday’s food report. I weighed 178. I walked about 1,800 steps. I have had about 2300 calories. I think I will walk a couple miles. That should give me a extra 4,000 steps for today.

By the way, I have purchased a pie several days ago. I am waiting for my daughter to pick it up. For the most part, I have avoided eating any. When I did for two times, I had a half of a slice of pie each time. This is not bad. I am moderating my exposure to desserts.

@UpDownAround Excellent idea.

[Tucson]

Today I weigh 187. I think I am beginning to lose weight again. Even through I tried to keep my calories between 2100 and 2300, I have been burning up a significant amount of calories on my long walks. I walk pretty fast and try to keep my heart reate above 150. I have burned about 860 calories today so far. This only includes my walk, and not the normal steps taken such as within my small townhome. I have walked about 12,000 steps. It is probably more. Next tiime I will be accurate as I will jot down the step count for each activity. Even though each activity is recorded, as far as I know, the steps are not saved. The total calories burned for each activity is updating the exersize info on MFP. Nice! So this means I need to eat more calories in order to maintain my weight. Now MFP is tracking this for me.What this does is strengthen my legs and cardiovascular system, while maintaining my weight.

I am going to have to figure out how to increase my calorie intake without an expensive grocery bill. I will post totals in my evening. I am also keeping tract on the amount of water that I drink. I live in a dessert. I may make Sloppy Jores for dinner. Perhaps even a little slice of pie.

@UpDownAround: Great job on your diet. Your giving inspiration to all of us.

PS I found out the steps may come up with the PC version of the mobile app.

[UpDownAround]

8006 steps. My average steps per day for this month is over 6100 and my average steps for the year is now over 4500. 1703 calories. Got my cholesterol results back and slightly bunned; I only lowered by LDL from 116 to 110. My overall is 170, which is good, but I wanted to get LDL under 100. I don't have any cardiovascular problems, so it is really fine for it to be up to 125, but I was hoping to drop it in the double digits. All that oatmeal and walking for 6 lousy points.
Kinda heavy on the snacks, but a lot of it is fruit and the sweets are small (Hershey's Nugget, fun size Twix and a whopping 32g of Reese's ice cream; 200 calories total between the 3). One of my kids got the Reese's ice cream a while back and didn't like it as much as he thought; it's super rich. But 32g at a time, it's a nice little treat.

@Tucson - thanks! You and @Cocosurviving are staying on top of it pretty well also. I am going to have to pay attention to the burn before long. I don't eat extra because of extra burn; it has just been a little bonus on the loss rate. But soon I will need to quit losing. I will let it drop below 160 before I try too hard to stop losing though.

[Cocosurviving]

MFP calories 970 total. Apple Watch steps 5,437
Water intake 50.7oz. I did some walking today.

[bizi]

Originally Posted by Tucson

.... I walk pretty fast and try to keep my heart reate above 150.

That is a really elevated heart rate!!!!!
be careful.
bizi

[Tucson]

I have consumed about 2800 calories. This is because I have burned at least 700 calories walking. I have drank 48 ounces of water. My chart here is missing one activity which is where I burned off at least 200 and probably many more calories. My MFP does not include this in its calculations. As I mentioned in a previous post, I walked at least 12,000 steps and likely more.

As you will note on my chart, you will see the three activities recorded. I was monitoring only parts of my walk. So there is one more activity missing which logged the most calories burned. I will fix this for future walks. BTW an activity is one exersize of walking, or running, or other like reps with weights.

PS As a rule of thumb, each mile you walk amounts to about 2000 steps with 200 calories burned. I was power walking, so I will burn up more calories. The estimate by the app seems to support this, both steps taken and calories burned. So the calculations of these two values are probably in the ball park of being accurate.

[Tucson]

Originally Posted by bizi

That is a really elevated heart rate!!!!!
be careful.
bizi

My highest heart rate was 162 bpm. So I consider this as a cardio exersize. I think it became this high because I pushed myself when being very out of shape. If I was in shape, I would have to work harder to get it up that high. I imagine I would then have to run the distance. I do not see myself doing this because of problems with my knees. Boy, am I tired.

[UpDownAround]

Weight is 162.2 this morning, which I think is a new low. I probably need to start adding in my exercise calories so I don't lose too fast.

My heart rate got into the 160s when I ran a few years ago and because I often ran an hour or more without stopping, it stayed that high for quite a while. It wasn't dangerous for me; I have no history of cardiovascular problems.

These days, I am brisk walking at around 7500 steps an hour, I think. I should probably get a heartbeat reading; I just hate wearing the fitness watch tight enough to get good readings.

[Tucson]

I now weigh 176. EEE GADS. From now on, I will add in my exersize calories into the picture. I may cut down on the distance I have been walking from six miles to four miles. I need to walk every other day so I can move part of the calorie deficit due to walking into the next day. So I will have two days to eat enough to make up the calories spent through my walking on one day.

@UpDownAround: It has been my experience that a tight wristband is not required to get good heart rate readings. All I use is a reasonably snug fit which is per instructions that came with my activity band. As an aside, the cheap Chinese knockoff bands that I have tried from Amazon still registered heart beats even when entirely taken off my wrist. Amazing. There is Voodoo at foot here. So I threw those away. I have ended up with one made by Garmin. I like it better than the FitBit at significantly less cost.

[Tucson]

Originally Posted by UpDownAround

8006 steps. My average steps per day for this month is over 6100 and my average steps for the year is now over 4500. 1703 calories. Got my cholesterol results back and slightly bunned; I only lowered by LDL from 116 to 110. My overall is 170, which is good, but I wanted to get LDL under 100. I don't have any cardiovascular problems, so it is really fine for it to be up to 125, but I was hoping to drop it in the double digits. All that oatmeal and walking for 6 lousy points.
Kinda heavy on the snacks, but a lot of it is fruit and the sweets are small (Hershey's Nugget, fun size Twix and a whopping 32g of Reese's ice cream; 200 calories total between the 3). One of my kids got the Reese's ice cream a while back and didn't like it as much as he thought; it's super rich. But 32g at a time, it's a nice little treat.

@Tucson - thanks! You and @Cocosurviving are staying on top of it pretty well also. I am going to have to pay attention to the burn before long. I don't eat extra because of extra burn; it has just been a little bonus on the loss rate. But soon I will need to quit losing. I will let it drop below 160 before I try too hard to stop losing though.

Thank you. Taking your step counts, assuming a good pace, 6100 steps is about three miles. I am using a rule of thumb gained from some looking on the Internet. My activity monitor seems to support this. Anyway, depending how much effort you are placing into it, you can easily burn 600 calories this way, and probably even more.

I think the reason you lost so quickly for awhile there, you were cutting your calories to the bone, and expending a significant amount of calories when you walked. The effort that this must of taken! If I had ever attempted that, I would of felt faint much of the time. Your are incredibly disciplined. I can be this way sometimes, usually if I feel there is not any other option but to achieve a goal

[Tucson]

I will weigh myself tomorrow. 3,317 steps. 32 oz water. Burned 243 calories on two separate walks. My calorie count for today is 2427. So strictly using the calories from my two walks, this makes a net of 2184 calories. This is in my 2100 to 2300 calorie goal. I am only counting the calories burned on my two walks. My other steps for today did not require much effort at all. For that matter, those steps added up to very little compared to the total steps taken during my exercises.

@UpDownAround: I think it is a good idea to include calories burned in your calculations. You do walk a significant amount of steps. Doesn’t your app allow for the import of calories burned into MFP? Or do you have to enter this manually?

[UpDownAround]

@Tuscon - I would have to enter it manually. That is one downside of the knock offs (versus real FitBits). Yeah, I probably need to start figuring it in or I will lose farther down than I want to. I am afraid of upping my calories too much because of gaining the weight back in the past.

7829 steps today. My watch estimates that is 3.50 miles. It may detect gait; I am 5'8", so I may take more steps per mile. 1703 calories. Still kind of snack heavy.

[Tucson]

I am 177 again. I will do a couple mile walk today. This should amount to about 200 to 250 calories burned up per mile. So I may eat a half of a slice of banana cream pie later today in an effort to help make up for this calorie defecit. I can always make a fruit smoothie.

@UpDownAround: Your in the same position I am in. I am concerned that if I am not careful, I will gain weight. Every time I think of the 235 pounds I used to weigh, this motivates me to not let any weight gain happen. At the same time, I I do not want to lose any weight either. Right now, I am a few pounds below where I would like to be. So this gives my some room to work with.

PS Whenever I walk, this thing vibrates on my wrist when my heart rate is too low. I think this is due to me having set a target bpm of 150. It sometimes can be irritating when I start out walking. Buzz buzz buzz. LOL