site tells me to eat almost 3k cals a day,,,but I eat half that and still dont loose
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I have mine set at sedentary also. 3,000 calories seems like alot. 2,000 should be max.0
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Looks to me like the O.P. is trolling just to start an argument. He doesn't want answers. He just wants to argue with anyone who responds regardless of what they say.0
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Humm....so if I say 140 pounds is where I want to be...dont add in my exercise??? man I'd be burning half of what I eat and probably have no energy???0
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Well maybe not...that would be like 2100...but I bet I'm still under that most days a week...plus again I do cardio 7 days a week....and not walking cardio...lol also weights and work0
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Jnv....dont reply then...its really that easy-1
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I don't eat ANY oatmeal. And I'm overweight. Must be why I'm losing weight and YOU'RE NOT. BAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
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Shai....i won't waste my time replying to you....you are really not worth the effort 0
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itsbasschick wrote: »
I already said this, where's my credit? ;(0 -
The "method" my doctor & dietician use is this:
this is the appropriate method if utilizing TDEE method, as your intake already takes into account average exercise. This is the incorrect way to do it if utilizing net method, which the website is designed to do automatically.Don't eat back your exercise calories.
find a healthy goal weight based on BMI
multiply that by 10
eat that many calories
If someone is starting off very heavy (more than 100 lb overweight), so that method #1 would result in a drop of more than 1000 cal per day, they do this:
multiply your current weight by 10
subtract 1000
eat that many calories
as you lose weight, adjust calories downward until you get to (healthy goal weight) x 10
When I first started, method #2 was about 100 cal more than method #1 for me.
Now I'm using the simple way, though I'm thinking about tweaking it down by 50 cal or so. Still a healthy goal weight.
Note that this is for _losing_ weight.
Maintaining will take 13 - 15 cal per lb, depending on activity level.
That method would certainly not be healthy for everyone. I lose weight rapidly at 1500-1600 NET, so I cannot even imagine how my body would react to 1300 calories a day with my goal being 130Ibs, at 5'10.
And if someone short has a goal of 98 Ibs, they should be existing on 980 calories per day ?
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I've not looked at your diary, but might you be over exercising as compared to the amount of food you eat? Some folks can't lose because they do not have enough of a deficit. Some folks can't lose because they have too large a deficit?
That's such a ridiculous thing to say....."Some folks can't lose because they have too large a deficit"........how many fat Ethiopians in 1984?0 -
The "method" my doctor & dietician use is this:
this is the appropriate method if utilizing TDEE method, as your intake already takes into account average exercise. This is the incorrect way to do it if utilizing net method, which the website is designed to do automatically.Don't eat back your exercise calories.
find a healthy goal weight based on BMI
multiply that by 10
eat that many calories
If someone is starting off very heavy (more than 100 lb overweight), so that method #1 would result in a drop of more than 1000 cal per day, they do this:
multiply your current weight by 10
subtract 1000
eat that many calories
as you lose weight, adjust calories downward until you get to (healthy goal weight) x 10
When I first started, method #2 was about 100 cal more than method #1 for me.
Now I'm using the simple way, though I'm thinking about tweaking it down by 50 cal or so. Still a healthy goal weight.
Note that this is for _losing_ weight.
Maintaining will take 13 - 15 cal per lb, depending on activity level.
If I were to do this method, I'd be eating 1500 to lose weight. I net 1880, eating up to 2100 with exercise. I've not had any issues losing weight. I am 20lbs from my goal.
A much better way would be to estimate your calorie maintenance needs from a website like exrx.net or health-calc.com and then, if being really good, eat maintenance for a few months. If you maintain, then drop 10-20% from that intake, recalculate every 10lbs lost. This is all to ensure you lose weight on as many calories as possible, making it easier to lower your intake as needed. This is especially important for those of us with body compositional goals in mind. This method can be done by including exercise into the calculation so that you eat the same daily, or without exercise so that you log and eat back exercise calories when exercising. Both shoudl provide a similar intake amount once you average out your week.
Again though, doctors are not educated in a way that gives them an authority for proper weight loss advice. Even dieticians are not all-knowing magical beings. I would personally use advice from a dietician simply for understanding how to balance my macro and micro intake, not for figuring out what my intake should be0 -
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Cvcman, I have a vid for you....
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sCNrK-n68CM 
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Beachedasbro wrote: »Cvcman, I have a vid for you....http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sCNrK-n68CM
lmao!
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I've only read page one so far, but.....
I don't know about the activity setting being set lower. I run 11 to 15 miles a week and heavy weight lift, have my activity level set to active, have a sit down job, and I've been maintaining for a good nine or so months now. When I was losing weight, I had to increase my activity level from sedentary to lightly active because the weight was coming off quicker than I wanted it to, and then up to active when I started maintenance because I was still losing weight and didn't want to.
It seems to me with all the exercise CV does, his activity level is just about right. Therefore, I happen to agree with the "more calories than you think" theory. I have a long history of eating more calorie than I think, especially when I used cups, spoons, hands, and eyeballs as measurement devices.
Also, the MFP database has so many inaccurate entries that it's not even funny. I often enter my own nutrition information under My Foods just to have the correct information. I also do a lot of nutrition data research so that I get the correct entries.
CV, hopefully you've decided to use the food scale and become more judicious with your logging, which would make everything I say here moot.
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I don't know why you want to lose any more weight? 140 pounds and 5' 8".... That's small, weak... If you are as active as you say, you need to eat more to lose more../ your metabolism is not working optimally with the little calories your consuming. If its telling you to eat 3k, then you should eat the 3k, just because you eat half the calories suggested doesn't mean you'll lose more weight faster... In fact the only weight you might lose is pure muscle weight. At your petite size you can't afford to lose any muscle...0
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