Having a hard time.

ANT98

DeguelloTex wrote: »

If you're not losing as quickly as you'd like, you're not in as big a deficit as you need to be. Your exercise burns look exaggerated. No idea if you're really eating 1500.

Isn't it 1.2 times bmr for sedentary tdee and add on calories burned through exercise? Which gives me roughly 2100

Liftng4Lis

Can you open your diary?

WBB55

alexxazt wrote: »

DeguelloTex wrote: »

If you're not losing as quickly as you'd like, you're not in as big a deficit as you need to be. Your exercise burns look exaggerated. No idea if you're really eating 1500.

Isn't it 1.2 times bmr for sedentary tdee and add on calories burned through exercise? Which gives me roughly 2100

yeah, but I would only "eat back" maybe half of the added exercise calories. So if your BMR is estimated at 1300, you'd eat 1560 plus a max of half your exercise calories.

ANT98

WBB55 wrote: »

alexxazt wrote: »

DeguelloTex wrote: »

If you're not losing as quickly as you'd like, you're not in as big a deficit as you need to be. Your exercise burns look exaggerated. No idea if you're really eating 1500.

Isn't it 1.2 times bmr for sedentary tdee and add on calories burned through exercise? Which gives me roughly 2100

yeah, but I would only "eat back" maybe half of the added exercise calories. So if your BMR is estimated at 1300, you'd eat 1560 plus a max of half your exercise calories.

But I'm not eating any exercise calories back? O.o is that bad or good? I burn 300 a workout. I eat my bmr (~1450). Is this wrong?

captgalactic

Francl27 wrote: »

And yet another poster who completely ignores all the posts asking her how she's sure of her calorie intake and whether she's actually weighing her food...

Clearly it can't be that she's eating too much. Must be the exercise, of course.

Reread her original post...she addressed that in there.

ryanflebbe

Just keep it at 1500. Try to minimize the 100-200 over days. Your diet looks good, you have tightened it up the last few days. Keep that up, and keep exercising hard. You don't have any medical issues that would effect all of this, do you?

Liftng4Lis

I looked at 5 days. Three you were over, one wasn't logged. Tighten up your logging. Where are you logging exercise?

ANT98

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

I looked at 5 days. Three you were over, one wasn't logged. Tighten up your logging. Where are you logging exercise?

I don't log the exercise, only the food. Is it best to log exercise too? Am I supposed to have a certain net goal?

Liftng4Lis

alexxazt wrote: »

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

I looked at 5 days. Three you were over, one wasn't logged. Tighten up your logging. Where are you logging exercise?

I don't log the exercise, only the food. Is it best to log exercise too? Am I supposed to have a certain net goal?

No, if you're following TDEE, then you wouldn't log it. I didn't read all the answers, so I'll assume you're doing this?

ANT98

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

alexxazt wrote: »

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

I looked at 5 days. Three you were over, one wasn't logged. Tighten up your logging. Where are you logging exercise?

I don't log the exercise, only the food. Is it best to log exercise too? Am I supposed to have a certain net goal?

No, if you're following TDEE, then you wouldn't log it. I didn't read all the answers, so I'll assume you're doing this?

Oh okay that's fine. So I'll just try to tighten it up a bit more then

earthnut

If you're not logging accurately, it's very, very easy to underestimate calorie intake. Everyone does it. Hence all the advice to weigh your food. You should at least be measuring by volume and logging everything.

50andfabu

Log food AND exercise as accurately as possible. IT will help you see where you can make adjustments and I find it VERY motivating! Remember, exercise calories are only an estimate so I always err on the low side. If the treadmill says 100 calories, I really only think of it as 75 calories (so when logging, I enter a slightly smaller time on MFP)