Have you lost weight since you got your Fitbit?

[Rnda]

I am the exact same weight as I was when I got my Flex 3 1/2 months ago!

How about you?

I'm hoping with Spring here and Summer around the corner, that my walking will increase. 

Moderator edit: title

[SunsetRunner]

With the weight lifting how many weight should I b using . I use to get 12000+ steps , sometimes I did 20k. But I started working different hrs now and cant get them in anymore 

[medas2005]

I would suggest looking on-line.  Start small and add 5 pounds each time until you are pushing the max.  Focus on the big muscles in your legs, abs, and arms.  Health professionals all say that weight lifting is essential to weight loss.

[SunsetRunner]

Ok thanks 

[JoleneBN]

I got my Charge HR in June 2016, I have dropped 45 pounds since!  FitBit gives me the information I need to make good choices!  I have another 65 pounds to goal, but with FitBit, I am confident I will get there!

[simi_island]

since getting my fitbit a month ago ive lost about 5 pounds. but ive been trying to lose weight for about 10 month prior during which i had lost a 1st 9.

[Dave061]

Weighing scales are the enemy of anyone trying to lose weight, your weight can go up and down daily just by the amount of fluid retention you have. Nothing worse than looking in the mirror and thinking yeah, I look better only to get on the scales and find your weight hasn't changed or has gone up slightly, you get demoralised think why should I bother and head for something sweet.

The best way to lose weight is to ditch the scales and use a measuring tape. Measure parts of the body and record the mesurements then check them weekly.

Another good method is a body fat percentage scale, fairly cheap on Amazon or whatever.

I've had my fitbit since Christmas '16 and my son said tonight that I had lost weight, I work out 5 times a week and do a lot of cycling but still put weight on very easily. Logging my food helps me stop eating stuff I shouldn't. 

My two boys and I all have Fitbits and we are in competition with each other for the highest steps. It might be an idea to get into competition with some of your friends?

Dave K

[0khrana]

I got my Flex when I started my weight loss journey, At first I'd just walk and as I got fitter I started jogging and running. Regular exercise paired with a change in eating habits and diet led me to lose 56kg (123lb). If I had to do it all again I'd try and lose it over a longer period of time. 

[medas2005]

that is an amazing result.  I lost 60 pounds in the first half of last year and have learned just how hard it is to keep off.  Even with an hour of exercise every day I have gained about 5 pounds back in the past six months.

[Glenn666]

I got my Fitbit July 9th 2016 at that point weighed 236 pounds, today weigh 196 pounds, target by May 1st is 168

Achieved through being more careful in what I eat, cut out almost all takeaways ( Kept one a month) and reduced alcohol to one night per week, and the moving more currently averaging 20k steps a day

[Lieselotte]

exactly the same 😞

[JimLowey]

I received my FB Charge2 on Xmas day 2016 and 5 weeks later I am down 9lbs. Walking min. of 10000 steps daily and counting cals.

[SunsetRunner]

I ᗷEEᑎ ᑌᔕIᑎG ᖴIT ᔕTᗩᖇ ᖴOᖇ TᗯO ᗯEEKᔕ GOIᑎG Oᑎ ᗰY TᕼIᖇᗪ ᗯEEK ᑌᔕIᑎG IT ᗩᑎᗪ I OᑎᒪY ᒪOᔕᔕ 1.8 ᒪᗷᔕ . I ᗷEEᑎ ᗯOᖇKIᑎG OᑌT 5-7 ᗪᗩYᔕ ᗩ ᗯEEK TOO. 

[JaneK67CA]

Thanks so much for your story my boyfriend and I have starteday a fitness and healthy frenzy since just before Christmas and your story sounds alot like ours. Just that we just started. 🙂  I am 227 lbs was 238 Dec 25 my boyfriend was 261 and is hovering at 242 lb for about 2 weeks now.  He doesnt have a FitBit  but I love mine.  He doesnt eat to make up for his workouts however I seem to follow the fitbit calorie counter and eat  and try to stay in the zone.  My question to you is 

what do you think your max. calorie intake should be in a day .... for today after working  out and eating supper   fit bit tells me I should eat another 1200 calories to get in my green zone... wow  it was 7:30 pm  and I just couldnt see myself eating that much!!! I had frozen banana peanut butter and a few chocolate chips melted  but that was all .....what Im thinking I should do is eat a bit more earlier in the day when I know I will be working out later after work that way I won't have this crazyiness after may workout 🙂  anyways thanks    again it was nice to hear some of the exact things weve been doing  is working out for you .... there is so much to read online and all these different gadgets and gizmos but your ideas make so much sense!!    Best of Luck Jane K.

[A_Lurker]

@JaneK67CA- as to eating what your tracker tells you, well, it kind of depends.  How many calories overall does it say you are burning?  How much of a deficit have you got it set for?

Let's look at a couple of scenarios, both assuming -1000 calorie deficit. This assumes that you are eating 1200 calories less than your dashboard says you should:

Burning 3000 calories, eating 800 <-- way too low

Burning 3500 calories, eating 1300 <-- probably too low

Burning 4000 calories, eating 1800 <-- maybe a little low

Burning 4500 calories, eating 2300 <-- maybe okay

If you have a heart-rate enabled tracker and your fitness frenzy is new you could be seeing some over-counting if your original fitness level was poor.  All trackers use your 'zones' to calculate your calories burned, so the worse your original fitness, the more calories burned you are going to see when you increase your exercise.

Try putting your information into a BMR calculator and see what it tells you it is.  Normally you don't want to eat (long term) under your BMR.  A decent BMR calculator is:  http://www.fat2fittools.com/

[Heybales]

---

@SunsetRunner wrote:

I ᗷEEᑎ ᑌᔕIᑎG ᖴIT ᔕTᗩᖇ ᖴOᖇ TᗯO ᗯEEKᔕ GOIᑎG Oᑎ ᗰY TᕼIᖇᗪ ᗯEEK ᑌᔕIᑎG IT ᗩᑎᗪ I OᑎᒪY ᒪOᔕᔕ 1.8 ᒪᗷᔕ . I ᗷEEᑎ ᗯOᖇKIᑎG OᑌT 5-7 ᗪᗩYᔕ ᗩ ᗯEEK TOO. 

---

Just so you are aware - the main side effect of increased exercise is weight gain.

Not muscle - no, not that easy sadly.

Water weight. Increased glucose storage with attached water, increased blood volume, inflamation for repair (if it was really a hard workout to cause damage).

You might want to start NOT looking at the scale as a means of deciding if you are having success, if you plan on knocking yourselve out that much with exercise.

But rather measurements, increased performance, ect.

But what you might start doing is actually counter-productive - attempting to work out harder and longer and more frequently.

Exercise if done right tears the body down.

But it's the rest for repair and recovery that builds it back up, maybe stronger if diet allows.

What many sadly do is attempt to go harder, longer, more frequent - body never recovers well, workouts start becoming medicore. Even though it feels like giving it your all.

Depending on what your workouts are and how intense, that could take awhile - but you'd get more benefit even until then allowing recovery and doing hard workouts.

That's what will transform the body more, move those inches, and that fat weight.

[SunsetRunner]

BUT IF I BURN MORE CALORIES THAN I EAT WILL THAT HELP NOT TO GAIN WEIGHT. AND HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO SEE SOME KIND ON WEIGHT LOSS OR TONE OR WHAT EVER 

[JaneK67CA]

thanks for the info

my resting bpm is 52 - 53 and as per the fit bit my fitness level so 32 - 35.8   good to very good 

I have lost another pound this week and I change up my workouts   I have started intervals on the treadmill and elliptcal  I monitor my heart rate trying to get into peak 147- 150 during my sprints  and slow down when it is reached   just to mid cardio  rate 131-135  Another questions when doing intervals what heart rates should I been getting to peak and low 

 yesterday my cals out were 3360  and calories  in were 1329 left in budget 751

[Dominique]

---

@SunsetRunner wrote:

BUT IF I BURN MORE CALORIES THAN I EAT WILL THAT HELP NOT TO GAIN WEIGHT. AND HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO SEE SOME KIND ON WEIGHT LOSS OR TONE OR WHAT EVER 

---

@SunsetRunner: please try to type in lower case (and only use upper case at the beginning of sentences and for proper nouns), it makes it easier for other people to read your posts.

Sorry if I’m stating the obvious, but you need to eat less calories than you’re expending in order to lose weight. How fast you will lose depends on the size of your deficit: it is generally considered you need a cumulative deficit of 3500 calories in order to lose one pound. So with a 500 daily deficit, you would lose 1 pound in a week / 4 pounds in a month. With a 250 deficit, you would lose 2 pounds in a month. With a 1000 deficit, you would lose 8 pounds in a month. Et cætera.

What is a "suitable" deficit depends on on much you have to lose and how patient you are.  Generally speaking, the more you have to lose (for instance, if you are in the obese category as per BMI), the higher your deficit can be, at the beginning. As you’re getting closer to your goal, or if you are already in the normal range bracket, or close to it, your deficit should be smaller. 

As to being "toned", it means two things: 1) you have a decent amount of muscle (= hence the need for resistance training – e.g. weight lifting – if you don’t have a lot of muscle) and 2) getting rid of enough subcutaneous body fat so your muscles will show. If you are currently carrying a lot of extra fat, you probably won’t get "toned" very soon, but building muscle (or at least preserving the muscle you already have) and losing fat will help eventually reach that goal.

[SunsetRunner]

Sorry I use using a different keyboard I wasn't sure if b see it. Well Im inpatient so i thinking thats more of what my problem is .. But I have been working out and still feel like I should b losing weight, I knw not a lot but still something 

[Heybales]

---

@JaneK67CA wrote:

thanks for the info

my resting bpm is 52 - 53 and as per the fit bit my fitness level so 32 - 35.8   good to very good 

I have lost another pound this week and I change up my workouts   I have started intervals on the treadmill and elliptcal  I monitor my heart rate trying to get into peak 147- 150 during my sprints  and slow down when it is reached   just to mid cardio  rate 131-135  Another questions when doing intervals what heart rates should I been getting to peak and low 

 yesterday my cals out were 3360  and calories  in were 1329 left in budget 751

---

Whoa - I hope you don't think that eating almost 1/3 of what you burn is in any way healthy.

Your body will rebel, likely sooner and later.

So you already picked a 1000 cal deficit, which if you have over 50-60 lbs to lose is reasonable - and then you missed your eating goal by 751 cal.

I'll bet you aren't willing to miss your weight loss goal by 30% and figure close enough and stop. Meet your eating goal.

Not good at all. If you actually want your workouts to transform your body - you gotta provide your body with something to work with and use to have good workouts, and then recover from them.

Your intervals won't be very good with a body starved for energy, but basically just go as hard as you can for 15-30 sec, then easy recovery for 3 x as long 45-90 sec, like walking speed or equal on elliptical.

Only need about 10 intervals like that after a 5-10 min warmup, then same for cooldown. Not daily though.

That would be considered HIIT style intervals, though treadmill is much harder to ramp up fast enough and truly hit max speed to accomplish.

HIIT is as close to lifting as you'll get doing a cardio workout.

Of course, if you can do the lifting, you'll get better results from it. Won't burn as much, then won't be abusing the body so much eating so little.

And it'll transform the body more.