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Very interesting stuff going on today. After my new low weigh in last night I ate a bunch of great food, but not up to the limit of my metabolizing it all. Did not want to push it as I was unsure about how close the FitBit and my treadmill agreed on calorie burn. Got the answer today, though.
So I got up and weighed 204.8. No problem. I ate a lot last night (until 10pm) and I was still in the middle of my 16:8 fast.
I ran some errands. Got some new summer shorts and shirts as the old ones are all too big. Got home and started experimenting with my FitBit versus the way I have been logging calories.
For my weight lifting workout, I used to record 400 calories but after a while I got scared that I was overestimating so I had my wife time me during each exercise and determined that my actual time lifting was about 20 minutes all together. So I changed my calorie burn to 200 calories. That has been several months. In fact, I went back and edited all those previous entries about a month or two ago.
So today, I was wearing the FitBit and I recorded exactly where I was before starting the weight lifting and where I was afterwards. I went from 1098 calories burned today to 1579 calories burned -- 481 calories! I was actually much closer at my old recording mark of 400 calories.
Up next was the treadmill. Last night. I had my treadmill set at its usual 10 degree incline and I did my usual hour with a reported calorie burn of 825 calories on the treadmill. FitBit said I only burned 562. However, I was wondering if the FitBit was recording the difference between a flat surface and the incline.
To test this, today I set the treadmill at a flat incline. I felt like I was walking downhill! In fact, I had to adjust my speed from my usual 4mph to a range of 4.5 to 5 mph just to feel like I was doing something! And although I had done the weight lifting, I barely broke a sweat after 30 minutes. My headband, which usually gets so soaked after 30 minutes that I need to change it, was not even damp. The incline has a huge effect on my workout but what would the numbers say? Before getting on the treadmill, the FitBit recorded 1587 calories burned, 2.44 miles for the day, and 3961 steps. I did my 30 minutes on the treadmill as described above and the treadmill reported 330 calories burned at about an average of 4.5 mph. I then looked at the FitBit Dashboard and it said I had burned 327 calories in 32 minutes and had gone 2.45 miles. Amazing! The calories and minutes nearly matched the treadmill report exactly and if you consider I did 30 minutes at about 4.5 mph, the resulting 2.45 miles works out, too!
So, I am convinced of a few things: The FitBit is accurate and tracks my exercise well, even though I hold on to the side rails of my treadmill when working out (i.e., you don't need to swing your arms to get it to work right). But the FitBit assumes you are walking on a level plane and has no way of knowing you are going uphill. Since I am getting a calorie bonus I didn't know about during weight lifting, I think what I will do going forward is just use the FitBit calorie burn numbers for both the weight lifting and treadmill work. It will even out in the end. Until such time that I get a FitBit scale, I'll be entering everything into FatSecret manually anyway. Great to know the FitBit works. And a relief to know I was not cheating myself by over reporting calorie burn before.
So... on to the results. I get up, weigh 204.8, don't eat anything, work out, and do not get ready to eat until about 3:30 pm. I hop on the scale to get some good news and... 206.2! What? After 202.6 last night, 17.5 hours of fasting, and a workout? Oh, well. My body's way of not letting me get too cocky.
Here are the 5/17/14 Tanita Numbers (post 16:8 fast, post 812 calorie combined workout):
Weight - 206.2
Goal Weight (10% BF) - 194.4
Total body fat % - 15.5
Total body fat lbs. - 31.2
Total body water % - 61.5
Visceral fat rating - 9
Muscle mass lbs. - 166.4
Physique rating - 6
Bone mass lbs. - 8.6
Daily calories: 4088 (RDI 2297)
Metabolic age - 22
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2016 kcal
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Fat: 68.73g | Prot: 188.85g | Carbs: 189.76g.
Breakfast: Coffee-Mate Sugar Free Hazelnut Liquid Coffee Creamer, La Croix Cranberry Raspberry Flavored Sparkling Water, Syntrax Nectar Fuzzy Navel Whey Protein Isolate, Dannon Oikos Greek Nonfat Yogurt - Plain, Bear naked Bear Naked Peak Protein Original, Navitas Naturals Organic Raw Chia Seeds, Organic India Whole Husk Psyllium, Now Real Food Golden Flax Seeds. Lunch: Nature Valley Protein Chewy Bars - Peanut, Almond & Dark Chocolate, Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh Mesquite Turkey Breast. Dinner: Pork Chops (Top Loin, Boneless), Brussels Sprouts. Snacks/Other: Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Intense Dark 72%, Safeway Unsweetened Mixed Berries, Syntrax Nectar Fuzzy Navel Whey Protein Isolate, Kale, Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Unsweetened Vanilla Milk, Hershey's Natural Unsweetened Cocoa, Seapoint Farms Dry Roasted Edamame - Lightly Salted, Strawberries, One A Day Men's Health Formula Multivitamin Supplement, Member's Mark Omega 3 Fish Oil (1000 mg). more...
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3006 kcal
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Exercise:
Walking (moderate) - 3/mph - 27 minutes, Weight Training (moderate) - 50 minutes, Walking (brisk) - 4/mph - 41 minutes, Resting - 14 hours and 13 minutes, Sleeping - 7 hours and 49 minutes. more...
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