New Here - Cant figure this out 😌
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It sounds like you and your mother are so used to how people look when they’re overweight, that the normal/healthy weight range looks weird to you. You’re meant to be able to see someone’s bone structure.
But I can certainly see why getting inside your healthy weight range would be a struggle; at 4’11 you must have a very low calorie requirement! So good luck with at least getting down to 160
@ceiswyn You are probably right but I dont like too many bones showing. Like my collar bone is when ive hit my limit lol. Mfp says if i want to lose 2lbs a week i need 1300 ish cals but i keep burning it off and it keeps going back up so theres no winning
What do you mean by this? Do you mean that you're doing a lot of exercise, and if so how are you calculating your calorie burns?
If you're genuinely eating according to the amount MFP gives you, you should be losing weight, but there are a lot of mistakes people commonly make that can interfere with that; overestimating their exercise, trusting the sizes of packaged goods (a lot of them contain more than they say they do), using bad DB entries, using volume measurements instead of weight, forgetting about cooking oils, that sort of thing.1 -
Do look at your calorie burns for sport again. Given your calorie goal you don't seem to be too heavy. To calculate how much calories you burn walking you use 0.3*weight in lbs*distance walked in miles.
So for the sake of it I just use 200lbs weight.
To burn 900kcal walking you'd need to walk 15 miles.
Torn burn 900kcal when walking and you are 170lbs you'd need to walk 17.6 miles.
@yirara do multiply it times my weight?
Yes, 0.3 times "weight in pounds" times "distance in miles"
Thus for example 0.3 times 170 (pounds) times 5 (miles)2 -
Do look at your calorie burns for sport again. Given your calorie goal you don't seem to be too heavy. To calculate how much calories you burn walking you use 0.3*weight in lbs*distance walked in miles.
So for the sake of it I just use 200lbs weight.
To burn 900kcal walking you'd need to walk 15 miles.
Torn burn 900kcal when walking and you are 170lbs you'd need to walk 17.6 miles.
@yirara do multiply it times my weight?
Yes, 0.3 times "weight in pounds" times "distance in miles"
Thus for example 0.3 times 170 (pounds) times 5 (miles)
@yirara I did notice I have a distance thing on my treadmill I dont even look at the cals cuz its a foreign treadmill so its like Kg or some crap.0 -
Do look at your calorie burns for sport again. Given your calorie goal you don't seem to be too heavy. To calculate how much calories you burn walking you use 0.3*weight in lbs*distance walked in miles.
So for the sake of it I just use 200lbs weight.
To burn 900kcal walking you'd need to walk 15 miles.
Torn burn 900kcal when walking and you are 170lbs you'd need to walk 17.6 miles.
@yirara do multiply it times my weight?
Yes, 0.3 times "weight in pounds" times "distance in miles"
Thus for example 0.3 times 170 (pounds) times 5 (miles)
@yirara I did notice I have a distance thing on my treadmill I dont even look at the cals cuz its a foreign treadmill so its like Kg or some crap.
Could that "crap" be km, kilometres?
It's a very common unit of measurement.3 -
Redordeadhead wrote: »Do look at your calorie burns for sport again. Given your calorie goal you don't seem to be too heavy. To calculate how much calories you burn walking you use 0.3*weight in lbs*distance walked in miles.
So for the sake of it I just use 200lbs weight.
To burn 900kcal walking you'd need to walk 15 miles.
Torn burn 900kcal when walking and you are 170lbs you'd need to walk 17.6 miles.
@yirara do multiply it times my weight?
Yes, 0.3 times "weight in pounds" times "distance in miles"
Thus for example 0.3 times 170 (pounds) times 5 (miles)
@yirara I did notice I have a distance thing on my treadmill I dont even look at the cals cuz its a foreign treadmill so its like Kg or some crap.
Could that "crap" be km, kilometres?
It's a very common unit of measurement.
@yirara i think so - says 67 kg after a half hour. Usually tread at the gym will actuallg say CALS0 -
Redordeadhead wrote: »Do look at your calorie burns for sport again. Given your calorie goal you don't seem to be too heavy. To calculate how much calories you burn walking you use 0.3*weight in lbs*distance walked in miles.
So for the sake of it I just use 200lbs weight.
To burn 900kcal walking you'd need to walk 15 miles.
Torn burn 900kcal when walking and you are 170lbs you'd need to walk 17.6 miles.
@yirara do multiply it times my weight?
Yes, 0.3 times "weight in pounds" times "distance in miles"
Thus for example 0.3 times 170 (pounds) times 5 (miles)
@yirara I did notice I have a distance thing on my treadmill I dont even look at the cals cuz its a foreign treadmill so its like Kg or some crap.
Could that "crap" be km, kilometres?
It's a very common unit of measurement.
@yirara i think so - says 67 kg after a half hour. Usually tread at the gym will actuallg say CALS
I bet it isn't saying 'kg' 1 -
Sorry OP but your post is rather confusing. Correct me if I am wrong
You are 4'11" and 180lbs (that puts you in the obese category) your doctor says you should be 100lbs. The charts show between 100-130 to be in the healthy weight range. You don't want to go lower than 160lbs because you think you will be too bony. So you only want to lose 20lbs and you have set your goal for 2lbs a week.
You say you are burning around 1,200 extra calories per day from exercise and you are in and out of your van delivering parcels so fairly active at work.
You are eating under the 1,200 cals per day given you by MFP and don't feel you can eat that plus some of your exercise calories.
Firstly you must have been eating more than you are now to gain the weight in the first place so you have eaten more in the past and with a more active job you should be able to eat at least the same as you did when you gained the weight.
To get your calories higher the first thing I would do is dump the slim fast, it is expensive and very low calorie. If you like shakes then make your own higher calorie ones. Eat a bit of pizza and a few French fries now and again they are high calorie and you say you like French fries so why not eat them?
Also I think that perhaps you are overestimating your energy burn anyway, 1,200 is pretty high (you would have to be walking 10 miles or more to hit that kind of burn) So I don't think you need to worry about eating ALL those calories back but you should eat at some of them.
So why not try eating 1200 plus say 300 - 500 from the exercise calories given and see how that goes and if you eat calorie dense foods, peanut butter, chocolate, potato, bread, pizza, ice cream etc then you should be able to hit that.
Then see what your weight does over the next 4-6 weeks.
Just for comparison.
I am a sedentary 62 yr female, 5'6 and 183 lbs I eat around 1400 - 1600 plus some or all of any exercise cals given me and lose an average .5 -1 lbs a week. I am aiming for 160lbs (like you) but that is just an interim goal. The healthy weight range for me would be around 135 -145lbs. But I will see how I feel about that when I get closer.
Good luck with working out what is right and healthy for you and remember you need to fuel your body with enough nutritious food each day to keep you going, be kind to your body and it will be kind to you.
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