What am I doing wrong?? I could use some input....

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  • jfinnivan
    jfinnivan Posts: 360 Member
    I don't trust the calories burned numbers from the machines, and even, to some extent, the heart rate monitor. I found out that by eating half my exercise calories, as shown by the HRM, and subtracting my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure, about 80 cals per hour for me) calories, I lost between .5 and 1 pound per week.
  • Crashwebb
    Crashwebb Posts: 4
    what is (fat shredder)?
  • whatshesaid
    whatshesaid Posts: 53 Member
    Thanks again everyone... I will try to stop eating all of my exercise calories and get a HRM to see where I really stand as far as that goes. Also, I'm not really a champion of drinking Slimfast.... I had some cans to get rid of and I've been using half of one each morning to make my breakfast smoothie which gives it some flavor - with unsweetened almond milk, frozen banana, tablespoon light pb or almond butter, 1 cup of spinach and some flax seed. So calm down, it's good stuff and fills me up for hours!!
  • jerryellis
    jerryellis Posts: 15
    2. Do not eat your exercise calories. Your calories consumed from food should be less than your calories burned from normal daily activity. This will start your daily calorie deficit. Not too much because you need food to fuel your exercise. I believe you stated that you are burning 600 calories per day from exercise, so if you consume the same amount that you burn from normal daily activity ( zero deficit), you would maintain your weight, but when you add the 600 calories burned from exercise, you would be at a 600 calorie per day deficit (if everything is perfectly accurate) to burn body fat, 500 calorie per day deficit = 3500 calories deficit per week (7x500=3500) that is 1 pound of body fat lost per week.

    MFP has already deducted the 500 calories from your calorie count so you need to eat some of your calories back because if you don't, and you are burning 600 calories without eating any back, you are giving yourself an 1100 calorie deficit and that is way too much a day. If you were to eat back, say, half of the exercise calories, 300, you would then be on track to lose about 1 1/2 lbs. a week. 1100 calorie deficit is more than a 2 lb loss per week and not really a good idea.
  • dls06
    dls06 Posts: 6,774 Member
    You may not be burning all the calories you think you are.
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