90 pounds to lose

[tiffyrh07]

Hello everyone, I'm 24 years old.  I currently weigh 229.4.  I just got my fitbit on May 4th, and I've lost about 2-3lbs so far since I've had it.  I have my current goal at 199, just so I don't have to see the 200s anymore since its been about 5 years since I've seen the 100s.  My ultimate goal weight is to be around 135. So I have more than 90lbs to lose total.  I am joined with MyFitnessPal (username is tiffyrh07) if you want to add me.  I need encouragement throughout this journey of mine.  I've tried to lose weight so many different times, with weight watchers, counting calories, etc.  I lose and then gain plus some.  I'm not getting any younger so I need to do this now, and stick with it! Please add me if you would like 

[wanthin]

I need to lose weight.  Just started the fitbit but everytime I eat I go to the computer.  Help I agree this is not eary as we age.

[Heybales]

Did you figure out what went wrong previous times?

If you didn't you could go down the same road, and you don't want to do that it sounds like.

Just want to encourage you to try to figure it out first, because you read around a little bit on MFP and you'll find many tales of ones in their 50-60's that wish they had not started a lifetime of yo-yo dieting their life away having a terrible relationship with food and their bodies.

Like confirm you are using the 2 tools correctly together.

MFP estimates what you burn daily and then takes a deficit off so you are eating less than you burn.

Fitbit has a much better measurement of what you burn daily and tells MFP, so it can adjust what you eat up or down based on burning more or less then it assumed first.

So my biggest encouragement to use tools correctly - reach your daily eating goal when you have Fitbit syncing enabled for positive and negative. Only manually log workouts that Fitbit won't estimate correctly, like lifting, elliptical, steep incline walking or running, spin bike, strength training, ect.

You got the Fitbit I'm betting at least partially to have a better idea of what you really burn each day so you can eat less than that, so accept the fact that as a tool it is not good at some exercises doing that and correct it, so you have a better figure.

[tiffyrh07]

Last time when I fell off the wagon, I just made bad choices and didn't plan.  When I stop planning my meals the day before, I will likely grab something quick and easy, which is fast food.  And when I get fast food, I get what I usually get (which is bad).  Lately if I do go out, I don't get combo and I just get the chicken sandwich, or chicken strips, no fries.  When I plan my meals the night before, I have everything in a bag to take to work that I'm going to eat, and dinner laid out.  It's really all about planning ahead for me.  I have noticed that the fitbit doesn't accurately record workouts.  I just did a 3 mile brisk walk for about 42 minutes and it said I only did 25 minutes of exercise, and didn't correctly add my miles up.  

[thecanuck]

Hi there - I totally relate to what you are trying to do and am one of those in my early 50's who has lived a life of yo-yoing with my weight. I too would love to get out of the "200's" and into the "100's" again!  I have continued to fool myself telling myself that "I carry this weight well" or that "I look great" even if it is a few pounds over!   I need to get real with myself and try to "dissociate" myself with my triggers for my eating habits...

I love it when I'm back working out and need to work out a schedule that works when one has to be on the road every week.

The Canuck

[Heybales]

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@tiffyrh07 wrote:

Last time when I fell off the wagon, I just made bad choices and didn't plan.  When I stop planning my meals the day before, I will likely grab something quick and easy, which is fast food.  And when I get fast food, I get what I usually get (which is bad).  Lately if I do go out, I don't get combo and I just get the chicken sandwich, or chicken strips, no fries.  When I plan my meals the night before, I have everything in a bag to take to work that I'm going to eat, and dinner laid out.  It's really all about planning ahead for me.  I have noticed that the fitbit doesn't accurately record workouts.  I just did a 3 mile brisk walk for about 42 minutes and it said I only did 25 minutes of exercise, and didn't correctly add my miles up.  

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Good plan.

Go a step futher in case you do go out, in case you run out of time for the prep's.

Find all the places you might go for lunch or dinner, and find 2 or 3 items on their menu that are good choices, and right them down, or a note on your smartphone would be more today. But a slip of paper in your car above your visor, easy reach. Copy in purse in case someone else drives.

Because you know it will happen.

Also, might really investigate why it was so off. There are acceptable locations for some of the models, and there are best locations. Because a walk should have been nailed pretty good.

After you find a location that at least recognizes the steps and times correctly, then I'd suggest manually checking your stride length.

Because ya, that's not good.

[josephz2va]

- You can press Log , Activity, then log a workout. But note this alters all aspects of your realtime data.

To get very active minutes, it would have to be a sustained run, no rests. 3.0+ consistently.

I generally use the treadmill instead, but it requires 5+ to log an active minute.