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BMR????? Obviously I don't understand. Help.

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  • kellymarie111
    kellymarie111 Posts: 51 Member
    What do you mean by deficit from your activity?

    Sorry i am just so stuck on all this. It's hard to no what I'm doing wrong or right? And then hen I excercise which is daily then more calories are added to my 1260 so do I eat them as my calories that I've burnt as well? Sorry for sounding stupid unjust have no real clue :-/
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    You have 2 choices--keep your calories at 1260 and eat the extra calories you earn from working out

    Or

    Up your calories to your BMR and eat that amount no matter what. You'll still lose weight because your BMR is not taking into account calories burned from your daily life or from exercise.

    A deficit is when you eat less calories than you burn--say you burn a TOTAL of 2200 and eat 1700 then you have a deficit if 500--do that for 7 days and you lose a pound. 3500 calories worth of deficits will yield 1 pound of weight loss--although the scale doesn't always reflect the loss.

    Make sense?
  • kellymarie111
    kellymarie111 Posts: 51 Member
    FINALLY I understand it! Thanks So much. I think I'll change it to my bmr and that way it won't be to comfusing! Your a legend thanks heaps for taking the time out to write and help me, I really appreciate it :-) x
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    FINALLY I understand it! Thanks So much. I think I'll change it to my bmr and that way it won't be to comfusing! Your a legend thanks heaps for taking the time out to write and help me, I really appreciate it :-) x

    You're very welcome.

    I recommend logging your exercise anyway just for reference. Then you can calculate your predicted loss by adding up the "calories remaining" for the week and dividing by 3500. We can cross that bridge when we come to it.

    Contact me after doing this for 1-2 weeks if you need advice or have questions. but do not change plans sooner than 4-6 weeks because it takes the body time to adjust and reflect the changes that are happening.
  • smilebhappy
    smilebhappy Posts: 811 Member
    bump read later
  • austindog2
    austindog2 Posts: 128
    My BMR is 1560, but MFP had me eating 1360 to lose 1-1.5lbs per week. Just updated it to lose 1lb per week, and my calorie goal went up to 1610. Should I be eating less than that to lose weight? I have a knee injury so I can't exercise more than just walking to class and such... I'm with everyone else, confused!
  • ladyraven68
    ladyraven68 Posts: 2,003 Member
    This confuses me to no end...so I've been keeping my cals anywhere between 1300 and 1500 with and occasional 17-1800 day. Mfp has my cal goal set at 1920 to lose 1.5 lbs a week. I've lost 10 lbs in 3 weeks eating this way and doing 30 DS. Mfp says my BMR is 1819? I don't get it.

    Your BMR is the amount of calories you would need if you stayed in bed all day at rest. As soon as you get out of bed and start moving around, you need more calories.

    The setting you chose (sedentary, lightly active etc) puts your maintenance calories at 2670. MFP then deducted 750 calories to allow for the 1.5 lb loss you selected, and came up with a calorie allowance of 1920.

    you can lose weight eating 1920, there is no requirement for you to drop to 1300.
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