Body media band for TDEE
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The 2 calculations were rather far apart: Navy = 55.44, Covert Bailey = 32.00, Average = 43.20.
Calculated Cunninham RMR = 1625.
The sleep part is interesting. Now that it is summer, I sleep with a fan on and usually wake up cold, then cover up and get hot, throw off a blanket and get cold, rinse and repeat all night long. Not sure how to measure that though.0 -
The 2 calculations were rather far apart: Navy = 55.44, Covert Bailey = 32.00, Average = 43.20.
Calculated Cunninham RMR = 1625.
The sleep part is interesting. Now that it is summer, I sleep with a fan on and usually wake up cold, then cover up and get hot, throw off a blanket and get cold, rinse and repeat all night long. Not sure how to measure that though.
So you are going to be a case of continually improving accuracy, unless you pop for a Bodpod test.
After you drop some inches, you'll usually find one of those calc's moves a whole lot more than the other, and since they mainly use different body parts for estimate, you'll likely know exactly which part saw the most drop.
Usually the slow moving side of the range is closer to reality. And indeed the avg will move that direction slowly.
So for a while, in theory it could appear you are gaining BF%, though inches are dropping. It's just becoming more accurate.
Which could mean you'd be adjusting the height every 2 weeks as inches drop.
But I'd suggest that since it has already adjusted the RMR to what appears to be a decent estimate - skip the height change, the sensors are working for you.
Interesting that the Cunningham RMR is pretty close to the BMF daytime RMR.
Since night time BMR is only 8 hrs of day or less, and even some of that may not be that far off, not a big impact.
Depending on your workouts, I'd suggest least adjustments better, so Method 2 if at least half your exercise is what it's good at measuring.
Just keep looking at those daytime sitting cal/min burns to see if it's adjusting as the Cunningham seems to adjust too.0 -
Great! Thanks HeyBales! Glad to know it's not as far off as I was thinking.0
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So the tested results are...1580! Yay, more food! Test was easy, cheap ($45), and only took ten minutes. I highly recommend it.I just got a bodymedia (well the gowear) and it seems accurate. I've had it about two weeks. Most days I burn about 2160 calories, which is about my calculated TDEE. On more active days, it's closer to 2600 calories. I'm 5'5.5", currently 131 lbs and approximately 20% BF. There doesn't seem to be a huge difference between my BMR and RMR. BMR is about 0.95 calories/miin and RMR is closer to 1.05. However, that's ~1360 for BMR and ~1500 for RMR, which actually does make sense.
I'm getting my RMR tested today, so I can report here how close that 1500 is to actual. I do love this thing. I wish it were smaller and could be worn somewhere else, but I love it. And I love the idea of eating 2000 calories to get to my goal of 18% BF. I've been eating closer to 1800 most days, but now that I realize that's probably too big a deficit for what I want, I'm trying to get closer to 2000.0 -
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