I Had My BMR Tested - It's 1032 Calories

I find that any coal tar shampoo does a very good job of getting the glue out of your hair after a sleep study.

THANK YOU! Where do I get it?

Neutrogena T Gel or any generic equivalent. About $5 a bottle for the generic stuff, but I buy it all the time because it's a dandruff shampoo and I have dandruff. Walmrt CVS Walgreen grocery store - any place that has shampoo will have it.

On a side note, I though narcopesly was something that once you have it, you've got it, it never goes away. So why does your insurance keep making you retest? I find that bizarre, and expensive. I have sleep apnea and those sleep studies are a couple thousand a night. I imainge a 24 hour sleep study has got to cost at least 3 grand.

Very interesting post. The online calculators are estimates and it really does come down to a certain amount of trial and error to find your maintenance vs. weight loss vs. weight gain calories.

Thanks for sharing!

Hmm it actually makes perfect sense. of course your BMR is going to be 1032. BMR represents your body's energy consumption if you were just to lie down and do nothing (or in this case, the above BMR you got from the test represents what what you were doing during that test) basically the energy your body with its organs etc needs to live. TDEE is the energy your body needs when you do regular activities everyday (and that differs from person to person) . To lose weight, from my understanding is to cut the intake from your TDEE NOT your BMR. Say, if your TDEE is an average of 2100, then losing weight would mean about 1800 or so depending on how much you want to lose in a specified period. I hope this clears up the confusion.

But why should we assume the online TDEE calculators are any more accurate than the online BMR calculators. Don't TDEE calculators use BMR as a starting point? If the starting point is incorrect, then it seems logical that the end point would also.

That's interesting and explains why I seem to maintain at net 1500-1600 calories but loose steadily when I try to net 1200.
Everyone says that is too low and to eat more, but I'm 5'2, 121lbs. When I excercise I try to burn 300 calories and only eat half of that back.
BMR caluclators say I should be netting 1480...
Thank you for posting. I will keep doing what is working for me- 1200 net!

Definitely interesting but I guess I wonder what that really tells us? (I'm not being snarky). What I mean is how many calories does your body need to actually do something. Obviously this give you a number you shouldn't go under but you shouldn't go under a number even higher than this unless you do just lay in bed all day. Am I correct here? I'm assuming you go to the grocery store, take a shower, get dressed etc etc etc. all of those take a few calories and it adds up. We still can't say 100% what your tdee is. The only real way to guess that would be to track your food very deliberately for a time span and see what your body does. And you would still have variables like sodium intake, exercise etc.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

Hmm it actually makes perfect sense. of course your BMR is going to be 1032. BMR represents your body's energy consumption if you were just to lie down and do nothing (or in this case, the above BMR you got from the test represents what what you were doing during that test) basically the energy your body with its organs etc needs to live. TDEE is the energy your body needs when you do regular activities everyday (and that differs from person to person) . To lose weight, from my understanding is to cut the intake from your TDEE NOT your BMR. Say, if your TDEE is an average of 2100, then losing weight would mean about 1800 or so depending on how much you want to lose in a specified period. I hope this clears up the confusion.

But why should we assume the online TDEE calculators are any more accurate than the online BMR calculators. Don't TDEE calculators use BMR as a starting point? If the starting point is incorrect, then it seems logical that the end point would also.

True, but these calculators are probably based on AVERAGES from the general population. There is variance in the population, which this thread points out. You could be average, or below average, or above average. Most people don't get this tested so it makes sense to start with an average and tweak from there.

Thank you for posting this!

...i had a feeling that many of us have been overestimating due to the various online calcs

Hmm it actually makes perfect sense. of course your BMR is going to be 1032. BMR represents your body's energy consumption if you were just to lie down and do nothing (or in this case, the above BMR you got from the test represents what what you were doing during that test) basically the energy your body with its organs etc needs to live. TDEE is the energy your body needs when you do regular activities everyday (and that differs from person to person) . To lose weight, from my understanding is to cut the intake from your TDEE NOT your BMR. Say, if your TDEE is an average of 2100, then losing weight would mean about 1800 or so depending on how much you want to lose in a specified period. I hope this clears up the confusion.

THIS!! BMR and TDEE is not the same......

Hmm it actually makes perfect sense. of course your BMR is going to be 1032. BMR represents your body's energy consumption if you were just to lie down and do nothing (or in this case, the above BMR you got from the test represents what what you were doing during that test) basically the energy your body with its organs etc needs to live. TDEE is the energy your body needs when you do regular activities everyday (and that differs from person to person) . To lose weight, from my understanding is to cut the intake from your TDEE NOT your BMR. Say, if your TDEE is an average of 2100, then losing weight would mean about 1800 or so depending on how much you want to lose in a specified period. I hope this clears up the confusion.

THIS!! BMR and TDEE is not the same......

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i used the harris benedict equation to see what it says yours would be - its 2058 which is 1025 more then what yours is. but this is stated on one of the BMR websites.

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The Harris-Benedict equation has been the standard for decades and is still the most widely used for estimating BMR. This is why we offer it to our users. However, numerous studies have shown it to be inaccurate for a number of reasons:

•According to today's test standards the Harris-Benedict equation does not estimate BMR, but rather RMR. This is because the test subjects did not spend the night at the test facility.
•The test subjects used to develop the Harris-Benedict equation did not include an adequate representation of obese people, nor of younger and older people. These omissions continue to become more significant as populations become older and heavier.
•While all equations for predicting energy expenditure only make estimates, the Harris-Benedict equation typically overestimates by 5% or more.
•Since the Harris-Benedict equation was first published in 1919, a number of studies have attempted to improve it. Of these, none has been shown to produce more accurate results than the Mifflin equation we use for calculating RMR.
•For further details please refer to Validation of several established equations for resting metabolic rate in obese and nonobese people, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, September 2003, David C. Frankenfield, et al.