How can I compare my activity level from months ago, to now?

[RodAtHome]

Due to circumstances beyond my control I had to drop my gym membership 3 and a half months ago. I could no longer afford it. That has had a detrimental effect upon my fitness. I still walk every day, but not as far as I used to. I've tried doing weights 3 days a week, but I don't have the weights like I had at the gym. I've gained two pounds and my belt is tighter than it used to be. These realisations have only recently come to me after having visited my doctor for the first time in months and being able to get weighed at the doctor's office.

So I got to thinking, within my limited budget I've got to try and track what I'm doing, activity wise. But it would be great to be able to compare that to how it was going back in March, say. Then I realized, hey I should have access to that because of the data captured and presumably saved by my FitBit. So I just tried getting into it from my Dashboard here on the FitBit website, and then's when I realized that it isn't as simple as I thought it would be. All I found I could do was click on the date button on my dashboard to page back, one day at a time. That's crazy. I'd like to be able to compare my daily average over the month of March vs. what it was like the month of October, for example. How do I get that kind of analytics on this website?

[Odyssey13 · Accepted solution]

@RodAtHomeSounds like you're on top of things and are keeping an eye on yourself, which is great. Not everyone has a gym membership or lives close enough to one to join.

Go to this link - click - use the calendar on the upper right to select the time period you want to view. It doesn't average things for you, but you can see monthly totals and divide those by the days in that month. See if that helps you.

Oh, this is best viewed on a computer and not a mobile device.

We're here for you and welcome to the forums.

[Heybales]

You didn't gain weight because you weren't exercising as much.

You gained weight because you ate more than you burned.

If you don't get that concept down you'll always have problems with weight, because frankly you have to understand that you will ALWAYS have to eat correctly for your level of activity.

You do less - you should eat less.

You do more - you can eat more.

You should have been able to keep following the Fitbit recommended eating level unless you did some manual eating goal and didn't adjust it with less activity.

Because Fitbit is always taking a deficit off what you burn. If you started burning less, you'd just be given less to eat.

And maybe that's the problem, you have trouble adhering to a diet of eating even less than you wanted. That's fine - but you better burn more somehow then.

Or make your diet goal more realistic. Or accept the fact you got bummed out about work a few times and ate more.

I'm betting though, it was more of an adherence problem at specific times, not daily.

I stopped my gym membership too back in April for same reason, and finished my weight loss through the summer, with mainly outdoor activities. About to finally start using some weights at home as winter comes on, doing what I can do, even if it isn't what I could do at the gym.

No excuses.

[Gershon]

Click on the steps dial.

Click on "See more" at the bottom.

Click on the month.

Change the dates to see previous months.

Hope this works for you.

[Heybales]

Very similar through browser access, which may give more control and options.

Log - Activities tab - click on Steps if not showing those stats already.

Click on Date button and it lets you enter a range - go for the month, get your total stats. Then go for recent month.

Or put the whole time span in there and see what the graph shows for gradual week to week changes.