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ummm... help...!

aeich8899
aeich8899 Posts: 55 Member
edited January 5 in Social Groups
According to bmf I burn 1.7 Cals per minute at one met. So that puts my bmr at 2448. Which means I should be eating about 3000 Cals that is six five hundred cal meals a day...that is a lot. I have a hard time getting in 2500 Cals a day.

When I am sleeping say like what is used for rmr its .8 mets putting me at 1.3 cal a minute this makes my rmr 1872.

I am five foot four in he's and 249, these numbers compared to other rmr and bmrs are so much higher. HELP!

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  • Becky388
    Becky388 Posts: 157 Member
    How long have you had it? If not long, give it a week or so to adjust to your body.
    What I did was took an average lazy type day without a workout and used as my TDEE. I used the custom settings here and used whichever activity level got me the closest. Turned out I had to go to very active to reach that number (right around 2,000) so used that number and add in my exercise manually. IF the bmf and mfp have already synced and did the adjustment, I delete it, then add my exercise calories manually (I like them seperate) then resync to get the adjusment that is left. So far that has worked. I try to eat whatever MFP tells me to according to the day and activity level, it still gives me a deficit of about 500 calories because I have it set for 1 pound loss/wk.
  • katevarner
    katevarner Posts: 884 Member
    I don't think your numbers are correct. Do you mean that you burn 2448 on a normal day? Or is that if you don't move at all? BMR and RMR should be closer to the same number. You need to figure your TDEE--the number of calories you expend on a normal day (24 hours) and then take a deficit from that. You don't have to add a certain number of calories to BMR, just subtract from TDEE and stay above BMR.

    Or to be simpler, wear the armband for a week or two, then get the average calories you burn in a day and subtract 500 for a pound a week or 1000 for a two pounds and eat that. Even simpler, just watch the calories you are burning each day and try to eat 500 or more under for that day--that's really what I did, even tho I had a specific goal.
  • Becky388
    Becky388 Posts: 157 Member
    If you want your exercise calories seperate, just use the workout part of the BMF app, then manuually add them to MFP. When BMF and MFP sync it will automatically readjust. I tried it this morning without deleting anything, the adjustment was 301 then after I added my workout of 363, and syncd again, it readjusted the BMF adjustment to 2??. it does not give you credit double credit - BMF keeps you honest ;)
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