The FastDay Forum

Hey...where is everybody? I know some of you are out there pounding the pavement or if lucky, the beach.

The Fitbit Group is up to 30 members now. Who do you want to catch? What is your inspiration to move? Personally, my inspiration continues to be the little messages of encouragement my fitbit sends me. I also have come to really enjoy my "quiet time" when I am out walking. Late hours at work are going to challenge my time this week, but will hopefully have a nice weekend to achieve my goals.

Note to all our fellow 5:2ers. PM anyone on this thread if you would like to join our group. Warning: it is not for the faint of heart!

[Betsysgr8]

Hey there Linda! I'm just quietly trying to slowly increase my steps without letting my knees know what I'm doing. lol I don't know where everybody gets all the stairs?! I guess I just live in a very flat area and I don't really go anywhere but walks around the neighborhood.

Just keep at it Betsy. The doctors want to replace my knees but I'm trying to hold out until right before I retire. Hoping the one time replacement will make it the rest of my life...and they keep inventing better knees anyway, ha!

I don't do stairs unless absolutely no ramps around, (or to get my 50 flights badge if I'm close). The walking really has made my knees stronger though. I'm also taking the Glucosamine/Condroition supplements as well, which I feel like make a notable difference.

Your secret is safe with us, so keep up the progress!

Woohoo we made it to thirty members! Should we have a fitbit party to celebrate?

I had a busy weekend but still managed to mostly meet my goals. My quiet time is now. in the morning when my husband has gone to work and my daughter is still fast asleep. i watch a program and do my jogging on the spot. I still haven't progressed to real jogging yet, but I hope to soon.

I had a few days where i didn't get my morning hour of exercise in and I was busy scrambling at the end of the day to make my steps up. I chose to stay an extra hour in bed those days and it really had a negative impact on my day. So now I've decided that even as little as 6 hours of sleep and then exercise is preferable to staying in bed. I feel so much better that way.

My knees complain too and my feet. I wear compression socks which help and supports on my knees. I am in love with the sketchers go walk shoes. They are unbelievably comfy and i wear them in the house all the time. I've just ordered the go run ones too. Have any of you tried cider vinegar for joint pain? I've heard good reviews about it.

Well enough rambling for now. I will be back later to post my weekly stats. Have a lovely day everyone

I have just bought a fitbit flex. I love it. I have it linked to other apps. Is very motivational. I must find how to join your group.

Good Morning Fitbitters,

I'm back running again after a hamstring pull, so I'm getting my steps up again Yay. I am also getting my weekly reports again and last week I did 90,928 steps,an average of 12,990 a day, which worked out as a daily average of 5.68 miles and 1990 calories.

Hi convert522, I have my fitbit linked up to MyFitnessPal, and through MFP to both Runtastic and Runkeeper, although I have stopped using the GPS apps for running since I got my eBay Garmin Forerunner watch, which (you guessed it) syncs with Fitbit as well.

Umleila I lived in my Go Walks all summer its now too wet to wear them outside every day now, but I guess that isn't going to be a problem for you in Saudi

Great news that you're back running SianS I wear the go walks indoors only as I can't go barefooted anymore unfortunately and we don't wear outdoor shoes inside the house. I think I might even splurge out again and get an outdoor pair along with the go runs that are on the way. There are some on eBay for twenty pounds which is a bargain.

Can you tell me more about the watch SianS please?

Hi and congrats on your new flex Convert522 you can join our group by sending anyone in this thread a pm with your email and they will send you an invite. I hope to see you there soon.

[carieoates]

Hello everybody. My current goal is - remember to put my fitbit on. It's spent many a half day sitting in my dressing gown pocket. My other official goal is to continue the couch to 5 k. today is week 1 day 3. Sundays 1 min jogs flew by, I was tempte to push it a bit longer, but my inner grown up told me to do as I'm told, have a long stretch and get on with the ironing. So no aches and pains, hoorah.
Great to see you back up the leader board SianS

Hi Umleila,
I hadn't realised about not wearing outdoor shoes, indoors, but it is very sensible and hygenic. We do it on an informal basis.

Having bored people over on the "Any Runners thread" with accounts of various apps on my not-very-smart phone failing and leaving me either without a GPS tracker or music or both. I decided that a proper runner's GPS watch was the answer,(I like to track where I've been, pace, time etc, a bit like we feel we haven't done the steps if Fitbit hasn't recorded them.)
After some research on eBay I decided on either a Forerunner 10, which is newer, simpler, cheaper, but less available 2nd hand; or a Forerunner 110, which is older,a bit more fiddly, more expensive but there are more of them about.
I got the 110 and, it arrived the morning I pulled my hamstring.
Since then I have finally managed to work out how to use it and am after 2 runs very pleased with it. Hope that helps

Hi all - I have been diligently using my fitbit but not synching it every day as I have to do it on my laptop and it takes as long to crank it up as it used to one of those old victrolas (anyone remember them? ).

Anyway, I have also bitten the bullet and started tracking my food consumption on MFP (doing the best I can and relying on "good faith" guesses where I really don't know what is in something I have eaten). I have figured out how to sync the fitbit to MFP but I don't understand the "fitbit Calorie Adjustment" in MFP. Does MFP make its own estimate of calories burned and adjust according to the fitbit data?

Another question I have relates to TDEE - my fitbit "goal" is 2,184 calories burned every day - is this my TDEE according to fitbit? Even if I walk 20,000 + steps in a day I still struggle to get this, though I usually break 2,000 a day or close to it. MFP, on the other hand, says I need 1,700 calories to maintain my weight (I programmed it to use that number instead of the calorie total to lose weight because I fast 2 days a week). Does anyone know if these 2 figures are meant to be reconciled?

I'm finding it easy to get my 10,000 steps per day now - if I'm running low by the end of the day then after the kids are in bed I put a TV show on my iPad (I'm watching West Wing and Foyle's War at the moment) and, while holding the iPad I walk around the bedroom. I look like a total idiot but I can easily smash through 5,000 steps in one episode

Hi Mummybunny,

I will try and answer based on how I understand these things work, but would be very happy to be corrected.

On MFP the "fitbit adjustment" takes the actual calories you have used (based on the steps and any over-riding activities you have entered on Fitbit) and adds them to teh calories it estimates you have used for the day.
Today mine says - Fitbit Calories burned - 2196, MFP calories burned - 1605, Fitbit adjustment - 591. If Fitbit logs less than the MFP estimate it can do a negative adjustment, which I think I opted not to allow (its been ages since I set all this up).

I assume that my TDEE is the figure calculated by Fitbit as the number of calories I use in a day. My daily average last week was 1990, so I'm taking that as my TDEE.
Hope that helps

Welcome to @fitfunk our newest member. Hope to see you on here and the board soon

Well, after two weeks staying the same weight and getting to beneath my second goal weight I have decided to call it maintenece now and not to try and lose anymore, I think fasting for the month of Ramadan gave me a false idea of how low my weight could actually go, but my total calorie intake at that time must have been so low compared to normal.

Thankfully I know the fitbit is still helping me change my body shape and I'm still losing inches. They are slowly but surely shifting on my saddlebags (6 inches in total). I think that's the stair climbing!

I'm still going to fast on the two days just up my calories like I did this week.

Here are my stats for last week. I guess from my stats my tdee is around 2000 a day. Does everyone he think the fitbit is the most accurate judge of tdee or are there better places or gadgets for that?

TOTAL STEPS
140,529 DAILY AVERAGE
20,076 steps
BEST DAY
22,647 steps
TOTAL DISTANCE
64.66 miles DAILY AVERAGE
9.24 miles
BEST DAY
10.37 miles
TOTAL FLOORS CLIMBED
340 DAILY AVERAGE
49 floors
BEST DAY
59 floors
TOTAL CALS BURNED
15,773 DAILY AVERAGE
2,253 cals
BEST DAY
2,316 cals
WEIGHT CHANGE
0 st 0.0 lb LIGHTEST
0 st 8.4 lb
HEAVIEST
0 st 8.6 lb
AVG SLEEP DURATION
6 hrs 26 min AVG TIMES AWAKENED
8
AVG TIME

Hello fitbitters
I've been very busy with work and steps so I can't even write a long post. I can just say that I'm happy that I can really eat now more and that this week I'm trying 6:1 again for maintanance. I tried it before but it didn't work, however now that I'm so much more active it might... Let's see.
Here are my stats for last week:


Hi Einat B., here are your weekly stats.
9/09/2013 to 9/15/2013
WEEK'S MOST ACTIVE DAY
Sun, Sep 15 WEEK'S LEAST ACTIVE DAY
Thu, Sep 12
TOTAL STEPS
159,094 DAILY AVERAGE
22,728 steps
BEST DAY
23,151 steps
TOTAL DISTANCE
120.06 km DAILY AVERAGE
17.15 km
BEST DAY
17.40 km
TOTAL FLOORS CLIMBED
215 DAILY AVERAGE
31 floors
BEST DAY
55 floors
TOTAL CALS BURNED
15,615 DAILY AVERAGE
2,231 cals
BEST DAY
2,368 cals
WEIGHT CHANGE
0.1 kg LIGHTEST
50.7 kg
HEAVIEST
52.2 kg
AVG SLEEP DURATION
-- hrs -- min Seems like you haven't
tracked your sleep.
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So I eat around 2000 cals 6 days a week and 500 one day this will total at 12500, still well below the 15600 weekly calorie burned. I really hope this will work.

Welcome fitfunk and convert522!

I'm still plugging along...maybe in a bit of a fit funk myself. Not sure what my deal is...but, I'm still doing it. Even if it isn't always enthusiastically. That's the thing about weight loss, fitness, and sometimes life in general...the only "magic" trick is to just keep going even if/when you don't necessarily feel like it.

Yeh. I managed 10000 steps today. Had to turn back at first from my walk to drop the lazy dog home! I'm not too upset at not getting the steps on work days as I have been biking to work. Only about 200cals per day. Fitbit only gets my calories from MFP. I tried putting it in my sock but the fitbit didn't pick up each pedal. I thought it might. Tomorrow I must try not to sit and read all day.