New here, any pointers or any encouragement?

[Rylan09]

Hi im new to the smart watch community. I need help losing weight. I have fitbit sense. Can i get any pointers please? Or incuragement

Thank you

Moderator edit: subject updated for clarity

[emili]

Welcome to the community @Rylan09 . The first step was to get yourself a buddy that can paint the picture of what you are doing for your lifestyle. Now that you have done that, you should work out specifically what you would like to do. Are you going to lose weight through diet alone? Are you going to start in the kitchen and finesse it in the gym? Give us a bit more so we can try to help. 

[DavideFitbit]

Welcome to the Community forums @Rylan09!  

I'm sure you'll be able to find lots of topics here about loosing weight and staying healthy! You can find friends to add and start new challenges. Here are some threads of the discussion forums where you can find many people to add as friends: 

• Looking for Fitbit Friends? Find some here!
• Come say hi & introduce yourself

[Heybales]

The device will assist with getting hopefully a decent estimate of what you burn.

For starters that is it's purpose. It may help you move more if it inspires you.

To lose fat weight you just need to eat less than that amount you burn by a reasonable deficit.

Make it unreasonable and that will include muscle mass you'll wish you had now and later since it's so much easier to lose it than to gain it.

To make sure you are eating less, biggest tip is accuracy in food logging.

So many unknowns or allowed inaccuracies, don't add to it by sloppy logging.

Get a food scale, Log by weight everything that goes in your mouth.

You eat 50g of cereal, divide by the 30g/serving and log 1.67 servings - confirm the database entry matches the nutrition label 1st.

Figure out what fills you up, and what ends up being empty calories for you that makes you hungry.

Some empty calories still fine if you remain in control and rest of your diet allows getting nutritional needs in.

But if you can't eat just say 15 chips from a bag without going through the whole thing - avoid them until you learn how.

Swap what you can, maybe a nightly piece of dark chocolate is enough, but a big bag of M&M's disappears in total.

Avoid extremes that you can't maintain, sustain, or adhere to.

What's the good of a diet if you reach goal weight and can't stay there because you can't keep eating the way you were?

Doing an exercise you'll keep at is better than one that may be good in general but you hate doing.

[DavideFitbit]

Thank you for sharing those great tips @Heybales! 😀 

[Rylan09]

Thank you im going to get the scale and try it

[DavideFitbit]

Great, let us know about your progress @Rylan09!