XP: RMR Test - low or invalid?

dipitie
dipitie Posts: 25 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I was looking to start TDEE - 15% soon. I am currently in a DietBet so I don't want to change anything until it's over. I had some flexible spending money so I went to my local sports medicine clinic to get my RMR tested so i would have a better idea of if I needed to do a reset, how much my TDEE was, etc.

Okay, there were some red flags that I wasn't paying attention to, mostly because I wanted to get the money spent before the end of the healthcare period (our year ends July 31) and I wanted to get it over with. First the tech wanted to cancel because he "wasn't comfortable" but they couldn't find another appointment for me. Then they said they couldn't get the results right away because of computer issues. I said that wasn't a problem because I wasn't going to use the information until August anyway.

So today they emailed me - still don't have the full report, but they told me my resting metabolism was 944 kcal a day. At first I was like, OMG I've ruined my metabolism way more than I thought! Then I started to think that maybe it was so low that it is a mistake. Does anyone have any thoughts? I *think* my food diary is open for anyone to look, I've only been tracking a couple weeks because I was on weight watchers before. I know I was probably eating low cals on Weight Watchers but I did eat all of my weekly points and sometimes then some.

For reference, I'm 40 years old, female, 169 pounds, 5'9". I wear a Fitbit so I don't normally track any exercise on MFP because I'm mostly walking and running.

Would you ask for a retest? Or would you consider those results to be correct and just start a metabolism reset?

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  • SirBonerFart
    SirBonerFart Posts: 1,185 Member
    944 is a mistake you need to have them correct it
  • mrsmarit
    mrsmarit Posts: 229 Member
    I was looking to start TDEE - 15% soon. I am currently in a DietBet so I don't want to change anything until it's over. I had some flexible spending money so I went to my local sports medicine clinic to get my RMR tested so i would have a better idea of if I needed to do a reset, how much my TDEE was, etc.

    Okay, there were some red flags that I wasn't paying attention to, mostly because I wanted to get the money spent before the end of the healthcare period (our year ends July 31) and I wanted to get it over with. First the tech wanted to cancel because he "wasn't comfortable" but they couldn't find another appointment for me. Then they said they couldn't get the results right away because of computer issues. I said that wasn't a problem because I wasn't going to use the information until August anyway.

    So today they emailed me - still don't have the full report, but they told me my resting metabolism was 944 kcal a day. At first I was like, OMG I've ruined my metabolism way more than I thought! Then I started to think that maybe it was so low that it is a mistake. Does anyone have any thoughts? I *think* my food diary is open for anyone to look, I've only been tracking a couple weeks because I was on weight watchers before. I know I was probably eating low cals on Weight Watchers but I did eat all of my weekly points and sometimes then some.

    For reference, I'm 40 years old, female, 169 pounds, 5'9". I wear a Fitbit so I don't normally track any exercise on MFP because I'm mostly walking and running.

    Would you ask for a retest? Or would you consider those results to be correct and just start a metabolism reset?

    If you have a fitbit I would see what your number is from there. That should tell you your TDEE (estimated) and you should be able to calculate the TDEE - 15% from that. It would probably be easier than getting it retested.

    Here is the information I get from Fitbit and how I use it.


    Dates Weekly Daily Average

    7/15-7/21 15228 2175.43
    7/8-7/14 14701 2100.14
    7/1-7/7 13990 1998.57
    6/24-6/30 14440 2062.86
    6/17-6/23 14995 2142.14
    6/10-6/16 14760 2108.57
    6/3-6/9 15344 2192.00
    5/27-6/2 14304 2043.43
    5/20-5/26 15993 2284.71
    5/13-5/19 14795 2113.57
    5/6-5/12 15665 2237.86
    4/22-4/28 15770 2252.86
    4/15-4/21 15136 2162.29
    4/8-4/14 15460 2208.57
    4/1-4/7 14584 2083.43
    3/18-3/24 16942 2420.29
    3/11-3/17 16532 2361.71
    3/4-3/10 15019 2145.57
    2/25-3/3 15817 2259.57
    2/18-2/24 15563 2223.29
    2/11-2/17 15571 2224.43
    2/4-2/10 15568 2224.00
    1/28-2/3 15992 2284.57
    1/21-1/27 15946 2278.00

    2191.16 Daily Average
    438.23 Daily Defecit (20%)
    1752.93 - Daily Goal
    1670.00 MFP Setting
    82.93 Difference

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