Bodymediafit Day 1

jaz050465

Up to now I've been using a fitbit and a HRM for running. I am within my healthy weight range but cannot shift the excess fat.

I have just bought a BMF and yesterday was my first full day. My burn was 2500 which was much higher than my previous recorded burn of about 1900. Have others found this and has eating the extra calories led to weight loss. I'm aiming for a 500 cal deficit but I had 1100.

KarenJanine

Supposing yeterday was an average day and that your burns will usually be in that region, I would definitely recommend increasing your cals. Try taking a 20% cut from your TDEE (i.e. 2000) and eat that everyday which still gives you a 500 cal daily deficit and should therefore give you a 1lb per week loss.

You would not need to eat back any exercise cals as they're already accounted for in your TDEE.

jaz050465

Up to now I've been using a fitbit and a HRM for running. I am within my healthy weight range but cannot shift the excess fat.

I have just bought a BMF and yesterday was my first full day. My burn was 2500 which was much higher than my previous recorded burn of about 1900. Have others found this and has eating the extra calories led to weight loss. I'm aiming for a 500 cal deficit but I had 1100.

It does help, but i recommend something better. Eat at TDEE one day, the next day eat TDEE *.60. This is a calorie cycling method.

Using bodymedia fit, find out how many calories you burn per week then divide by 7 to get a daily average.

Did you mean divided by 60. That's interesting. There is an old weightwatchers unofficial plan which involved high and low eating days. A similar principle I suppose.

jaz050465

Anyone found that their BMF TDEE was higher than they expected?

shanmackie

i would follow MFP's recommendations for the first week or so until the BM device can get used to your actual burn. it takes a bit but it will start to even out. i'm not ACTIVELY trying to lose and haven't lost any yet and i've maybe had my BM link for 2-3 weeks. i eat less than it says some days and more than other, so it makes sense that i've not lost.

UpEarly

Anyone found that their BMF TDEE was higher than they expected?

My BMF TDEE is much higher than what I was seeing when I combined MFP's numbers with number from a Polar HRM. For me, the BodyMedia numbers have been more accurate.

Before I started using the BodyMedia, I was trying to maintain my weight, but I kept losing about a half pound a week. I was basing my TDEE on the heart rate monitor and MFP's suggested base calories for my general activity level. MFP usually had me set to around 2000 calories (after exercise). My BodyMedia burns are usually in the 2400-2700 range.

ebaymommy

Up to now I've been using a fitbit and a HRM for running. I am within my healthy weight range but cannot shift the excess fat.

I have just bought a BMF and yesterday was my first full day. My burn was 2500 which was much higher than my previous recorded burn of about 1900. Have others found this and has eating the extra calories led to weight loss. I'm aiming for a 500 cal deficit but I had 1100.

Yes, I was completely surprised by how high my burns were when I first starting wearing my BMF. I find it to be quite accurate in most situations. The exceptions are if you are doing something where you are not swinging your arms normally (i.e. mowing the lawn using a push mower so you are walking but your arms are stationary or riding a bicycle). In those instances I wear the BMF on my left calf and it records a much more accurate burn.

I was very similar to you....already in a healthy weight range when I got my BMF but wanting to shed some fat. I found that eating VERY close to my TDEE worked best for me. I tried to eat at about a 10% (and never more than 15%) deficit, so for me most days that meant coming within 200 calories of my BMF burn. Any time I let my deficits get to big (for me anything over 500 calorie deficit was too big) my weight loss would stall.

jaz050465

Up to now I've been using a fitbit and a HRM for running. I am within my healthy weight range but cannot shift the excess fat.

I have just bought a BMF and yesterday was my first full day. My burn was 2500 which was much higher than my previous recorded burn of about 1900. Have others found this and has eating the extra calories led to weight loss. I'm aiming for a 500 cal deficit but I had 1100.

It does help, but i recommend something better. Eat at TDEE one day, the next day eat TDEE *.60. This is a calorie cycling method.

Using bodymedia fit, find out how many calories you burn per week then divide by 7 to get a daily average.

Did you mean divided by 60. That's interesting. There is an old weightwatchers unofficial plan which involved high and low eating days. A similar principle I suppose.

no I meant * .60. A person should have a daily deficit of abotu 20%. This is how many calories someone should eat a day.
If your TDEE is 2,00 for example

2,000 * .80(this takes away 20%) = 1,600 to eat. This is how much someone should eat to lose weight usually. A constant calorie deficit can lead to stall outs, or cause people to over eat because they feel a bit deprived, so i just shift the calories.

The formula i use is
Day 1: TDEE(what you eat)
Day 2: TDEE * .60 (what you eat
repeat

2000 * .60(takes away 40%) = 1,200 with this example it would be

Day 1: 2,000
Day 2: 1,200
repeat

If you do the math this averages to 20% a day with less of a risk of stall outs or binging, you get a diet break every other day.

Ah ok. That makes sense. Struggled today to eat all my caliries and that was without exercising. I'm so used to not eating normally eg water with porridge not milk and NEVER have spread on toast that I eat so healthily that I just felt stuffed eating more.

jaz050465

i would follow MFP's recommendations for the first week or so until the BM device can get used to your actual burn. it takes a bit but it will start to even out. i'm not ACTIVELY trying to lose and haven't lost any yet and i've maybe had my BM link for 2-3 weeks. i eat less than it says some days and more than other, so it makes sense that i've not lost.

But doesn't it accurately measure your daily burn from day 1? I'm confused.