If I'm not supposed to eat below my BMR...

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  • gomisskellygo
    gomisskellygo Posts: 635 Member
    It's BASIC MATH people.

    I really wish this was true. In my 20's it was. Now not so much!! However, I will find my magic number:)

    Your BMR is your BMR. Yes, it slows down as you age. But AGE IS NOT AN EXCUSE. It requires a 500 cal cut to lose 1 lb a week, whether you are 20 or 80 years old.

    Thank you for your responses, I appreciate them! I lost 2lbs in 8 weeks though. I went back and edited my original post. Bummer. I have bloodwork scheduled for tomorrow (again). I have lost weight in the past pretty easily.. I have the knowledge, ambition, and motivation. It's not working, Who knows. No excuses here, just saying I have never had a hard time before.
  • gomisskellygo
    gomisskellygo Posts: 635 Member
    It's BASIC MATH people.

    I really wish this was true. In my 20's it was. Now not so much!! However, I will find my magic number:)
    I whole heartedly agree. As someone in my late forties, in menopause, it IS HARDER.

    Thanks!
  • jsapninz
    jsapninz Posts: 909 Member
    It's BASIC MATH people.

    I really wish this was true. In my 20's it was. Now not so much!! However, I will find my magic number:)
    I whole heartedly agree. As someone in my late forties, in menopause, it IS HARDER.

    That is not true: a pound is 3500 calories. You have to burn 3,500 calories more than you eat to lose a pound. It doesn't matter who you are, how old you are, what color your skin is, your weight, your location, your sex, your ANYTHING. Losing a pound is the same amount of calories for EVERYONE.

    However if you want to make excuses to yourself to say that "THINGS ARE HARDER FOR ME," go for it. But don't pass it off as fact.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    It's BASIC MATH people.

    I really wish this was true. In my 20's it was. Now not so much!! However, I will find my magic number:)
    I whole heartedly agree. As someone in my late forties, in menopause, it IS HARDER.

    That is not true: a pound is 3500 calories. You have to burn 3,500 calories more than you eat to lose a pound. It doesn't matter who you are, how old you are, what color your skin is, your weight, your location, your sex, your ANYTHING. Losing a pound is the same amount of calories for EVERYONE.

    However if you want to make excuses to yourself to say that "THINGS ARE HARDER FOR ME," go for it. But don't pass it off as fact.
    You're in menopause as well?

    ps: no excuses here. I'm hard at work, and not over weight.
  • gomisskellygo
    gomisskellygo Posts: 635 Member
    This is a perfect example of karma!!! I remember rolling my eyes at my moms friends complaining about how much "easier" it was to lose weight at my ages (teens/20's). Lazy *kitten* old ladies, I thought. LOL. Jokes on me!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    jsapninz- I hope you are well in to your 30's as I wouldn't wish this on anybody.:drinker:

    No excuses here. I will do whatever work that it takes. Just looking for some support/experiences of other MFP'ers.:drinker:
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    This is a perfect example of karma!!! I remember rolling my eyes at my moms friends complaining about how much "easier" it was to lose weight at my ages (teens/20's). Lazy *kitten* old ladies, I thought. LOL. Jokes on me!:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    jsapninz- I hope you are well in to your 30's as I wouldn't wish this on anybody.:drinker:

    No excuses here. I will do whatever work that it takes. Just looking for some support/experiences of other MFP'ers.:drinker:
    You've GOT my support. I know that it got harder to maintain every few years. I KNOW that it's harder to lose a few pounds now than it was. Keep up the good work!
  • pitbullmama
    pitbullmama Posts: 454 Member
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  • gomisskellygo
    gomisskellygo Posts: 635 Member
    [/quote]You've GOT my support. I know that it got harder to maintain every few years. I KNOW that it's harder to lose a few pounds now than it was. Keep up the good work!
    [/quote]

    Thank you!!
  • jsapninz
    jsapninz Posts: 909 Member
    Sorry to pee on your pity party. Carry on.

    I look forward to living in a world that does not conform to basic science and math.
  • DakotaKeogh
    DakotaKeogh Posts: 693 Member
    You know what? Diet. Just freaking diet. We're all different. We all have opinions based on our own experience and success or lack of it. Just diet. Try things. Try other things. Experiment. Find what works for you and then go with it. Everything else from everyone else is just noise.
  • gomisskellygo
    gomisskellygo Posts: 635 Member
    Sorry to pee on your pity party. Carry on.

    I look forward to living in a world that does not conform to basic science and math.


    You are forgiven.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Sorry to pee on your pity party. Carry on.

    I look forward to living in a world that does not conform to basic science and math.
    Remember this conversation when you're 50. :smile:

    And again: no pity here. Sorry you're confused.

    cheers!
  • Spanaval
    Spanaval Posts: 1,200 Member
    Sorry to pee on your pity party. Carry on.

    I look forward to living in a world that does not conform to basic science and math.

    Not sure why you're getting pissy. It's a fact of life that your metabolism slows down as you age, and it gets easier to gain weight, and harder to lose it. Not that it cannot be done, just that it's harder.

    Also, pretty sure you wouldn't want to live in a world that does not conform to basic tenets of science. Yaknow, stuff like gravity.
  • mariajae
    mariajae Posts: 18
    I don't know the answer, but I do know that there are more numbers involved in how our body really works than weight. Pulse rate, metabolism, hormone levels, etc. I think experimentation is the only way to find out what works for you.
  • mtcHavingItAll
    mtcHavingItAll Posts: 69 Member
    This was helpful to me: http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

    Me, too. Thanks!
  • laurelj72
    laurelj72 Posts: 2
    I'm eating 1100-1200 calories a day by eating 3 meals and 2 snacks.. healthy food. No fried, no massive sugars, etc. My BMR according to that Scooby site is 1872! How in the world am I supposed to eat that level of calories and still eat healthy? I'm not hungry. I don't have a headache. I hydrate often. I exercise.
  • runningfromzombies
    runningfromzombies Posts: 386 Member
    It's BASIC MATH people.

    I really wish this was true. In my 20's it was. Now not so much!! However, I will find my magic number:)
    I whole heartedly agree. As someone in my late forties, in menopause, it IS HARDER.

    That is not true: a pound is 3500 calories. You have to burn 3,500 calories more than you eat to lose a pound. It doesn't matter who you are, how old you are, what color your skin is, your weight, your location, your sex, your ANYTHING. Losing a pound is the same amount of calories for EVERYONE.

    However if you want to make excuses to yourself to say that "THINGS ARE HARDER FOR ME," go for it. But don't pass it off as fact.

    Cool story bro, but it's not that simple. I spent four months training for a half-marathon and eating at a 500 calorie deficit from my TDEE every day the majority of the time, but I only lost about 5 pounds. It's true that if you rifle through my food diaries from December 5, 2011 to April 8th, 2012, you'll find some less-than-perfect days (and some, particularly closer to race day, where I purposely ate at maintenance or higher), but overall, considering the pure math and net calories, I ought to have lost about 12 pounds in that period of time. In those eighteen weeks, I would have had to have eaten 63,000 calories higher than my calorie goal to maintain--an additional 500 calories per day or 3,500 per week. But over that eighteen weeks, I only overate my calorie goal by 20,705 calories, leaving me 42,295 in the negative. Divide that by 3,500--a "pound"--and I ought to have lost 12 pounds. Only lost five. The math doesn't always add up. You're forgetting that things like water weight, muscle mass, and stress all factor into the number on the scale.
  • tabulator32
    tabulator32 Posts: 701 Member
    Think of BMR as one factor in an equation.

    BMR (calories burned) + exercise/activities (calories burned) = total calories burned, then...

    Total calories consumed - total calories burned = amount gained or lost (with 3500 calories equaling a pound).

    Negative amounts would be a net loss and positive amounts would be a net gain.

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