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WEIGHT MANAGEMENT
Polar Balance provides you with a personalized prescription on how to lose or maintain weight. It is based on
your personal and physical information, activity background, the amount of weight you wish to lose and the
time you wish to lose it in. There is no need for separate food diaries or calorie intake estimations. When
starting you choose the amount of weight you want to lose, and the time in which you wish to lose it. The
maximum amount of weight you can choose to lose is 10 percent of your body weight. In addition, your weight
target cannot be below normal weight (BMI<18.5).
The difference between the calories you have eaten and burned is estimated from your daily energy
expenditure and weight change. Based on this information you get a daily energy deficit you should follow to
reach your target. 60 percent of your daily energy deficit is achieved by eating less, and 40 percent by
increasing daily activity. In order to reach your weight target you need to meet both requirements.
Polar Balance gives you a daily activity based calorie target, and also it also tells you how many calories less
you should eat per day. In addition, you get suggestions on how to reach your daily activity target through
minutes of light (UP), moderate (WALK), or vigorous (JOG) activity as well as examples of foods that make
up the amount of calories you need to get rid of.
It is important that you weigh yourself and sync your weight to the weight management service every day.
Based on your body weight trend, the activity and nutrition recommendations can be automatically updated for
the first time after four days, and after this they will be updated whenever necessary for you to reach your
target. If your weight has not decreased as planned and reaching your target would become unhealthy, you
will receive a new longer time period to achieve your target.
LOSE WEIGHT
If your goal is to lose weight, start by setting a weight target. In order to lose weight you must fulfill the daily
activity goal as well as the calorie deficit.
SET WEIGHT TARGET
When setting a weight target, the wizard will tell you what the recommended period to lose the amount is. It
will not let you set a time period that is too short.
1. Click Set new weight target.
2. Choose the amount of weight you wish to lose.
3. Choose the time in which you want to lose it.
4. Click Set new weight target.
ADJUST WEIGHT TARGET
If at some point you wish to change your weight target you can do it by choosing Adjust weight target.
