BMR?

abbiez
abbiez Posts: 229 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
if my BMR is 1,320 cals daily is that what I should be eating? Or am I still okay to eat 1200.. confused!

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  • Eava57
    Eava57 Posts: 1,297 Member
    Go to the "help me understand something"on the homepage...there is a discussion about calories and exercise that may help you.
  • nikki91950
    nikki91950 Posts: 647
    if i'm not mistaken, your BMR is the amount of calories needed per day to make your body maintain your current weight :)
  • abbiez
    abbiez Posts: 229 Member
    thanks Nikki! that helped a bunch!
  • iambrandice
    iambrandice Posts: 157 Member
    I'm pretty sure that's what you burn daily, not including all the physical activity you do, such as walking and stuff. That's why we need a little more than that to maintain our weight. But we have to eat a little less so when the body needs energy it takes some of our fat cells and uses it for energy, so aren't giving our body exactly the right amount of food for energy, so it uses our fat for energy, therefore we lose weight. But IF we aren't eating enough calories, it will have to make our fat cells last as long as possible, because it is trying to preserve them for energy usage, therefore we won't lose as much weight and go into starvation mode.
  • abbiez
    abbiez Posts: 229 Member
    hmm bk, i see. so if my bmr is 1320 do you think i should be eating that? MFP has me set at 1200 but i dont wanna hold on to fat!!
  • nikki91950
    nikki91950 Posts: 647
    when you exercise, and log those burned calories, make sure to eat some of those calories back. i would use 1200 as a base on days you don't do any type of extra exercise. and i mean exercise other than stuff like walking around at work or whatever, because your body gets used to that since it does it every day, and it stops burning a lot of calories from it.
  • abbiez
    abbiez Posts: 229 Member
    Yeah that's what I've been doing and when I calculated my BMR and it said that's what I need to function, I got nervous haha. Thanks !
  • nikki91950
    nikki91950 Posts: 647
    sure thing :)
  • Ryhenblue
    Ryhenblue Posts: 390 Member
    Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is the amount of energy expended while at rest in a neutrally temperate environment, in the post-absorptive state (meaning that the digestive system is inactive, which requires about twelve hours of fasting in humans). The release of energy in this state is sufficient only for the functioning of the vital organs, the heart, lungs and kidneys and the rest of the nervous system, intestine, liver, lungs, sex organs, muscles and skin.

    If you're finding it hard to lose, I'd set your goal to 1/2lbs a week since you have less than 20lbs. The less weight you have to lose the slower it comes off.
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