[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.

[UpDownAround]

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.

[UpDownAround]

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.

[UpDownAround]

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.

[UpDownAround]

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.

[UpDownAround]

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?

[UpDownAround]

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.

[UpDownAround]

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.

[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.