Weightloss 4 Dummies?? BMR? BMI? Chocolate pie??? (so lost.)

natalienicole502

I've never had to worry about losing weight until now that I have gained through four pregnancies in 5 years... How do all these calculators work? I have never even heard of BMR? I am doing the Herbalife shakes and working out and eating a lot healthier and guzzling water but now I am afraid of this 'starvation' mode???

Can anyone enlighten me? School me as to what I should be following... do I need to be at 1,200 calories AFTER exercise and counting in my est. BMR?? Or I won't lose the weight?

thanks in advance for any help.

CallMeCupcakeDammit

Go here... http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/23912-links-in-mfp-you-want-to-read-again-and-again

Also, there's a BMR calculator in the tools section so you can find out what that is. :flowerforyou:

sweetheart03622

Don't stress. Do some reading when you have a moment on the message boards. Otherwise, do what you're doing until it stops working. Ge educated and then start making strides. At this point, just making a conscious decision to eat healthier will make a HUGE impact.

jenj1313

If you're only eating 1200 calories, you need to eat back your exercise calories, IMO.

Two good websites outside of MFP: fit2fatradio.com and http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

Good luck figuring it out! I think many of us end up trying a few different things before we figure out what works for us.

Jen

LiddyBit

Don't worry about "starvation mode."