Can this be right??

MartinWardPhoto

I understand how the CHR works and includes BMR in its calculations but can I really have burned over 4000 calories in 1 day?

I'm a wedding photographer and had a 13 hour day yesterday, I took just under 10000 steps and other than that I was carrying around my camera kit in a backpack.

Looked at the graphs, thr higher burns seem to correlate properly with the times I was busy.

The count just seems massive, I'm male,31, 220lbs at 5'9. I use this with myfitnesspal trying to lose 1.5lbs a week which gives me 1800 calories for the day now I'm getting a bit confused as I don't want to eat to little but also don't want to eat too much.

MFP set on sedentry, I was given almost 2000 extra calories. I've worked out my BMR to be circa 2300.

editorgrrl

1,800 calories?! I weigh a hundred pounds less than you, I have a desk job, and I eat 1,800 calories a day.

Set your goal to .5 lb. per week for every 25 lbs. you're overweight and eat back your adjustments for several weeks. Then reevaluate your progress.

Food is fuel. We should all be looking for the maximum number of calories at which we lose weight—never the minimum.

heybales

Your BMR if you slept all day would cause 2300 calorie burn, and likely within 5% accurate.

You moving around 220 lbs plus equipment for 13 hours, burning about 1700 more - oh yeah, big time easy.

And that 1800 calorie goal, was on sedentary days only with nothing being done above sedentary all day.

MFP includes NO exercise in it's eating goal that would increase your daily burn to calculate your eating level.
You do more, you burn more, you eat more - same deficit.
Fitbit is just informing MFP of a best estimate of what you burned that day, exercise or anything else included.
1.5 lbs weekly probably only going to be reasonable down to 210, maybe 200, then back off to 1 lb weekly.

dannyoneillmfp

Hi Martin. Wedding videographer here.

Yeah, totally doable. On any active day I can hit 3800 burn and on a wedding day I can easily break the 4000 mark.

Since getting the charge hr I realised just how much I'm burning and why I used to hit a wall as I wasn't eating enough and my metabolism would just shut down.

Eat back your exercise calories and do as mfp says and you should be cosmic.

Since having the fitbit I've learned that the less you eat doesn't mean the more you loose.

MartinWardPhoto

Hey guys,

Thanks for the replies, it's good to know that maybe I'm not as crazy as I had first feared.

I've been losing at the 1800 calorie mark and was scared to eat into the massive massive counts. Although, my scale hasn't moved in the passed week!

I went golfing today and after having had my 3 meals I've still got 1700 calories to eat, I've eaten 1920, can I really still lose eating 3000 calories?

I'm 220 just now, I want to get to 190/180 so at the moment I've got 1.5lbs a week but will knock that down to 1lbs at 200-205.

kaclever

My husband is 33, 5'11, and about 225 right now. So basically you except he's a desk jockey. He says he gets about 2600 calories a day according to his FitBit Flex when he has it set to lose (I think) 1.5 lbs a week (he doesn't use MFP, just FB).

That's before any significant "activity." He's been eating back his exercise calories for a few weeks now and has been losing an average of 2 lb/week.

I kind of hate you both, LOL. (I'm not quite 5'3" and my pre-activity target is 1290/day). But my FB did prompt MFP to allot me more calories on most days than it did before I got my Zip. And lo and behold, my stupid plateau finally ended and I've been losing at a slow & steady rate since. I thought those people who said "eat more to lose" were bonkers, but I guess not always.

Eat up!

editorgrrl

MartinWardPhoto wrote: »

I've been losing at the 1800 calorie mark and was scared to eat into the massive massive counts. Although, my scale hasn't moved in the passed week!

Weight loss is not linear. Some weeks you do everything right but maintain—or even gain. Others you lose a whole lot in a "whoosh."

dannyoneillmfp

After 36 years I finally got fed up with my weight. Ive been as low as 11% body fat and 11st and now im upto 17st (down from my high of 18st 6lb). I got a personal trainer to get me on track with workouts and diet. The diet part was actually really simple. No starchy cabs after 5pm. So no pasta, bread, rice, potatoes etc. Thats it, none after 5pm.

They are calorie dense foods and at that time of the day you dont need them. You should eat your main meal in the middle of the day and keep it light at the end. It has stopped my food cravings, ended my dependence on sugar and its as simple as that really. I can still eat whatever I like in the day. Ideally staying away from sugar but I dont feel like I need it anymore.

Why dont weight watchers, cambridge and all the others do this? Because there is no money to be made and commercial diets exist to make money. and ive learnt that commercial diets arent best for weight loss, they are best at making people money. They promise that you can eat whatever you like and you dont count calories (instead you count points, WTF!). But they fail as you tend to save up all your points by eating nothing all day so you can have a big blowout at the end of the day. Where the energy all gets converted into fat and stored on your belly, *kitten* and butt.

Whatever calories you have to eat try and do them before 5pm. After that its not going to end well.

glassyo

I'm sorry but where did your trainer get his/her registered dietician's license? Jack in the Box?

dannyoneillmfp

Do you plan on saying any more than that or do you normally just drive by, shout out your opinion and drive off?

More diet advice will come as I reach specific goals but the first one, drop the late night carbs. What else I eat is currently down to me.

Did your mother ever teach you that if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all.

How about a 'Well done, you've found something which finally works for you after all these years'. or 'congratulations on your weight loss and improving your overall fitness'.

FishyK

Well, I appreciate this! Every body is different. I have found in general that reducing carb consumption decreases my appetite, and I try to avoid them, especially after 5 pm. Congrats on your weight loss and fitness!

glassyo

dannyoneillmfp wrote: »

Do you plan on saying any more than that or do you normally just drive by, shout out your opinion and drive off?

More diet advice will come as I reach specific goals but the first one, drop the late night carbs. What else I eat is currently down to me.

Did your mother ever teach you that if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all.

How about a 'Well done, you've found something which finally works for you after all these years'. or 'congratulations on your weight loss and improving your overall fitness'.

I was on my tablet and exercising at the same time so yeah, that was about it.

I'm glad it's working for you but that's not sound advice for everyone. I like my carbs and eat most of my food a couple hours right up until bedtime at around 1:00 am and, now that I have my exercise calories under control again, have been losing weight just fine. Actually more than fine. Actually...where was this "losing weight just fine" thing 20 lbs ago!

They promise that you can eat whatever you like and you dont count calories (instead you count points, WTF!). But they fail as you tend to save up all your points by eating nothing all day so you can have a big blowout at the end of the day. Where the energy all gets converted into fat and stored on your belly, ***** and butt.

I lost the bulk of my weight on Weight Watchers (I did it on my own tho) and yes, I think it's kind of dumb when people say it's easier to calculate points than count calories when it's all getting logged somewhere, but WW has a formula that takes calories into account the long way around. So saving up your points is still the same (more or less) as saving up your calories.

I actually don't have a problem with places llike WW or Jenny Craig charging money to help you lose weight since some people need the support they give to help them.

And that energy all being turning into fat is a load of crap. It only happens if you go over your calorie limit.

So, yeah, that was my initial reaction to your personal trainer's advice.

Again, I'm glad it worked for you. Counting points, then counting calories, worked for me.

editorgrrl

You lose weight by eating fewer calories than you burn—period.