My BMR seems to change with each calculator...
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First off-- HI EVERYBODY! I'm sure this question has been asked... but now I'm more confused than ever.
My first week of tracking my calories (about a month ago) I lost 3 lbs.
I was eating MAYBE 1200 calories, going to the gym for an hour 4 days a week (burning anywhere from 300-500 calories). I opted not to eat back my exercise calories. So it was a net of 800 calories or so a day...
After a few weeks of the scale not moving, I decided to eat back my calories. Plus I was just miserable & tired & irritable.... After eating back my calories, I still wasn't noticing a change. So I upped it from 1300 to 1450 after doing the math and seeing my BMR is 1446. I've been taking in roughly 1450 for about 2 weeks now. Still no change. No gain, but no loss either. My scale doesn't want to budge from 172.... although my measurements are showing signs of improvement.
Now I'm checking out different calculators, and NONE of my BMR results are below 1500-- even if I select sedentary.
Do I up my calories again to say, maybe 1600, and see what happens? Or do I give my body more time on 1450? Now I'm wondering how I even got 1446 as a BMR to begin with?
FWIW: I'm 28, female, 5'0", 172 lbs right now, and do intense cardio for 45-60 min 4 days/week & I'm starting NROWLFW on April 1st. I used to lift heavy in my early 20s, hoping that it'll somehow come back to me
Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/etc...
My first week of tracking my calories (about a month ago) I lost 3 lbs.
I was eating MAYBE 1200 calories, going to the gym for an hour 4 days a week (burning anywhere from 300-500 calories). I opted not to eat back my exercise calories. So it was a net of 800 calories or so a day...
After a few weeks of the scale not moving, I decided to eat back my calories. Plus I was just miserable & tired & irritable.... After eating back my calories, I still wasn't noticing a change. So I upped it from 1300 to 1450 after doing the math and seeing my BMR is 1446. I've been taking in roughly 1450 for about 2 weeks now. Still no change. No gain, but no loss either. My scale doesn't want to budge from 172.... although my measurements are showing signs of improvement.
Now I'm checking out different calculators, and NONE of my BMR results are below 1500-- even if I select sedentary.
Do I up my calories again to say, maybe 1600, and see what happens? Or do I give my body more time on 1450? Now I'm wondering how I even got 1446 as a BMR to begin with?
FWIW: I'm 28, female, 5'0", 172 lbs right now, and do intense cardio for 45-60 min 4 days/week & I'm starting NROWLFW on April 1st. I used to lift heavy in my early 20s, hoping that it'll somehow come back to me
Thanks in advance for any tips/advice/etc...
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Calculate your TDEE- take 15% off that and eat the remainder
BMR is for coma patients NOT mobile people. If you get up to go pee then you've broken through BMR and are now into TDEE territory. I would keep increasing- you can go 100 cals at a time or all in one big chunk- it's up to you. Or you can do some super healing and eat your TDEE for a month and heal fully- then reduce by a smidge till you start losing weight again.
Eating your TDEE is what maintenance is.0 -
Ok... I'll definitely give this a shot It feels weird to use a program like MFP and just disregard when it says, "You'll lose 0.0 lbs/week."
My brain keeps telling me, "THE COMPUTER SAYS ONLY EAT 1300!!" but I know I'm not doing something right....0 -
I hear you- try to remember MFP is just a program and programs don't always take into account reality. Know those stories of people following their GPS units into a lake simply because it told them to 'turn right'? Same thing 0
