Calorie Counting Addict??

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  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    edited April 2017
    Rajions wrote: »
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Rajions wrote: »
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Why are you trying to eat under your bmr?

    That's how you create a deficit to lose weight... If I eat at my bmr, then it will maintain my weight. I don't want that.

    No, no it's not. Bmr is what your body requires to function, at rest. Lying in bed all day. Doing diddly squat. You don't do that, you get up and move around just to do life (using more calories), then you add excercise ok top (which uses more again). Please don't eat under your bmr.
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Rajions wrote: »
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Why are you trying to eat under your bmr?

    That's how you create a deficit to lose weight... If I eat at my bmr, then it will maintain my weight. I don't want that.

    No, no it's not. Bmr is what your body requires to function, at rest. Lying in bed all day. Doing diddly squat. You don't do that, you get up and move around just to do life (using more calories), then you add excercise ok top (which uses more again). Please don't eat under your bmr.

    My Fitbit tracks my calories and I burn between 1800-1900 a day.. and when I workout it can get up to 2200.. I don't always eat under my bmr when I workout, but when I don't I eat under that.

    You want to eat under your TDEE-Total Daily Energy Expenditure, which is the end number your fitbit gives you. There is zero need to eat under your BMR.

    My BMR is 1400 something calories, this is what i'd burn sitting on my butt all day with no movement or exercise. I have never eaten under 1600 calories to lose weight.
  • Rajions
    Rajions Posts: 128 Member
    cerise_noir wrote: »
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Rajions wrote: »
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Rajions wrote: »
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Why are you trying to eat under your bmr?

    That's how you create a deficit to lose weight... If I eat at my bmr, then it will maintain my weight. I don't want that.

    No, no it's not. Bmr is what your body requires to function, at rest. Lying in bed all day. Doing diddly squat. You don't do that, you get up and move around just to do life (using more calories), then you add excercise ok top (which uses more again). Please don't eat under your bmr.
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Rajions wrote: »
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Why are you trying to eat under your bmr?

    That's how you create a deficit to lose weight... If I eat at my bmr, then it will maintain my weight. I don't want that.

    No, no it's not. Bmr is what your body requires to function, at rest. Lying in bed all day. Doing diddly squat. You don't do that, you get up and move around just to do life (using more calories), then you add excercise ok top (which uses more again). Please don't eat under your bmr.

    My Fitbit tracks my calories and I burn between 1800-1900 a day.. and when I workout it can get up to 2200.. I don't always eat under my bmr when I workout, but when I don't I eat under that.

    Thats not your bmr.

    Agreed. OP, you're referring to TDEE, not BMR. TDEE is total calories burned in a day. To lose weight we eat under this number. BMR is the calories we'd be fed if in a coma- the calories we'd need to consume for our body to function without movement, to maintain.

    Anyone telling you to "eat under BMR" has BMR and TDEE utterly confused.

    Thank you. I will take note of that.
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