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Calorie Counting

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I'm using MyFitnessPal calorie counting app to know how much calories I'm spending every day. It's very convenient, here is the description. It allows making your diet schedule according to your physical activities, strongly recommend to everyone.
 
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Never trust a scale, Kep.

Tuesday, went to my general practitioner, and my weight was 216.x.

Yesterday, went to an orthopedic doctor, and my weight was 210.6.

If you wish to gauge your progress on fat loss, check your waist and hip measurements every two weeks or so.
 
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Weight can fluctuate day to day. Especially if you’re wearing clothes.

Most digital scales are pretty dang accurate and provide repeatable results. Just calibrate it once a year and it will be fine.

But your advice about measurements is good. That helps you gauge fat loss. Especially important if you’re also doing lifting.
 
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Weight can fluctuate day to day. Especially if you’re wearing clothes.

Most digital scales are pretty dang accurate and provide repeatable results. Just calibrate it once a year and it will be fine.

But your advice about measurements is good. That helps you gauge fat loss. Especially important if you’re also doing lifting.

I'm just never sure where to measure my waist and hips. Feels like I measure too high or too low.
 
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Tuesday, went to my general practitioner, and my weight was 216.x.

Yesterday, went to an orthopedic doctor, and my weight was 210.6.

Different scales.

I use the same scale, same time of day. I assume individual data points will have error so I use trendlines. I'm looking for long, long term change. I'm not sweating the data set until I get to around 100 days. For example, my blood pressure data set, which I do use to suggest some decisions, is over 5 years old with a thousand data points.

In general I have a healthy relationship with data. I use it as a pointer, not as an action driver. It suggests things to me, it doesn't order me around and I don't reify it.
 
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I'm just never sure where to measure my waist and hips. Feels like I measure too high or too low.

I didn't even know hips changed. Or is this a euphemism for measuring the butt?

For waist I'm pretty sure where to measure -- it's the maximum point of protrusion. :) But you could use a landmark -- a door knob or something that's fixed height.
 
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Recent days:

Pre-dinner calories
5/28 770
5/29 1340
5/30 440

Weight
5/28 236.4
5/30 235.9

BP
5/28 124/73/59
5/29 116/66/64
5/30 115/70/62
 
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I'm just never sure where to measure my waist and hips. Feels like I measure too high or too low.

Do both. They measure different things. Hips are at the widest part of your hips. Waist is your natural waist, but I've also seen as many say it's your bellybutton.

I'm guessing one measures gut fat (bellybutton) the other gets part of your *** fat.
 
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Do both. They measure different things. Hips are at the widest part of your hips. Waist is your natural waist, but I've also seen as many say it's your bellybutton.

I'm guessing one measures gut fat (bellybutton) the other gets part of your *** fat.

I was never sure WHERE to measure. I always measure waist too high at belly button.
 
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Um you literally do a horizontal circle along your diameter at the height of your bellybutton.

Hips are at the widest part of your hips.
 
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After careful and sophisticated analysis of ones of trials, I conclude that an average crap is 0.5 lbs.
 
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