Is getting your RMR clinically tested worth it?

Closerthanthis wrote: »

Oh, and my appointment was at 9am, so she said don't eat food or exercise or have caffeine or tobacco or anything like that after 10pm the night before...

Also, to add. After having it done, i would say that it was worth 60 to me personally, but it would not have been worth 150... It was really just the satisfaction of knowing a teeensy something about the way my body operates gives me enough peace of mind to have patience, keep at the MFP logging and not give up when I gained 2 lbs this week instead of losing, without doing anything different... That's where I think it will help me. I feel more relaxed even though the scale was high this week. Worth 60 to me personally, but probably not everyone.

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catsdogsh wrote: »

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CoffeeNCardio wrote: »

@catsdogsh @thatgumyoulike Do forgive me, that was poorly phrased, however:

Diabetes is not as common as the media would like us all to think. 9.3% of the US population is afflicted, and this number includes a statistical assumption of those who likely have it but are not formally diagnosed. It accounts for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

PCOS is not common. 5% of the total population has it, which is between 9 and 11% of the population that is capable of having it: I.E. Women only.

Hypothyroidism is a little more common at 12% of the population. And in all due fairness, that 12% is not limited to HypOthyroidism, it also includes any of the sub-types of thyroid disorders, including Hypothyroidism, Hyperthyroidism (graves disease, whose primary symptom is rapid weight LOSS), and thyroid cancer (which can cause both hypO and hypER at various stages and with various types).

That's not to mention at all the fact that these disorders all have symptoms which OP can (and I'm sure has) simply google or ask her doctor about if she is worried. But the odds are in her favor considering these disorders affect, generously, 33 million people (individually) out of a total population of 318 million. I'm sorry that you have all three, but the likelihood in OP's case, both mathematically likely and repeatedly observed on this site, is that she has a problem with measuring her food for logging or simply hasn't given enough time to her adjustments to have an obvious affect.

And most importantly: RMR is STILL not the key factor in adjusting CICO for metabolic disorders. Knowing it isn't going to give OP any information necessary to help her alter her plan. She needs to log consistently, at the same intake for a long period of time and weigh herself to check her results, then adjust off that standard. Part of this game is realizing that calorie counting is based on estimation, which inevitably leads to some trial and error at the individual level.

I didn't want OP, or anyone who reads this post, to jump immediately to the conclusion that a metabolic disorder, which is statistically unlikely, is to blame before checking all the MANY other simple, easy-to-fix things that go wrong with CICO estimating first. And I didn't want anyone to send OP into a health panic either: That's WebMD's job.

Any way you slice it, if she's logging accurately, and not losing, she has a medical problem. After logging accurately for a month if someone isn't losing, they need a specialist. I do understand checking how you log. However I lost several weeks trying to figure why my logging wasn't helping and knowing it wasn't accurate.

Oops lol knowing it was accurate. Logging correctly is not difficult

It actually does seem to be difficult for many people, especially at first.