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[M-and-B]

I have been walking 10,000-15,000 steps every day for 2 weeks and I have put on .5 kilos

[Stephen1227]

I would keep walking provided you are medically cleared to do so.  Are you getting enough water every day?  Are you limiting or avoiding refined sugar and fatty foods?  Is your diet well balanced.  Do you take in less calories than you burn?  Have you had a recent medical checkup?  And finally, do you do other forms of exercise and vary your walking speed?  Don't give up! 

[Heybales]

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@M-and-B wrote:

I have been walking 10,000-15,000 steps every day for 2 weeks and I have put on .5 kilos

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That's great, sounds like new physical activity then, at much higher levels than previously?

You don't comment if that's good or bad or who cares. Might be little more verbose, unless you purely wanted to let us know.

Your body's response to that - store more carbs to go the distance. Carbs store in the muscles with water.

Additionally, if getting warm doing it compared ot prior, body increases blood volume to aid in cooling, and getting the oxygen to where it needs to be - more water there too.

Exercise is for body improvement and heart health, and rarely has weight loss as side effect, rather weight gain.

Are you actually eating less than you burn though? As that is the only way to lose weight.

[Vorberger]

Hi, keep it up, a word of warning about fitbit - it overcalculates the number of calories that you have burned by a country mile. I have a Polar heart monitor, I've also got a different make of device (but takes the signal from the same heart strap) and these are accurate - for an average person. So, the other day, I went for a 2 hour walk, non-stop. Had my heart monitor on and it registered 726 calories burned. Fitbit calculated it at over a 1000. So, be wary. The 0.5kilo might actually be a bit of muscling up - muscle weighs heavier than fat. Keep an accurate food diary and calculate fitbits calories down by 15% minimum.

What fitbit is excellent for is showing your inactivity. Try to use it to set hourly goals - I have an office job and found that I was sitting for hours on end at my desk. So, I chose a printer at the end of the office (120 steps there, 120 back) as a default. I go to the toilet and the kitchen on the next floor down - 168 steps each way. I cycle to work most days but when I come in the car, I park at the far end of the large car park and it is 1634 steps to my desk.

Keep it up.

[whome]

Not to dispute what @Vorberger says about what he has found about his calorie burn but this may be a YMMV sort of thing. I find that the Fitbit system seems to undercount the calories burnt for me much of the time. Either way it works out for you, it is still a useful tool for you to keep track of your activity and calorie intake. 

Good luck

[smhermione]

For me, I always have to make sure I am logging my food acurately or I will gain weight no matter how much exercise I do.  Remember that exercise is only one side of the weight loss coin.  If you don't track your food you'll have no idea if you are over or under eating.

[LewWagner]

Whome,

How does one mark their question as solved or even set up their post as a possible solution for others to accept?

Lew

[gerrymcd]

Good that you are more active.  But you didn't mention your diet.  Walking 10 to 15k steps will burn about 300 - 700 calories.  But, the increased activity can lead to increased appetite.  Its quite easy to eat this number of calories worth of pasta/bread/candy and barely notice! 

[whome]

@LewWagner - I see that 4 people have marked that a post of your's has been a solution to their question. just posting a comment in the thread gives the OP a chance to mark it solved, I think. 

Keep up your good work, I am sure many more than just I appreciate it.

[Heybales]

2 calories burn estimates.

If they are different - then the lower one must be more accurate? How is that logical?

Why wouldn't you say the HRM is off big time, and the Fitbit is more correct?

You might be surprised about how HRM's work and make their estimate too.

You have a nicer Polar that has the required VO2max stat and self-test, or the cheaper one without it, making a bunch of assumptions?

For instance, the cheaper one without that stat assumes if your BMI (height & weight) is in the bad range (age and gender) then your VO2 and fitness level is bad too.

So it sets a low VO2max to base calories on.

Of course the HRmax figure is calculated too, 220-age, and that has more change of being off by 10 bpm than being within the range, that also is used for calorie estimate.

If your stride length is actually correct, and the Fitbit saw the right distance walked, and your weight is correct - the formula's it is using are more correct than HRM.

This study with even a nicer Polar with lab entered stats shows how off it can be, and especially with the Polar used stats.

http://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2004&issue=08000&article=00024&type=...

Well, studies have shown that walking between 2-4 mph level, and basing calculations on formula's, is much more accurate than the 15-25% accuracy a HRM may get if properly set up. And that's 15-25% either direction, not just inflated. 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15570150 

(4.2 kJ is 1 calorie. Notice the energy expenditure on treadmill and track is almost equal.) 

That test Walking was 3.2 mph level for 1 mile for 19 min, calculation was 3.4 calories higher than tested 81 cal, or 4.2% higher. 
Running at 6.3 mph level for 1 mile for 9.5 min, calculation was 4.8 calories lower than tested 115 cal, or 4.2% lower. 

So you can see how close your HRM was to a better reality than. Perhaps it was very close - I'm betting not though.

http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/WalkRunMETs.html

[Dominique]

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@M-and-B wrote:

I have been walking 10,000-15,000 steps every day for 2 weeks and I have put on .5 kilos

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2 weeks is a rather short time (to expect results one way or the other), and 0.5 kg is a very small variation in two weeks, well within the normal range of fluctuation.

I gained 2 kg in just one week:

Friday was my carb refeed day (= leads to water retention). I ate unusually salty food - bacon, smoked salmon - on Saturday (= even more water retention). 66-68 kg is my normal range of fluctuation at the moment.

Keep moving, regardless of what the scale says! You know it's the right thing to do in any case.