WTF???

I am done with soda! I am quitting today!!

Yay! I bet you'll soon see the scale dropping lbs just by this ^^ change!

Your BMR seems high for desk job, but what do I know you could be 6ft tall?! lol

If you aren't 6' tall then I would use a formula that takes your bf% into account because lean mass is more expensive calorie-wise to maintain I foung my BMR was a lot lower once I factored in my bf%. I think it's the katch-mcardie (or something like that) formula.

LOL....Nope I am 5'4" (64 inches) and I don't work.

You don't work? I can see how you may feel compelled to eat out of bordem, but you should use that time to get out of the house! Can you start a veggie garden in your free time - burn calories and get low-cost, healthy veggies in return?

I love junk, but you HAVE to cut it. Switch from creamer to whole milk, 2%, 1%, then skim. Switch to artificial sweeteners.

Cut out soda and switch to flavored seltzers.

Every time you're too lazy to log your food, ask yourself if getting in shape is something you really want. You need a change in your brain first!

You seem like a very nice lady, so I hate to question your honesty, but do you really tread water for 90-120 minutes? That's an awful lot of work. I don't think I could do it for more than a few minutes myself. If that's a typo or an overestimation, you are "earning" a lot more calories than you should probably be consuming.

You have a lot of weight to lose (according to your ticker), therefore you can severely restrict your calories for months and not harm your metabolism. You can safely go down to 800-1200 a day. Perhaps try a juice fast for 21 days and see how you feel. The first 3 days are the hardest, after you get past those 3 days it gets a lot easier and you'll start seeing the results you want.

Before going this route talk to a nutritionist to set a plan for you. You want to make sure you are getting all the nutrients you need, but I think you'll be happy with the results at the end of the 21 days.

I wouldn't go this drastically, especially since you seem to really love bad foods and soda's but the calculators get really skewed when you get into the range of morbid obesity so your BMR and TDEE will show higher than they really are. You don't need to eat to feed the fat.

As the previous poster stated though, being morbidly obese allows you to go much much lower on your calorie intake without doing your body any harm. You have plenty of fat stores for your body to draw from for energy. Even if you went down to 1800 calories a day total, forget adding exercise in at this point, you'd be fine but it needs to be nutritious food, not soda's, pastries and junk food. Changing from Mountain Dew to orange soda only eliminated some caffeine not the calories. If you must have soda then switch to a diet brand and start cutting back.

It's totally possible for you to lose a lot of weight very easily if you put the work in. Until you get your mind in a place where you are willing to pass up some of your favorite calorie bombs though it isn't going to work.

Keep in mind that weight loss is at least 80% diet and 20% exercise. No matter how much you exercise, if you come home and eat a half dozen donuts you've wiped out all that effort. Look at exercise as a way to get healthier and fit rather than a tool to allow more food.

I am done with soda! I am quitting today!! Along with all the other junk. My question to you is....I have this problem with not eating. For example, today....I haven't eaten a damn thing and I don't feel like eating either. Is that bad? I do this a lot, don't eat. And then when I do eat, I eat crap or one meal a day. Ugh, what is wrong with me??

First, please don't take the advice to severely reduce your calories from a total stranger. Only a doctor should give that kind of advice. A 20% reduction from your TDEE is perfectly healthy and you should be able to lose with that much of a deficit.

Second, yes it's bad that you're not eating. You don't have to force a whole meal down your throat if you're not hungry, just start trying to eat small things throughout the day like yogurt or fruit or a handful of nuts or a small serving of oatmeal or a smoothie. I used to kind of do the same thing. Figured since I wasn't hungry in the moring I might as well not eat then by the afternoon/early evening I'd be starved and eat everything I could get my hands on. For some people eating times don't matter but I think you're more like me where "grazing" or eating small frequent meals, might work better for you. And eventually your system will get used to it and you will start getting hungry earlier in the day so that it won't feel like a forced eating. Either way, it doesn't hurt to try it, right?!

Third, I hate to discourage you from your excitment but I'm not sure it's necessary to completely clean up your diet in one day. I know for me, that just makes things worse because I still want the foods I love and I might be good for a week or two then I cave and eat everything. How about being a bit more realistic and set a goal for every week. Go ahead and give up soda this week (I totally support that, drinking empty calories is a huge waste in my opinion) and then this weekend plan out your meals for the week and go grocery shopping so you can set your other goals like eating healthier, less junk, etc. Small gradual changes will be easier to stick to.

You seem like a very nice lady, so I hate to question your honesty, but do you really tread water for 90-120 minutes? That's an awful lot of work. I don't think I could do it for more than a few minutes myself. If that's a typo or an overestimation, you are "earning" a lot more calories than you should probably be consuming.

Your %BF makes a huge difference in how much work treading water is. The higher the %BF, the more bouyant you are.

That said, the standard test to be allowed to go swimming in the deep end at my old summer camp was to tread water for 60min. I can't remember any kids who failed, and there were plenty who were not fit and were not great swimmers. Maybe your technique is not very efficient - the goal is to move as little as possible - or you have very low %BF that makes it exceptionally difficult for you?

Honestly, I haven't tried to tread water for more than a few minutes since I was in swimming lessons close to 30 years ago. Now that I think about it, I could probably do it for an hour or so, but I can't imagine doing that unless I needed to. It seemed an odd choice of exercise for the OP. She is logging 800+ exercise calories a day and I suspect that is not quite accurate.

Did I misread her post or did she reply that she is "playing frisbee and carrying her son around"? This is NOT treading water. Also, unless you're wearing a HRM during exercise, I wouldn't feel comfortable logging exercise calories unless they were reduced by about 30% (I'm no expert of course).