HR Monitor Help

Yes. . .the "2200" can be correct! Remember that that would be to maintain your current weight if you ate all of those calories, so to lose you subtract a deficit from that amount. On non-exercise days, I'm eating around 1900 calories and still losing inches. . . as you lose weight, your daily calorie expenditure will become lower. (think of it this way. . .right now wherever you go you're carrying extra weight. . . imagine carrying a twenty pound weight at the gym all the time. . .)

The one caveat about calorie "burn" on the HRM is that you would also burn calories if you weren't exercising during that same time. In other words, if you sit on the sofa for an hour, you expend calories. If you exercise for an hour, you expend more calories. But. . .you didn't magically add an extra hour to your day, so you need to subtract those calories you would have burned sitting on the sofa. (BMR calories) I always deduct around 50 calories from my "exercise burn" per my HRM to account for this.

For me, exercise is anything above and beyond. . .on some days I work in a really low HR range, but I still count it as exercise if I wouldn't normally include it in my day. . .if I'd normally include it, I count it as activity.

High heart rate is not necessarily your goal in cardio, especially if you want your cardio to be primarily fat-burning. High intensity intervals are great for increasing your endurance, but long slow burn is supposedly better for weight loss.:flowerforyou:

I don't subtract all my BMR calories, in the hope that I get enough "afterburn" from my workout to balance out the rest. My BMR calories are around 70 per hour, so I just take away 50 per hour.

I also mix up my workouts, doing intervals some days for cardio and long slow for others. That's just what I've had success with.:flowerforyou: