Who does the Zone or eats more protein....

Now I'm confused,( maybe I didn't eat enough razboo lol). I haven't been paying attention to BMR at all so when I saw your post I went and checked it and it said 1400 something calories. Which one am I supposed to be doing? The 1200 or the 1400. I too have been feeling tired lately and I just figured it was because I wasn't exercising enough because I usually feel pretty lively after I exercise. So when I was tired I'd get on the treadmill. Today though I just feel mentally tired to the point where I just want to sit in front of this computer and not do anything. ~karen

Well, I'm new at this, so if any one corrects me, I won't be offended.

BMR is what you would burn just lying in bed all day, not doing a thing. However, we burn more than that from daily activities (work, making supper, etc.). Thus, your Normal Daily Amount will be more than your BMR. You can see that on your Goals page. On the Food (or the Goals) page, it shows what your target calories are to lose weight at the rate you want for your lifestyle. That is the number you want to hit and it is based on your NDA, not your BMR.

In theory, you should still lose weight going for your BMR since your NDA uses more calories than that. Easy, huh?

For me, my BMR is 1896. This did not change when I adjusted my goals. My NDA changed a lot when I adjusted my lifestyle to be one up from what it was (I don't recall exactly what it is named). This affected the target calories on my Food page by pushing them up by about 200 calories per day.

I think that will be more realistic for me. I beleive I have undervalued the calories I am burning during and resulting from my work outs. I shall have to put some work into that to see if I can manufacture something that is fairly accurate.

I also beleive that, although I have a desk job, my desk is in my home upstairs, so I am burning a lot running up adn down for coffee, having a smoke, and whatever else I get away from the desk for. Plus, I'm generally pretty active after hours puttering around my workshop, etc.

In all, I have probably been in that "hoarding" state. I've been losing, but not what I would call aggressively. Plus, I just don't think a healthy plan should be leaving me that fatigued. I checked over my various food values and vitamins, so I know it was not that.

I believe I've been undernourished, as opposed to malnourished. Eating the right things, just not enough of it. I am also trying the 6-meal per day method in hopes it will equalize me even further.

thanks for the help, I think i get it better now, I have been eating three meals a day with 2 healthy snacks in between. All the proportions have gone down from what I was eating though. I get 45 minutes of cardio a day or two videos of strength training. one for arms one for legs. I'm losing weight just fine but I just find i'm tired lately. I drive a schoolbus so I'm not super on the go and mostly do housework inbetween so I guess all my settings and goals are right. I just don't like being tired.

I have two little ones and a seven year old. Feel free to add me and look at my diet. I think it depends on your height. I’m 5;2 and I often do 1200 to 1350 calories with exercise. I eat what foods I enjoy. I keep my meals very simple. My husband is a lot taller and men aren’t supposed to do 1200. This time I am trying keto with an added piece of fruit a day. So low carbs-50g or so (no rice bread or potatoes) and no added sugars. I like porridge so I might have that every so often. I have never done low fat dairy or mince and always lost weight. In the past I did Michelle bridges-she was great for portion control.

kjllose wrote: »

thanks for the help, I think i get it better now, I have been eating three meals a day with 2 healthy snacks in between. All the proportions have gone down from what I was eating though. I get 45 minutes of cardio a day or two videos of strength training. one for arms one for legs. I'm losing weight just fine but I just find i'm tired lately. I drive a schoolbus so I'm not super on the go and mostly do housework inbetween so I guess all my settings and goals are right. I just don't like being tired.

are you logging your exercise?

if you're doing cardio or resistance training, you should be eating back some of your exercise calories. working out for 45 minutes per day on 1200 calories doesn't seem sustainable or healthy.

penguinmama87 wrote: »

This might be the oldest zombie thread I have ever seen! (OP posted in 2007.)

Yeah, when I saw the title I had flashbacks to seeing it all over the bookstore I worked at, two decades ago. I was very confused for a moment.