These are the things that keep me up at night...

LuvMyCapt

Below are some fun facts about myself:

I am on my 3rd week of EM2WL
38 y/0
219 lbs
6' tall
Female
BMR-1789
TDEE-2773


I feel good about my BMR/ TDEE business and that I have a pretty good handle on them. I am currently eating 2500 cals/day. I go to a light Zumba class 2 days per week, Treadclimber 30 min 2-3x per week trying to do interval intensity. I am starting with a resistance band training video 2/3x per week, but I just received my New Rules of Lifting for Women today! I am hoping to get my Select Tech weights out of storage in the near future. I am using the FitBit, Polar HRM and food scale. Oh yes and I bought the starter kit booklet from the website EM2WL. Well equipped I would say!:happy:

I am not really paying attention to the scale at this point. I have tried, Atkins, Weight Watcher's, HCG, Curves, Johnson's Up Day Down Day, various pills and potions, Juice Fasts, and of course the holy grail...Cabbage Soup.

Here are the questions that keep coming up in my thoughts several times throughout the night.

So I am going for the Metabolic reset strategy, do you agree?

How do you get 10,000 steps a day without doing cardio?

What kind of bread do you eat? I am trying not to avoid any food groups and just eat normal for once!!! So freeing after many years of not!

I don't know how to calculate the calories burned doing the resistance band video or how I am going to calculate calories burned when I get to start lifting.

Thank you so much! I love reading the posts on here (even though I don't understand half of what you are saying.) But I know someone will help me out so I can get a good night sleep for goodness sakes!

jaeone

Hi and welcome!
Great job ignoring the scale for now!! So for your questions:
-Yes, if you have followed all those low cal diets over a long period of time

-I get my steps in by parking farther away, walking on my break, taking the stairs instead if elevator. When your at home on the phone, instead of sitting, walk! Just increase your movement if you did 3000 steps yesterday go for 4000 the next, work your way up. And If you like to do cardio, do it, but it will increase your calorie intake.

-I eat what i like, bagels, wheat bread, italian bread, white bread.... Eat what bread you like In moderation.

-Figure out your TDEE based on the hours of activity performed during the week. Use Scooby calculator. Your calorie burn is included in TDEE. You wont eat back exercise calories.

I hope this helps. You can add me if you like!
Oh and don't let these things keep you up at night! :yawn:

joybedford

Hi I know what you mean about the steps. I have no problem getting in my steps if the children are at school as I walk them to school and it's a 10 minute walk, I do this twice a day so 40 minutes walking. I also walk a lot at work I am a midwife and walking around the ward gets in lots of steps. My problem is days when both me and the children are at home, my kids hate walking complain bitterly about it so that's out of the question. I sometimes take them to the park and sprint back and forth with Lydia on the zip wire. On days I run my step count is much higher. I am new to this group so trying to figure out my TDEE. I have never eaten low calorie though so not doing a reset, you can add me if you like. Good luck.

heybales

For resistance band, don't worry about it unless you are doing like 60 min, then perhaps 30 min of strength training.

When you start lifting, log that manually in Fitbit or MFP since the Fitbit is badly underestimating it.

But indeed, your Fitbit, corrected for things it can't calculate right, is your best TDEE calculator.

But you'll either need to unsync it to maintain a steady MFP goal, or go for slight adjustments around a similar TDEE.

If you want the latter, need what corrected TDEE Fitbit comes up with, along with current MFP BMR.

TDEE / BMR = personal activity factor.
Then set MFP Settings - Diet/Fitness goal to the activity level closest (not above or below, whatever is closest) to your activity factor.
Sedentary - 1.25
Lightly Active - 1.4
Active - 1.6
Very Active - 1.8

Confirm you have negative and positive adjustments on.

So if Fitbit says your normal average TDEE with any needed corrections is 2800, and BMR is 1790, then your activity factor is 1.56.
So set MFP to Active.

Now you'll get minor FitBit adjustments, and you still log manually non-stepped based stuff like strength training.

So you can still plan the day well, but have rest days with some negative, and big workout days with some positives.

Or unsync the accounts, and manually do corrections on Fitbit sites, and just notice if the TDEE is changing from currently used values.

But since you have a tool great at estimating TDEE, I'd suggest skip the rough 5 level table, and just get best estimate, probably why you bought it anyway.