Don't know what to think about this

I am eating about 2,000 calories a day. I did say that what I thought was my resting heart rate was actually just me sitting around for a few hours doing nothing. And yes I am losing between 1 and 2 pounds a day. I used to eat closer to double the amount of food that I am right now.

Well, unfortunately, 1-2 lbs loss per day is NOT healthy. You will end up with some serious health risks. I would agree that you should probably get a check up.

Heart Rate Monitors are only able to calculate calories expended when you are at a fitness level heart rate. They calculate the calories expended using a series of mathematic equations that just don't work when you are at a resting heart rate. You would have to purchase a BodyBugg or something similar to calculate daily calories expended.

At least that was my understanding of it!

^^^^^^^^^ what she said.... HRMs can only accurately calculate calories burned during exercise - when your heart rate is elevated.

Bottom line, YOU CAN'T WEAR AN HRM FOR REGULAR CALORIE NUMBERS. That's not what they are designed for, and they are wildly inaccurate in this capacity.

If you want your daily calorie burn, buy a bodybugg or a bodyfit media device. these devices are designed for full day calorie counts. HRM's are for exercise, that's it. Period, end of story.

Michael Phelps burns less than that on an Olympic race day.

I call fail.

Get a new one if you can't set the RHR and get a read somewhere in the 2000-3000 Cals per day rate. C'mon, you know better.....:laugh:

If you have a resting heart rate of over 100bpm then you need to go see a doctor FAST.

I was just going to say that, it should be around 80 or less, I run for 25 MIns @ 6MPH and mine only hits 154-157 at the most and I'm 234Lbs, like the others are saying the HRM watch is just a guess and only to be used during workouts only, even the BodyBug is a big guessing thing you strap to your arm all day, even the calories counted on MFP are a guessing game.

I really find myself wondering what anyone is doing in a regular job setting that would cause your heart rate to get to 185?
My HRM goes nuts when around electrical sources such as lamps, telephones, computers, etc. and goes crazy when I'm driving in the car with rates supposedly about 200+.
If you're wearing a HRM all day long, I"m sure that you're coming in proximity to those types of things and it could be giving you artificially high readings.

It sounds like you are doing everything right with the HRM and if you're losing 1-2 pounds per day then I'd say that it's pretty accurate (2,000 calories in - 9,000 calories out = 2 lbs fat loss). I won't go into the debate of this being a healthy amount of weight to lose, or even if it is sustainable, but as long as you have the energy, then more power to you. If it were me I would consume more calories daily (not 9,000 obviously), especially if I felt sluggish or even hungry. With a job like that, who needs to workout?!

by the way, he said his average heart rate was 132

which means his average heart rate was 68% max for the WHOLE day.

not only is that unsustainable, it's dangerous, exhaustion and fatigue would set in after 3 or 4 hours of that high of an average heart rate after a few hours.

68% is considered moderate cardio rates (low end of moderate, but still), a normal average resting heart rate should be between 30% and 50% (and even 50% is a little high. FYI that's between about 60 and 100 BPM for a Male). .

I doubt his average heart rate is that high, it's more likely the HRM was misreporting. If it IS then I would think a doctor's visit is in order, because that's a little frightening.

Every time I wear my HRM and sit at the laptop, my HRM says my heart rate is 185-200+. I'm not going to count typing as an aerobic exercise. LOL