Calorie goal too high !?

Sued0nim

cdmaso01 wrote: »

rabbitjb wrote: »

For the same reason I didn't

I carry weight well

But also I have a great self body image

Looking back to 50 odd pounds ago though, it's amazing how many of my photos make me look a fat that I never felt

That said your calorie goal is still a good start

So good luck

Thanks for the clarification and sorry for being defensive I am just very sensitive about my weight

Sweetie, it's fine ...don't worry about it

If you want to do this ...you can

You sound like you have amazing building blocks in activity and exercise...you just need to get your calories in line to lose the weight ...weigh everything, log accurately to your defecit across the week...and then keep your calories to maintain

If you need help just ask...there's loads of knowledgeable people who enjoy helping others achieve what they've finally managed to do

kamack1215

cdmaso01 wrote: »

MissTattoo wrote: »

She wasn't calling you fat. She was just giving you the clinical definition of obese, which you are. That doesn't mean you need a flat bed to pick you up out of a chair. It's just according to the all knowing chart of weight/height, you'd be considered obese. It's not an insult. I hope that helps and gets the thread back on track.

Well I guess my question then is if I am clinically u call obese then why don't I look it ?

As a nurse, I am sure you come across many cases like this on a daily basis. If you look at my profile picture the picture on the left I am only 11 pounds away from being classified as morbidly obese (BMI of 40 or greater) and the photo on the right I am 38 pounds lighter but still obese. There is a huge difference between the BMI definition of obesity than the social definition of obesity. One may be obese according to the, should I say out of date and wack, BMI calculator but when looking at a social definition of obese may not appear to be obese. This has nothing to do with the look of you or the things you are able to do (I am a black belt in TKD and was able to drop kick a 6foot tall person with ease but yet I was almost morbidly obese; I am 5'2).

i think what people were getting at it yes, based on your stats and the BMI calculator that was created decades ago, you would be considered obese but not everyone who is obese actually looks obese.

I am assuming you are new to MFP as this is in the Getting Started message board. There is a learning curve that I had to go through when first starting and trying to learn exactly what people were talking about. I found terms here are used on their literal meaning. I hope this helps to clarify some things!

Oh and in response to your original post, no, if you are active 1800 calories seems like a very reasonable number. I am lightly active, 5'2, 160.7lbs and to loose 1lbs a week I eat 1510 calories.

CoffeeNCardio

shadow2soul wrote: »

It's a TDEE calculator that is calling itself a BMR calculator.

My bad! I probably should have mentioned there's some minutiae to making that one work!

CoffeeNCardio

Actually BMI was created in the nineteenth century, by a Belgian statistician named Adolphe Quetelet for gauging population-wide BMI in order to better distribute resources so half the people weren't starving to death and the other half weren't morbidly overweight. But what @kamack1215 said is STILL true. We don't go solely by a BMI calculator anymore than we go solely by how we look to ourselves. And while the BMI may not bode true for an outlier person (like the two examples she gave), it's a good non-specific, mildly accurate number to keep in mind. It's not the end all be all, and the word "obese" in medical terms so doesn't mean what we imagine when we picture "obese" in our heads, but it's stil worth noting and paying attention to either way. Since you're sensitive about it, I would say just check back with it every so often, and try to focus on healthy eating and exercise and then it'll be a pleasant surprise when your BMI reads better a few months from now! As opposed to a monkey of self-esteem issues on your back throughout your journey.

Edited because: I couldn't get the quote thing to work right and could my grammar/spelling have been any more atrocious?