Frustrated with BMR/RMR. please help me! (long)

Hello everyone! I'm at almost 6 months on myfitnesspal and over all I've been doing well. Keeping a good attitude, having realistic expectations and goals, being patient, making progress slowly but surely. I don't mind too much if i have a bad weekly weigh-in or even 2 or 3. Ok at 3 weeks in a row, it starts to get to me!

My BMR is about 1750, and my RMR is about 1650. I go by RMR because from what I've read, it's more accurate and BMR tends to over-estimate.

Ok so over the past about 5 weeks, I have averaged 1848 calories eaten. That is because I had a few days of vacation and was eating out 3 times per day and those days pulled the average up for those 5 weeks. I usually eat about 1700.

I exercise 6-7 days per week for 30-60 minutes. even on vacation i was walking 3-6 hours per day (museums, zoo)

Based on RMR, I should maintain my weight at 2550 calories eaten per day at the exercising 3-5 days per week level. So even at 1850 calories, I should have lost AT LEAST one lb per week. Actually just about 1.5 lbs per week. so between 5 lbs and 7.5 lbs. I have lost 2.4 lbs in 5 weeks. :sad:

I know RMR is just an estimate. And I know that it automatically assumes that if you say you exercise moderately (3-5 days of exercise per week), that you have more muscle and ups your calories needed to maintain your weight.

But GGEEEEZ. should it really be off that much, should i really lose half a lb per week when RMR says I should lose 1.5 lbs per week at 1850??? I've especially been frustrated these last couple of weeks, when I've been eating about at my RMR most days and still barely losing. RMR would say I'd lose about 2 lbs per week at that amt of calories. In May and June I averaged 1675 to 1775 calories per day and I lost 15 lbs over those 2 months which I was very happy with!

Thanks all for letting me vent, and i will consider any advice!!!!! I think this is just one of those weeks when I'm struggling with being patient and getting frustrated with the scale staying around 205 for the past few weeks. I probably just need to keep being patient!

I know some people will say try eating more but i feel like this is just proof that i should be eating less???? I basically eat when I'm hungry now. That feels good to me. I feel like, how can I go wrong if i am eating when i'm hungry and not eating mindlessly.




some more info: I try to be accurate with entering my calories eaten. I just go with MFP's estimates for exercise calories, and i actually pay less attention to my net calories and more attention to the number of calories i have eaten and making sure i get a good workout in. I have been going hard on my exercise bike for about 20 minutes per day. and i've been doing 30 day shred or 30-40 minutes of no more trouble zones almost everyday as well. I just feel like I deserve a good weigh-in. I keep saying "next week" "next week" "next week i will finally have a good weigh in"