Help please! Kind of confused!

a1rose
a1rose Posts: 127 Member
edited October 3 in Health and Weight Loss
I took a Metabolic Test today and my RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate is 1829. The gal said that to lose weight I can eat from 1465-1800 calories/day.
But I am a little confused:

So my Target Daily Calories is 1700. Now, is this "net" calories (calories consumed - calories burned)? Or, should I ONLY be eating a total of 1700?? No matter how much I exercise it off? For instance, today, I ate a total of 2308 calories, but I burned
approximately 632 calories with exercise and now I am at a NET calorie intake of 1676. Is this what I should be doing? Or am I doing it wrong?

Thanks for the clarification!

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  • armymil
    armymil Posts: 163 Member
    In order to lose a pound, you need to lose 3500 calories. *Edit: So your resting state minus any calories burned = weight loss. If you do 500 a day, then you will lose 1 pound by the end of the week.*

    My fitness pal may be setup differently than what you were told. You can easily change your goal calories in your settings. Put what you were told. In MFP, the limit it tells you on here is what you have to consume in order to lose 2 lbs (if that is how you have it setup).

    Now, I always take the lowest number of calories burned on an exercise on MFP vs the machine I worked on or any other device. Make sure to use the lowest number.

    Then, you should aim to eat at the limit you were told from the test.. With working out, you can eat those calories if you feel you need to. When you add your exercise to MFP, it will add it into your daily calorie allowance. Thus if you burn 600 calories, it will add to the 1700.
  • a1rose
    a1rose Posts: 127 Member
    So I got clarification from the lady at the wellness center I went to. She only wants me to eat a total of 1700. She doesn't want me to eat my calories lost from exercise back at all. Okay. Lol gonna be interesting
  • armymil
    armymil Posts: 163 Member
    So I got clarification from the lady at the wellness center I went to. She only wants me to eat a total of 1700. She doesn't want me to eat my calories lost from exercise back at all. Okay. Lol gonna be interesting

    I've heard some trainers suggest this and other people say you should eat them. So, just judge for yourself how you feel and drink lots of water!
  • Adrenaline_Queen
    Adrenaline_Queen Posts: 626 Member
    Mine is 1,200 a day, then I train, what I get from training, I half and eat those, so if I train and get 1,000 cals from training, I will eat 500 of those with my 1,200 daily cals xx

    I do this as I did not loose a 1lb when I ate all my cals xx
  • esmecgg
    esmecgg Posts: 38
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  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    So I got clarification from the lady at the wellness center I went to. She only wants me to eat a total of 1700. She doesn't want me to eat my calories lost from exercise back at all. Okay. Lol gonna be interesting

    You would probably still lose if you ate them back, but 1700 should be plenty to keep you full if you stick to mostly healthy nutrient rich foods.
  • BoDuke666
    BoDuke666 Posts: 6
    IMHO it depends on the type of exercise you are taking. If you hope to increase, say running performance, you will need to ensure that your body is properly fuelled or you may get very tired. I found that it worked best by eating half of my exercise calories to start with to find some balance.

    As my exercise has developed and got more intense I've started to eat them all over the course of a week. Say burning 600 per day over five days a week = 3000 then divide that over a week to give me (for example) an extra 400 kcals per day.

    That way I can stick to a fairly consistant eating pattern without having to increase one day and decrease the next.

    It's the pattern and developing healthy eating habits.
  • barbacasec
    barbacasec Posts: 106
    I am going to a dietician and I am set for 1200-1400 based on 2 lbs a week loss this is with basic exercise... (walking dogs etc..) on days I bike or really work out I am able to up it to 1600 if I am hungry- but no higher than that. I have been steadily losing 2lbsa week.. so I am happy - but you have to see what works best for you.

    my RMR was only 1770 - so your calorie count seems to be about right because your resting rate is a little higher than mine.
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