A couple of seemingly stupid questions.
justfenix
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1) Trying to figure out calorie needs based on BMR and... I have no idea what my activity level is considered. I do an hour of weights with a trainer 3 times a week (work to muscle exhaustion), walk 2-5 miles 3-4 times a week and am trying to find the right swim schedule but right now it's about 3 times a week 4-5000 m. When I am not at the gym though, I do computer graphics so I am completely sedentary. So would I be lightly or moderately active?
2) How in the world do you figure out calories burned when doing weights? I do heavy(ish) legs but just moving towards more involved arm and shoulder since coming off a torn labrum.
I have lost 60lbs basically puttering around but the next 60 are going to require actual effort so I would like to arm myself with some more info. Thanks!
2) How in the world do you figure out calories burned when doing weights? I do heavy(ish) legs but just moving towards more involved arm and shoulder since coming off a torn labrum.
I have lost 60lbs basically puttering around but the next 60 are going to require actual effort so I would like to arm myself with some more info. Thanks!
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i would class you as very active.
Well done on the weight loss, you're doing something right. If its not broken, why change it?0 -
If you use MFP as it is intended (eating exercise calories back), you are sedentary. If you are trying to do calculate TDEE, so are not going to be logging exercise calories) then start with lightly active and see how it goes in a month. In the second scenario, you do not care about calories burned, exercise is included into TDEE, and you do not log them at all.0
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Please tell me you're really bad at logging and you are not eating around 800 calories a day with all that exercise? Or are you under a doctors care?0
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i would class you as very active.
Well done on the weight loss, you're doing something right. If its not broken, why change it?
Thanks. The problem is that when you are 5' tall and weight 265, dropping 60 basically just takes less chocolate and a bottle of Pepsi 1 or twice a week rather than 2liters every day. The second 60 actually effort and since I'm truly motivated but ADD as hell, I want to take as much advantage of this hyper focus phase as possible.0 -
1. You are not eating enough, esp. with all the exercise you do. Eat more!
2. you are definitely either moderately or very active.0 -
1. what ageikk said. Sedentary if using MFP as you get awarded extra calories for exercise when you log it. You would be double counting otherwise.
2. Many people choose not to enter weights under MFP because calorie burns are difficult to calculate, but they will be much less than cardio. I dont bother and take it as a bonus.
ps the focus is great, you are correct in the 2nd phase will be different and you keep learning all the way along.0 -
Op Are you actually eating 800 cals a day?0
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If you use MFP as it is intended (eating exercise calories back), you are sedentary. If you are trying to do calculate TDEE, so are not going to be logging exercise calories) then start with lightly active and see how it goes in a month. In the second scenario, you do not care about calories burned, exercise is included into TDEE, and you do not log them at all.
I guess I am trying to find a happy medium. I rarely even hit the 1200 calories that MFP recommends so when I add a 5000meter swim and 3 miles of walking to that, I'm never going to be able to eat that back. I could not afford to if I even wanted to. At the same time, when I do the weights I generally don't do the swim so I am home more where I will eat more. A rough estimate for those days at least lets me know where me ceiling is.0 -
You are not eating anywhere near enough op - you need to hit 1200 or you're going to lose a lot of muscle with the fat, even lifting weights. 800 cals a day are not enough.
I don't understand the comment that you can't afford to eat more even if you wanted to. Ditch the trainer if you can't afford food.
Seriously.
Eat more0 -
Iron_Feline wrote: »Op Are you actually eating 800 cals a day?
Unfortunately, yes, It's an issue I am trying to work on. If I am not home, I don't eat and especially this past week or two, I have not been home much. I have started carrying Kind and Cliff bars with me and I have them in my locker at the gym but I spent way too many years trying to eat only when I was actually hungry (as opposed to bored back then) so now that I'm always busy my mind is on everything other than being hungry and I don't eat and by the end of the day, I am either too tired to cook, or have deemed it to be too late to eat. Like right now for instance.0 -
Iron_Feline wrote: »Op Are you actually eating 800 cals a day?
Unfortunately, yes, It's an issue I am trying to work on. If I am not home, I don't eat and especially this past week or two, I have not been home much. I have started carrying Kind and Cliff bars with me and I have them in my locker at the gym but I spent way too many years trying to eat only when I was actually hungry (as opposed to bored back then) so now that I'm always busy my mind is on everything other than being hungry and I don't eat and by the end of the day, I am either too tired to cook, or have deemed it to be too late to eat. Like right now for instance.
You seriously need to eat more - set a timer on your phone to remind you to eat - add a bowl of ice cream in at the end of the day if you must - but please eat more. It's never to late to eat btw.0 -
You do need to eat more, if you want to be successful at this in the long run. The way you are going now, with all that exercise and lack of food, you will crash and burn eventually and give up. What your doing is just not sustainable. Like Feline said, eat a bowl of ice cream or something before bed.0
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Iron_Feline wrote: »I don't understand the comment that you can't afford to eat more even if you wanted to. Ditch the trainer if you can't afford food.
Seriously.
Eat more
Trainer is a friend so not a problem there. It's not that I can't afford food, It's that I can't afford 3000 calories worth of QUALITY food on multiple swim days a week. I truly am trying to add more food, It's a mindset change, I didn't get here overnight, I'm not going to break it over night. I have good days and bad ones. Today (yesterday I guess) was by far among the worst. To be fair, I even acknowledged it in the comments.
Also,to be honest as hell, wrapping my mind around the fact that I am over 200lbs and my problem is not that I do not exercise enough or that I overeat, or even that I do not eat "healthy" enough but largely that I just flat out do not eat enough as a whole is extremely hard to wrap my brain around. Again, old thought processes that need to give way to new ones. It's a process, one where the more information I have, the more I am able to work with it.0 -
It doesn't have to be QUALITY food. Just food. You don't need 3000 cals on a swim day - just try to hit 1200 to start then slowly add on until your getting around 1600 a day .
Seriously have a bowl of Raman noodles with an egg broken into it - 500cals for buttons. BOOM.
Why are you eating just fish on its own? Add some rice or noodles or pasta or veg or something - they're not expensive and they have calories.
Hell - have a bowl of ice cream.
Seriously - the lack of calories will do much much more harm in the long run that the quality of those calories.0 -
LOL - OK - it's 3am and I have the trainer in 9 hours so ... No ice cream in the house but Greek Yogurt and a Kind bar and OJ? and I am out. Tomorrow is a new day, new goal. At the very least, hit 1200. Thank you!!!
Sometimes complete strangers telling you you're an idiot (especially in at kind hearted manner) actually is a good thing.0 -
LOL - OK - it's 3am and I have the trainer in 9 hours so ... No ice cream in the house but Greek Yogurt and a Kind bar and OJ? and I am out. Tomorrow is a new day, new goal. At the very least, hit 1200. Thank you!!!
Sometimes complete strangers telling you you're an idiot (especially in at kind hearted manner) actually is a good thing.
Good luck - have a nice sleep and hit 1200 tomorrow.
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@justfenix you can always look into my diary if you want some inspiration I eat 1200 a day too. Might want to ask for translations sometimes, because a lot of it is in Dutch0
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my diary has 1800 a day. Full of fruit, lean meats, veggies etc. Have a look.0
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