Fitbit zones and weight loss

[Jayk11]

Hi, wondering if anyone can help.

I recently brought an Apple Watch for the reason of weightless and a few other reasons.

Im not always the most active person and currently over weight.  However prior to buying the apple watch while being stuck at home during lockdown I did loose some weight and also started enjoying using resistance bands and small bursts of exercise. I then got the Apple Watch and in September I started doing the school run, which is a 35 min walk there and back and same in the afternoon.

For some reason Im no longer loosing weight intact actually look big again! Im not eating unhealthy infact im eating less and more healthier since lockdown ended. 

So I did my research on Fitbit and feel it may be more useful (leaning towards the Sense) Please correct me if I'm wrong Im new to this.  But will doing certain exercises in the 'fat burn zone' will It help me to lose weight?   And if this is correct do yo get notified or do you need to check the app. 

Doing small bursts of certain exercise really helped me during lockdown and im wondering what im doing wrong as I exhaust myself every day.  On average, most days I am doing between 7000 steps 15000 steps. Standing for all my 12 hours. Yet I dont feel good for it and I feel heavier.

I do love my Apple Watch but im wondering if having a fit bit with zones and more support for workouts will help me.

Or am I doing something wrong?

Any advise would be appreciated.  

[Heybales]

For purely fat loss purposes the aspect of "eating healthy" is meaningless - calories is all that matters.

Healthy for nutrition, yes, for strong body, yes, for eating what you can adhere to and will fill you up - yes.

But plenty of people have gained fat weight eating nothing but "healthy" foods. 

Accurate logging of calories eaten, compared to calories burned - is what matters for fat loss.

Eaten calories is per gram, or weight. Not by spoon, cup, or about 3 per package.

So you have to weigh everything that goes in your mouth, and confirm the database entry matches nutrition label in hand.

As far as exercise and those zones - for the day as a whole, that fat-burning zone is meaningless.

It means your energy source is higher % of fat - and that's because the calorie burn is so low. Increase the intensity and HR zone, and you'll burn more calories and more grams of fat, but % will be lower overall.

Shoot, your daily % of fat burn sitting or standing for vast majority of the day is already upwards of 90%.

If burning more calories in the day allows you to eat and adhere to a diet level, then going lower won't help you.

Would you rather burn 2500 daily calories and eat 2000 to lose 1 lb weekly, or burn 2000 being sedentary and have to eat 1500 for same 1 lb - and be making no body improvements with no exercise on the latter?

And exercise doesn't cause fat loss, actually side effect is water weight gain for many reasons. Good needed water weight (unless overdoing it and gaining stress water weight) your body wants for the workouts.

Calorie deficit, eating less than you burn daily by a reasonable amount - is what will cause fat loss.

So what does the Fitbit and Apple watch say you burn daily on average, like for a weekly avg to compare them?

And what is your eating level since you make no comment on that at all?

[emili]

you need some data to be able to say if you are losing weight, gaining weight or staying the same. the device on your wrist isn't going to do the work for you, it will just spit back data of the work you put in. Weigh yourself. Work out how many calories you should be eating per day to lose weight. Prepare a meal plan that works in your budget of calories, time and finance. Stay active to build up your overall health. If you choose to get a Fitbit, that is great. There are lots of options out there, guided activities and other goodies. But you don't need it to lose weight or improve your health.