Interesting Graph of Progress

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Taylor521
Taylor521 Posts: 48 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
croppedgraph.png

Total deficit over 25 days was 16811 calories, assuming my BMR is 2161. That BMR came from this website http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/. I think its the same as MFP. Strange thing is I've lost 10 pounds, but if I divide my total deficit by 3500 it seems I should have only lost 4.8 pounds. Why would the deficit only equal half of what I actually lost? I logged most if not all of my exercise, including walking between classes. Eh, still interesting.


Weight 04/20/11 226.4
Weight 04/19/11 226.8
Weight 04/18/11 227
Weight 04/17/11 227.8
Weight 04/15/11 227
Weight 04/14/11 228.4
Weight 04/13/11 229.4
Weight 04/11/11 230.4
Weight 04/01/11 231.6
Weight 03/27/11 236

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  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
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    huh couldnt fix it
  • diegelman
    diegelman Posts: 55 Member
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    Maybe because that doesn't account for water weight?
  • rharris86dc
    rharris86dc Posts: 635 Member
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    I have no idea why it wont work.
  • Taylor521
    Taylor521 Posts: 48 Member
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    Maybe because that doesn't account for water weight?

    I doubt it, I drink a lot of water, and eat a lot of sodium.
  • givprayz
    givprayz Posts: 328
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    Because BMR doesn't account for doing anything. Everything you do uses calories, so you just burned more than you thought you did. Or it was water, or some other "hormonal" factor ,that caused losses.
  • julwills
    julwills Posts: 286 Member
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    croppedgraph.png
  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
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    Maybe you were constipated during your previous weigh in; maybe you didn't eat quite as much sodium as usual just before this weigh in...

    But also, BMR off the internet is a guesstimate. If you want to be this scientific about it all, you need to have your BMR measured, not calculated. Some high end gyms offer this service.
  • timlover38
    timlover38 Posts: 22 Member
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    croppedgraph.png

    you had periods in the image tag
  • plagirl227
    plagirl227 Posts: 134
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    The body doesn't always follow equations...
  • Taylor521
    Taylor521 Posts: 48 Member
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    Thanks Tim, i took the periods out but it just made the whole thing disappear.
  • timlover38
    timlover38 Posts: 22 Member
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    You still need to enclose the image URL in img brackets

    You need a starting image tag {img}

    and a closing image tag that has a backslash {/img}

    {img}http://www.blah.com/image.png {/img}

    replace those with the [ ] brackets. I just used the squiggly ones so it wouldn't read it as code
  • ATT949
    ATT949 Posts: 1,245 Member
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    You're dealing with a straight caloric deficit and, as you've seen, that's only part of the "eat less, exercise more".

    The "exercise" part burns more calories but the "best" part is that increased exercise both boosts your metabolic rate and builds muscle, which, in turn, boosts your metabolic rate.

    The combination of those three factors can lead to some dramatic weight loss.

    I keep my stats here:

    http://cbeinfo.net/weight.htm

    If you look through the gory details (column 3) you'll see that when I'm in a loss phase, it's no unusual to lose 2+ pounds overnight.


    All in all, there's something to this "Eat less, exercise more" thing, eh? :smile:
  • Taylor521
    Taylor521 Posts: 48 Member
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    You're dealing with a straight caloric deficit and, as you've seen, that's only part of the "eat less, exercise more".

    The "exercise" part burns more calories but the "best" part is that increased exercise both boosts your metabolic rate and builds muscle, which, in turn, boosts your metabolic rate.

    The combination of those three factors can lead to some dramatic weight loss.

    I keep my stats here:

    http://cbeinfo.net/weight.htm

    If you look through the gory details (column 3) you'll see that when I'm in a loss phase, it's no unusual to lose 2+ pounds overnight.


    All in all, there's something to this "Eat less, exercise more" thing, eh? :smile:

    Atleast it's safe to say the eat less exercise more routine can go a long way when you have alot of fat to burn. I can only speculate when my BMI gets low enough to the point where it starts to backfire.
  • timlover38
    timlover38 Posts: 22 Member
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    crap. ok I see whats wrong

    http://img535.imageshack.us/i/croppedgraph.png/

    Thats actually a dynamically generated page. If you right click on the graph you will get the actual URL for the image file...which is what I used

    http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/6387/croppedgraph.png
  • Taylor521
    Taylor521 Posts: 48 Member
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    Yup, I just saw that. Thanks!

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