According to all I read my net calories are far to low!

lucan07

Having been active with a physical job when younger I was always fairly fit but heavy set 90-95kg, then I took an office job and gained a bit of weight which I could control. However then I had a large chunk of bowel removed due to illness and spent a long time on prescription steroids whilst being inactive I ballooned to 140kg as a result I also gained steroid induced type 2 diabetes. I managed to reverse the type 2 when I stopped taking steroids but spent two years on chemotherapy drugs and recovering from major surgery I managed to get weight down to 121kg with diet alone as exercise was a problem due to major post surgery hernias.

I have started exercising now I am able following a partially successful hernia repair but weights are out so I use a rowing machine, cross trainer, exercise bike, walking and cycling. My diet is fairly limited due to medical problems and budget but I have no trouble having my five a day most days even if frozen veg are the norm.

My problem is that when I get to the end of the day my net calories are usually well under the suggested level, for example today I have 1300 calories plus 1552 exercise calories having eaten 1767 calories my net is 215 calories, mon 354, sun 1988 (no exercise family function lots of beer), sat 1076, fri 548, thu 335, wed 274.

I know machines and many calculators give high results and use the shapesense.com heart rate exercise calculator then converting the resullt to net calories even assuming these results are a little high my net calories are often extremely low.

The thing is I am noticing the benefits of the exercise, I am now off nearly all medication and losing weight steadily if a little quick 1.2kg per week but have plenty to go, so if my body is reacting well and my health is improving daily is this actually something I should worry about? All food is weighed accurately and everything is logged even the beer on sunday.