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. 

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[JojoTerry]

Hey @WhiteLilacs, I guess for me I enjoy walking and since the first lockdown last March, I've walked thousands of miles 😅.  

I have had stop/starts in the past, I would suggest start with a walk around the block first and I promise you you'll want to extend it after two/three weeks OR check out utube (hope that's OK for me to suggest on this forum, guess I'll soon find out 🤦🏾), there are a lot of walking exercises ranging in time 10, 20, 30 mins or distance. I found these today only because the weather forecast for the next 3 days is for rain so was looking for an alternative online.

Hope that helps to get you going 🤞🏾💪🏾

[DanGilbert]

Had mine for two years but only this year did I start to properly work on losing weight. I had to isolate back in March and felt so unhealthy afterwards after not walking for two weeks. I was on furlough in May and decided to turn it into a positive by getting healthy. Gone from 17st 3 to 13st. Now looking to maintain that. Any tips on how to just maintain that weight welcome!

 

[PJBear69]

thats great news had mine a few years and also bought the scales and then focused on weight loss I had a BMI 48 and was just shy of 300lb and at 1.75m that was not good I an now BMI 24.6 and 168lb  but the true secret to weight loss is diet as exercise helps but in my experience is only 10%  effective diet is the 90% part of the equation that said since I got fit bit and lost the weight life has been so much better

[etolv]

Totally agree. Physical activity is excellent for overall health, but if someone is consuming more energy than their body is using each day then they will not lose weight. If the amount of calories one consumes is greater than the amount of energy they "burn," then weight- and fat-loss cannot be achieved. It's old-fashioned calories in vs. calories out that makes the difference over time. 

[shipo]

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@etolv wrote:

Totally agree. Physical activity is excellent for overall health, but if someone is consuming more energy than their body is using each day then they will not lose weight. If the amount of calories one consumes is greater than the amount of energy they "burn," then weight- and fat-loss cannot be achieved. It's old-fashioned calories in vs. calories out that makes the difference over time. 

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For the most part you are correct, but at the extreme upper end of fitness, the above simply doesn't hold true.

Several times in my life I've been in really good shape, say when I was triathloning in my early 30s or when I was running over 300 miles per month in my late 50s; in both cases I was burning roughly 4,000 calories per day but needing to consume over 6,000 calories per day just to maintain my weight.

[Heybales]

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@shipo wrote:

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@etolv wrote:

Totally agree. Physical activity is excellent for overall health, but if someone is consuming more energy than their body is using each day then they will not lose weight. If the amount of calories one consumes is greater than the amount of energy they "burn," then weight- and fat-loss cannot be achieved. It's old-fashioned calories in vs. calories out that makes the difference over time. 

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For the most part you are correct, but at the extreme upper end of fitness, the above simply doesn't hold true.

Several times in my life I've been in really good shape, say when I was triathloning in my early 30s or when I was running over 300 miles per month in my late 50s; in both cases I was burning roughly 4,000 calories per day but needing to consume over 6,000 calories per day just to maintain my weight.

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Laws of thermodynamics holds true in every case. Ignoring short-term water weight fluctuations that have no calories but do have weight.

If your weight didn't change then you were eating the same number of calories for energy that you were burning.

What was wrong was your logging and what provided the estimates of burns. Those estimates didn't happen to match - thermodynamics wasn't wrong - the estimates were.

My best month of logging food while coming up on a HI-tri saw expected weight loss from food logs under 5% difference than expected from the numbers. I've been close but over the 5% in other cases where frankly there wasn't the exercise estimates needed.

And that was replacing every single workout calorie burn from the Garmin with better estimates, swimming was per formula from a website, running was formula from website, biking was from powermeter.

And the Fitbit was tweaked to be using a BMR figure not based on gender, age, weight, height, but rather Katch BMR based on BF%.

You probably had a combo of food logging being off not actually eating that much, and exercise estimates being off burning more than you thought.

This is excellent example of why all estimates will have to be tweaked later after results are seen, very few are perfectly average in all aspects that all estimates apply to them.

[shipo]

I would argue at some point when you are highly active and eating large quantities of food, your body simply cannot process everything eaten and passes it through.  The estimates of both my food intake and exercise burn have been consistent for both periods of my life (separated by nearly 30 years), and in both cases, as my workouts increased I needed to increase my daily caloric intake to significantly higher levels.

While I have heard similar accounts from other endurance athletes, I cannot say if this is scientifically proven, or if it is just empirical at this point.

[FrannieMa]

You have your opinions and I have mine.  You have what works for you and I have what works for me.  I have success.  Leave it at that...no negative comments.

[Heybales]

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@FrannieMa wrote:
You have your opinions and I have mine.  You have what works for you and I have what works for me.  I have success.  Leave it at that...no negative comments.

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Huh?

No one could possibly know which of the 1,607 replies you are talking about.

[Heybales]

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@shipo wrote:

I would argue at some point when you are highly active and eating large quantities of food, your body simply cannot process everything eaten and passes it through.  The estimates of both my food intake and exercise burn have been consistent for both periods of my life (separated by nearly 30 years), and in both cases, as my workouts increased I needed to increase my daily caloric intake to significantly higher levels.

While I have heard similar accounts from other endurance athletes, I cannot say if this is scientifically proven, or if it is just empirical at this point.

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Fair point, of course like in my case the 5% difference has as part of the fact fiber counts in the calorie count but obviously not to the body it passes through, same as peanuts have high non-absorb rate, some vegetables.

Depends on training schedule too, I've seen the reports for those that just have to spread food out over the day, so no loaded stomach when starting a workout, they do better at absorb. Do the same as a working person and training during other hours - may have some fun eating during the workout getting minimum absorb.

[FrannieMa]

I am blocking youg

[Jabu]

You started great. Keep it going! Good luck!

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[Akluv]

consistency truly is the keyword, it does help a lot. 

[Steventonysmith]

I have lost 58.3 in less than 2 months since I got my Fitbit, then again I have a lot to lose.  I was 433.9 lbs!  Now I am 375.6!

[Akluv]

Yes i have lost 20.1 lbs

[AmandaGeorge]

WTG, @Akluv!

[JuanFitbit]

Hi everyone! Thank you for sharing your experiences. 

Since I had my first Fitbit, about 5 years ago, I lost around 30 Lbs, altogether.  I love to drink sodas. And I know, that the sugar on them is not healthy at all, in those quantities, but that's one of my pet peeves. Sometimes I take 2 weeks to make a "clean up" where I change the sodas for mint - water. (just add a mint leaves to the water in the fridge.) I noticed that on these 2 weeks I loose about 2-4 lbs just by changing my drinking habits.  

I agree with you all that mentioned, that efforts, consistency and eating healthy helps a lot. 

Good luck in achieving your goals to everyone, 

[Doc_Yuengling]

I had originally lost about 50 pound weight loss over the last couple of years. 

I started Fitbit New Years day, after rebounding 10 pounds from two vacations to Nashville, and San Antonio, then Thanksgiving, and Christmas holidays. 

Fitbit helps keep me focused, so I rapidly lost those 10 pounds into this year.

The use of calorie counting, for what I expend and eat, with a intermitted KETO diet, and increased exercise, helped immensely. Surprisingly, the sleep tracking helped getting better rest. So now I have kept it off, the last few weeks.

Fitbit, and or the process of accounting for everything, such as food and water, and calorie burning, with daily weights, and exercise, keeps the weight off. If I have a "cheat" day, like on a date night, I can make up those extra calories so as not to gain weight over the next few days, or simply stay in deficit over the week, and have a weekend with space for a few extra calories. 

Looking at all that I eat, has really helped improve my diet for the better, as far as being healthy, and balanced. So it seems to be the piece to the puzzle that was missing, to lead a healthier lifestyle. 

I am a 51 year old veteran, which can pass the Army Physical Fitness standards, as well as height and weight standards.

[Danp]

I got my new Fitbit for Christmas (my old one went through the washer a few years back).   On 12/26 I logged 10k steps and have been a lunatic about getting in 10k steps.   I also logged every peanut.  I was 214 lbs at Christmas (Thanks COVID!) and I'm down to 199.0 today.  For me, if I am absolutely devoted to getting the steps and logging the intake calories, the weight comes off of me.   There are plateaus I hit, which are frustrating as hell ("WHY isn't my weight going down??"), but then I experience inexplicable drops.   But it's been 15 lbs in less than 2 months.   Results like this must annoy you, and my wife screams about my ability to lose weight, but frankly, I'm obsessive, and I think that works with Fitbit (my kids are sick to death of hearing my calorie totals....).   Hang in there,   Dan

[JojoTerry]

I said I would report back AND Yayyyyyy🥳🥳🥳, done it,! Today I lost the last 5lbs to reach my target of 12st/168 lbs  in fact, I lost 7lbs so I'm under my target weight. In total I've lost 77lbs since 4 March last year 💪🏾

The hard work of 'maintaining' my weight begins 😳