About Dominique

Feel free to vote here: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Suggestions/NET-Carbs-instead-of-Carbs/idi-p/1892404 ... View more

Looks like, given your (petite) size, you are not nearly active enough in order to be able to lose the 8-10 pounds in the time you want and in a sustainable way (i.e. being able to eat a decent amount of food). I’ll try to illustrate this making a few assumptions about yourself and using this online calculator. Let’s assume you are 20-yo, currently 123 lbs and lightly active (2nd lowest activity level out of five). This would result in a calculated BMR of 1249 (almost exactly what you reported) and in total calories burned (TDEE) of 1718. This is slightly higher than the 1600 calories you reportedly burn, but your actual activity level may be closer to sedentary, based on the step count that appears in your profile: The low step count may of course be cause by recent confinement policies, if you happen to live in an affected area. Yes, you did say you work out daily, but working out often and overall activity are two different things. Using the above assumptions, if you increased your overall activity level to "high" (second highest), your TDEE would be 2155. With a 750 deficit, this would leave you 1405 calories to eat. This would also be higher than your BMR (many people – me included – believe you should always eat at least your BMR). You may also want to consider whether it’s a good idea to want to lose the 8-10 lbs so fast: why not use a smaller deficit and give it a bit more time? If I got it all wrong (age, weight, activity), provide the actual numbers, so we don’t have to make guesses. The Fitbit eating plan doesn’t have any "safety guardrails", other than the deficit being capped at 1000 calories. I believe MyFitnessPal won’t let you create a plan that has you eat less than 1200 calories. Weight loss really is a numbers game, especially for young and healthy individuals (which is what I believe you are), who don’t have to cope with medical conditions, hormonal issues etc. You have to pick up numbers that result in something realistic and sustainable. ... View more

@Rvfarley wrote: I’m 5’10" 250 pounds generally get 18,000-25,000 steps depending on the day Have you recently increased your activity level? Asking as your profile reports significantly less than that: 18-25k steps is quite a lot for someone weighing 250 lbs. ... View more

Just use the generic "Workout" activity. Or maybe "Yoga" (this too would be low impact). Impacts aren’t the only factor used by Fitbit to assess an activity. There’s also your heart rate (if supported by your tracker), the velocity of your movements etc. And even if you were doing three weekly sessions of 45 minutes (which is quite a lot, for calisthenics), that would still be only 135 minutes out (1.3%) of the 10,080 total minutes there’s in a week. ... View more

@FrenchUSA wrote: i thought we was texting good, u just stopped replying me, are u good? i actually needed advise, what do you really do indoors if u dont have any gym equipment to keep your soul and rest, and have a good nice sleep ? This is what you write about yourself in your profile: One would therefore think you know the answers to the questions you are asking. Please note that the community forums are not a place for dating, nor for promoting your own business. ... View more

@BeccaT62 wrote: Let me know if you see a change. If you do a lot of people can benefit from this information. You could yourself provide more information about what you did and what results you got. All you’ve said so far was: "I started the enzymes and am down 2 pounds in 2 days." Any weight change in a mere 2 days is likely to be mostly water. It would be interesting to know when you started taking the enzymes and what results you have seen over a long enough period of time (several weeks/months). ... View more

So you’ve lost 13 lbs (9.2% of your starting weight) in 10 weeks (i.e. about 1.3 lbs per week, or about 1% of your body weight), which is pretty much on the high end of recommendations, especially since you didn’t start from an overweight situation (BMI at start of weight loss: 24.0).You should now switch to maintenance, so as to rebuild your metabolism, which was reduced (as expected) by the weight loss you just underwent. Your current BMI is now 21.8, which is a pretty good place to be IMO. If/when you want to lose even more, you can resume your weight loss in 3-4 months. By then, you will be in a better position, metabolically speaking. ... View more

I would check the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet as two "heart-friendly" ways of eating. Doctors are usually concerned by elevated cholesterol because of the higher risk for heart disease. Do you carry extra weight and is your lifestyle mostly sedentary? If so, losing weight and increasing your physical activity can be part of the solution for both conditions. ... View more

@Idlewylde wrote: Hi Emili, How do I find the Get Inspired board? I've tried searching the Community but nothing comes up. Here you are (it’s actually "Be inspired"): https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Be-Inspired/bd-p/greet There is a navigation bar at the top: Community > Health & Wellness > Get Moving Just click one level up (Health & Wellness). ... View more

Fitbit sets default goals for a lot of metrics. For instance, 10,000 for steps, 30 for active minutes etc. You can change these defaults if you want. This can be done in the app on your mobile device. ... View more

Did you create yourself an eating plan? This is done in the app, not on your watch. ... View more

Goal: lose between 0.25 and 0.50 kg per week (i.e. down to 58-61 kg). Week 0, 30-Dec-19: 64.0 kg, 2594 cal, 14.9k steps, 16.3% Week 1, 6-Jan-20: 63.7 kg, 2781 cal, 16.8k steps, 16.2%, -0.36 kg Week 2, 13-Jan-20: 63.3 kg, 2853 cal, 17.7k steps, 15.9%, -0.37 kg Week 3, 20-Jan-20: 63.4 kg, 2901 cal, 20.0k steps, 15.9%, +0.09 kg Week 4, 27-Jan-20: 62.6 kg, 3044 cal, 20.9k steps, 15.7%, -0.77 kg Week 5, 3-Feb-20: 62.0 kg, 2685 cal, 15.8k steps, 15.9%, -0.59 kg Week 6, 10-Feb-20: 61.8 kg, 2837 cal, 18.9k steps, 15.9%, -0.20 kg Week 7, 17-Feb-20: 61.5 kg, 2702 cal, 16.5k steps, 15.7%, -0.29 kg Week 8, 24-Feb-20: 61.7 kg, 2692 cal, 15.8k steps, 15.5%, +0.20 kg Week 9, 2-Mar-20: 62.1 kg, 2612 cal, 15.7k steps, 15.6%, +0.37 kg Week 10, 9-Mar-20: 61.7 kg, 2677 cal, 17.2k steps, 15.6%, -0.40 kg Week 11, 16-Mar-20: 61.6 kg, 2923 cal, 20.3k steps, 15.5%, -0.09 kg Hardly any change during the past week (-0.1 kg), but at least it’s a loss. Average loss so far is only 0.22 kg per week, which is disappointing . However, there are still two weeks left during this challenge. ... View more

How long does it take you to burn 1000 calories while jogging in place? And how many calories do you burn in 30 minutes while pedalling on your exercise bike? Energy expenditure is a function of time and intensity. If you want to compare both activities, record them as such on your Fitbit for the same time (e.g. 30 minutes). Then show us the corresponding graphs and stats. ... View more

First of all, a variation of 6 lbs in a week (whether it’s a gain or a loss) is not likely to come primarily from actual tissue, i.e. fat and muscle, but rather from water. You would need a daily surplus of 3000 calories in order to achieve such a gain. Doesn’t mean you haven’t been binging, just that the binging can’t have been as consequential as you think. As to gaining muscle, here again, there’s only so much you can gain in a few weeks, even when doing a lot of sport. And why would you hate that anyway? One year ago (April 2019), you said you were 120 lbs and wanted to be 105 lbs. According to your profile, you’re 5’2" tall, which means your BMI at 120 is 21.9 (right in the middle of the normal weight range) and at 105 it would be 19.2 (close to underweight). According to your profile, you’re 15 years old. This means you are likely still growing. You should focus on eating a good diet and living a healthy active livestyle rather than obsess about an arbitrary weight goal (especially an unrealistically low one). ... View more

Welcome to the community, @Nichlk ! Feel free to contribute your knowledge, personal experience etc. on the forums. If, OTOH, you are a nutrition coach (or similar) looking for new clients, please note solicitation of community members and promotion of your services would violate the community guidelines. ... View more

@Vinny0158 wrote: I have a versa 2 watch connected to my phone and I walk every night approximately 5 miles but I have not ever seen it calibrate my calories what’s wrong with this? I must admit I don’t understand the "calorie calibration" part. Once you’ve created your account and connected your tracker to it, Fitbit "knows" your personal data (age, gender, height, weight) and its algorithm starts estimating calories based on detected activity, heart rate etc. What do calories look like during your nightly walks? Do they look wrong to you? Too high, too low? ... View more

Goal: lose between 0.25 and 0.50 kg per week (i.e. down to 58-61 kg). Week 0, 30-Dec-19: 64.0 kg, 2594 cal, 14.9k steps, 16.3% Week 1, 6-Jan-20: 63.7 kg, 2781 cal, 16.8k steps, 16.2%, -0.36 kg Week 2, 13-Jan-20: 63.3 kg, 2853 cal, 17.7k steps, 15.9%, -0.37 kg Week 3, 20-Jan-20: 63.4 kg, 2901 cal, 20.0k steps, 15.9%, +0.09 kg Week 4, 27-Jan-20: 62.6 kg, 3044 cal, 20.9k steps, 15.7%, -0.77 kg Week 5, 3-Feb-20: 62.0 kg, 2685 cal, 15.8k steps, 15.9%, -0.59 kg Week 6, 10-Feb-20: 61.8 kg, 2837 cal, 18.9k steps, 15.9%, -0.20 kg Week 7, 17-Feb-20: 61.5 kg, 2702 cal, 16.5k steps, 15.7%, -0.29 kg Week 8, 24-Feb-20: 61.7 kg, 2692 cal, 15.8k steps, 15.5%, +0.20 kg Week 9, 2-Mar-20: 62.1 kg, 2612 cal, 15.7k steps, 15.6%, +0.37 kg Week 10, 9-Mar-20: 61.7 kg, 2677 cal, 17.2k steps, 15.6%, -0.40 kg I didn’t report last week, which wasn’t great (+0.4 kg increase). The past week has been better (0.4 kg), but I’m still more or less at the same point as one month ago, so not really happy about it. Total loss since start of the challenge is only 2.3 kg, i.e. a paltry 0.23 kg average loss per week, which is now below the lower end of my target range. I’ll try to do better during the last three weeks of this challenge. ... View more

Did you check the help article on the matter? ... View more

I can’t say my sleep is great, but based on my own experience, I’d say "poor" is indeed "poor", but "fair" is rather euphemistic and Fitbit’s way not to discourage us. I’m getting a mix of "fair" and "good" (about 50-50), with only one "poor" this year so far. This is with an average time asleep of 6h30-7h00, which I know is not sufficient. You probably have even less than that. I would work on improving sleep: your daytime sleepiness clearly points to a need for that. ... View more

@rinaldojonathan wrote: I hate vegetables Looks like you’re from Indonesia. If so, you have access to plenty of delicious and healthy food, including lots of fresh vegetables. Take advantage of it. Obesity rate in Indonesia: 6.9% (in USA: 36.2%). Average BMI in Indonesia: 22.9 (in USA: 28.8). Source. You live in an environment that makes it easier to maintain a healthy weight, take advantage of it. ... View more

@rinaldojonathan wrote: but the side effects are, now I sleep more at the day. any solution for that? I would say day-time sleepiness is more related to poor-quality and/or insufficient sleep than to diet. If you have increased your activity level, you may need more/better sleep in order to fully recover. What does your Fitbit tell you about your sleep? ... View more

Body composition just doesn’t change in a few days, or even in a few weeks. What you observed with your gym’s device is merely proof of the limitations of BIA as a technology (regardless of the bold claims InBody makes on their site) for estimating lean mass vs. fat mass. While nutrition does play a role in body composition, nutrient timing (e.g. fasting once in a while, or skipping breakfast) is not among the key factors. Energy balance (calories) and macronutrients (e.g. protein intake) are far more important. Therefore I wouldn’t "switch things up" based on the numbers you saw at the gym. If you know you are doing the right things for your goals in terms of exercising and nutrition, just keep doing it. Consistency is what brings results, over time. ... View more

Fitbit (app / account) neither "knows" nor guesses anything about your body fat %. It just stores whatever estimate comes from a compatible scale or is manually entered by you. A Fitbit scale (or any similar scale from another manufacturer) estimates your body fat % using bioelectrical impedance analysis. Usually, the body fat % estimate goes down when you lose weight, and vice-versa. However, "estimate" cannot be stressed enough, the number isn’t necessarily/always accurate. ... View more

@Skaerven wrote: All your food should come from the refrigerator or freezer, not the pantry. Weird claim. I’ll note that: 1) refrigerators/freezers are a relatively recent invention: they’ve only been around for a few decades, while modern homo sapiens has somehow been coping without them for thousands of years, 2) those parts of the world (= rich countries) that have the highest rate of equipment in such appliances also have the highest rate of obesity and obesity-related diseases. Healthy or unhealthy eating doesn’t depend on whether your food comes from the fridge or the pantry. As to saturated fats, they may be your friend, but I’ll personally choose not to ignore the overwhelming scientific evidence that link them to cardiovascular diseases. I do eat butter and full-fat cheese, but in moderation. No way I’d be making them the center of my diet. ... View more

Here are the bold claims made by the manufacturer of this supplement: and: However, here is what the small print disclaimer says at the very bottom: This product has not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. I wouldn’t waste my money on this (or any other similar) supplement. When something sounds too good to be true, it usually isn’t true. There is just no magical pill for hypertension, high cholesterol, insuline resistance etc. For less sexy, but reliable, science-based sources of information: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pressure/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20373417 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-cholesterol/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20350806 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/metabolic-syndrome/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20351921 ... View more

@Emmy_M wrote: Unfortunately, I'm unable to include a picture In order to include a picture, just click on the camera symbol of the toolbar: The toolbar will look differently if you’re posting from a mobile device, but even on such a device, the reduced toolbar will include a camera symbol. After clicking on the camera symbol, point to the screenshot you took (taking screenshots depends on the type of mobile device you’re using, google it if you don’t know how to do it on yours) from the Fitbit app and you will get something looking like this: My own EOV curves are also always in the low, green area. I take it this means I don’t experience particular breathing problems during sleep. ... View more

@MaryKDS wrote: Yes I have a blank graph. But I have a Blaze. Then it’s to be expected: ... View more

Energy expenditure (the fancy name for "burning calories") is affected by time and intensity. If you want to burn a lot of calories in as little time as possible (if it’s what you consider to be "quick calorie burning"), you need to pick up a very intense activity (e.g. rope skipping). If, OTOH, you have plenty of time at your disposal, you can pick up a low-intensity activity (e.g. walking) and do it for a long period of time. The Compendium of Physical Activities lists many activities of various intensity. Use the number in the METS column to determine how intense any given activity is. For instance, rope skipping is 12.3, while walking at 2.5 mph is 3.0, so 5 minutes of rope skipping would burn about as much as 20 minutes of walking. Now you see how low-intensity activities are usually better for burning calories: many people can walk for one hour at 2.5 mph (even if they carry extra weight and aren’t particularly fit), while few people can sustain rope skipping for 15 minutes straight (or even in a HIIT fashion, with pauses in-between). For cardio fitness, it’s an entirely different discussion. Here, I’m talking about burning calories. ... View more

@Deroy wrote: What am I missing? Probably what they say in the terms of service: Free Trials. From time to time, we may offer free trials of certain Subscriptions for specified periods of time without payment. If we offer you a free trial, the specific terms of your free trial will be provided in the marketing materials describing the particular trial. Once your free trial ends, we (or our third-party payment processor) will begin billing your designated payment method on a recurring basis for your Subscription (plus any applicable taxes and other charges) for as long as your Subscription continues, unless you cancel your Subscription prior to the end of your free trial. Instructions for canceling your Subscription are described in the sections above. To avoid any charges, you must cancel your Subscription before the end of your free trial period. Before charging you at the end of the your free trial period, we will notify you of the applicable fees. ... View more

It’s a very new feature, the help article is less than one month old. Just be patient, you will eventually get it. I remember the same happened with sleep score last summer: other peope got it several weeks before me, but in the end, I also got it. If that really bothers you, try contacting Fitbit support and ask them. ... View more

AFAIK, Fiitbit lets you choose from 4 different "intensities": Easier, Medium, Kinda hard, Harder. The corresponding deficits are: -250, -500, -750, -1000. You’ll have to pick up the plan with the deficit closest to the one you have in mind, or use another app that lets you specify the exact deficit you want. The energy expenditure used by Fitbit is an estimate anyway. ... View more

Welcome to the community, @jasmin97 ! When you say you started a diet 38 days ago, can you be more specific about it? Did you change what you eat, how much you eat, or both? Or do you rely on your increased activity (the 3 x 1.5 h workouts every week) to burn the extra calories needed for weight loss to happen? As @bigjim1002 noted, diet is much more important for weight loss than exercising. Let me illustrate this with numbers: let’s assume your BMR per hour (what you burn doing nothing, by merely being alive) is 50 calories and your workouts cause you to burn 5 times that (quite challenging to sustain that for 1.5 hours at a time). By doing nothing, you would burn 3 x 50 x 1.5 = 225 calories. By performing your workouts, you would burn 3 x 250 x 1.5 = 1125 calories. That’s an extra 1125 - 225 = 900 calories at the weekly levelworking out compared to being a couch potato. In other works an extra 900 / 7 = 129 calories each day. 129 calories is very little, knowing that you need a daily deficit of 500 calories in order to lose 1 pound (less than 0.5 kg) per week. Furthermore, working out often makes you hungry, and also make you feel you deserve a reward for it (like eating a treat). This is not to say working out is pointless: only that its primary benefits are for health and fitness, not for weight loss. Let me also address something commonly suggested by well-meaning people: the idea that the lack of weight loss could be explained by a gain of muscle offsetting a loss of fat. Well, it’s very unlikely, especially in less than two months (gaining muscle is a very slow process). You could have switched to the absolute best diet and the absolute best workout programme, have exceptional genetics and you would still not gain any appreciable amount of muscle in two months time. So if your body weight is unchanged, it just means you have been eating at maintenance. Two months is long enough to take into account normal daily fluctuations (and for women, the impact of their hormonal cycle). If you want to see changes on the scale, you need to make some changes to your diet and/or your activity level. Tell us more about what you are currently doing and you may get suggestions as to what changes you could make. ... View more

Tracy Morris is a contributor to Fitbit’s blog. She’s a dietitian with a degree in nutrition and dietetics, so I’m sure the advice she gives is legit and valid. I quickly browsed through all of her writing on Fitbit’s blog and I couldn’t find any mention of a "7 Day Kick Start Diet". Where did you find it? The name itself seems to contradict what she’s about. Why would you need to "kick start" things in seven days? Why not just start eating in a sensible way, following her advice and the advice of other qualified people? Healthy eating is about developing good habits that will make it into your lifestyle and stick. You can do it one day at a time, slowly but surely. ... View more

A Fitbit moderator wrote a couple of months ago that "this feature has been rolled out to a small percentage of users". I believe roll outs have more to do with the region/country where you live rather than with the particular device you are using. But it’s possible it hasn’t been rolled out to everyone yet. ... View more

There is no "step mode" vs. "heart mode" in a Fitbit. HR monitoring has to be turned on for sleep stage detection AFAIK, but you probably didn’t turn it off, did you? Did you check this help article? You need at least 3 hours of sleep in order to see sleep stages. Did you try to restart your Versa? Is your wife still getting a sleep score? ... View more

Thanks for bringing my attention on EOV, I somehow had missed the announcement about the whole thing, and hadn’t noticed there was some more stuff after the "sleeping heart rate" graph. Unfortunately, I can’t answer your question, as I’ve never been involved with CPAP machines and my EOV graphs all seem to be pretty much flat in the low variation area. I would imagine a single spike now and then would not be of concern / would not warrant a sleep study. ... View more

@Ihatecardio wrote: I can’t really tell if I’ve lost weight What’s wrong with using a scale? Wouldn’t it precisely tell you whether or not you’ve lost weight? I understand weight can fluctuate day-to-day (as well as on a monthly basis, for menstruating women), but two months would be long enough to establish any meaningful change in body weight. The other thing, of course, is whether losing weight needs to be a concern at all for you: your current BMI at 156cm/47kg is 19.3, which is quite thin already (to the point of being close to underweight). IBS is indeed a serious issue, so finding a way to eat that mitigates it would be more important than losing weight IMO. ... View more

Goal: lose between 0.25 and 0.50 kg per week (i.e. down to 58-61 kg). Week 0, 30-Dec-19: 64.0 kg, 2594 cal, 14.9k steps, 16.3% Week 1, 6-Jan-20: 63.7 kg, 2781 cal, 16.8k steps, 16.2%, -0.36 kg Week 2, 13-Jan-20: 63.3 kg, 2853 cal, 17.7k steps, 15.9%, -0.37 kg Week 3, 20-Jan-20: 63.4 kg, 2901 cal, 20.0k steps, 15.9%, +0.09 kg Week 4, 27-Jan-20: 62.6 kg, 3044 cal, 20.9k steps, 15.7%, -0.77 kg Week 5, 3-Feb-20: 62.0 kg, 2685 cal, 15.8k steps, 15.9%, -0.59 kg Week 6, 10-Feb-20: 61.8 kg, 2837 cal, 18.9k steps, 15.9%, -0.20 kg Week 7, 17-Feb-20: 61.5 kg, 2702 cal, 16.5k steps, 15.7%, -0.29 kg Week 8, 24-Feb-20: 61.7 kg, 2692 cal, 15.8k steps, 15.5%, +0.20 kg Not a good week, with a gain of 0.2 kg. OK, it’s not big, but a gain nevertheless. I’ll try to improve my game. ... View more

What is your aim with the 1000 calorie workout? Was it done on the treadmill (I can’t think of another way to send step counts "through the roof" at the gym)? Do you intend to do it everyday? ... View more

Wow, you’re the overachiever among us, @shm ! Congrats for reaching your stated goal so ahead of time! I agree it would be perfectly fine to keep going from here. ... View more