Shoechick5 Member

Can you give us some info... your current weight, height, etc. Do you know what your BMR is? We really can't give any advice until we know more details. If you're a 5 ft and 120 pounds then yeah, 1,200 is probably great. 250lbs and 5'6 then absolutely not.

This doesn't make sense. You can't use your resting rate and then deduct 8,400 calories from it. You need to use your TDEE not BMR

At least. Possibly even higher than that. Losing weight is hard enough, don't starve yourself trying to do it. You need to find a lifestyle that works long term, allows you go eat like a human, go out and have a good time, not eat rabbit food everyday and be miserable. At 188 I was eating 1,500 and eating 90% of my…

Highly recommend them. I log my food in MFP and it syncs with my fitbit one which gives me my step calories. Easy Peasy. I don't log anything into Fitbit, just let it do it's thing feeding MFP.

I believe you are correct. We hike a trail on weekends which is just under 2 hours. My fitbit gives me about 350 - 400 calories back (which I eat). My HRM was between 550 - 650 so for me, it's definitely taking into account "Breathing, etc"

I log it every single time it goes down

I didn't say you wouldn't lose weight with a calorie deficit. I pointed out a good article that explains why sometimes you don't see those results on a scale right away.

au contraire... google "Why the Scale Lies" some very good info.

Are you taking the calorie burn from your HRM and entering it in a workout calories into MFP? Your HRM is also including what you would burn by sitting around doing nothing so you're double counting if you're doing that. Doing the same walk, same speed at the same weight, my Fitbit will give me about 350 calories back, my…

I let me fitbit calculate it all so yes, it would of course count grocery shopping steps. Would I intentionally enter it in the tracker, of course not, but what counts is my daily step count..I don't subract for "Milling"

Any movement is exercise :grumble:

I just went through 2 1/2 weeks of no weight drop. Very frustrating but I just kept doing what I'd been doing even though it was beyond frustrating and then this week I dropped 2 lbs. just keep going, it will drop.

This is what I do too. On the MFP App there's a weekly view. If I know I'm going out on the weekend I'll try and save a few to cover off when I know I'll be over.

There is no wagon. If you broke a cup would you chuck out the whole china set? get back at it and you'll be fine...it's just a broken cup ;)

Frick, I wish! seeing as my mom is 118 pounds :laugh:

If you're talking about a cream base, it looks like you're making a roux to thicken the soup. I would try cutting the butter in half before substituting. And if it is a Roux, reduce the amount of flour too.

My BMR is around 1,470 and I've been eating 1,500 + Exercise since Christmas. By using the normal 3500 = 1 pound equation I should be losing around .7lbs a week, I'm not. I've been anywhere from 1.2 - 2 lbs a week. My body seems to really like 1,500 and I am not struggling at all

"All the good doctors (like Dr. Oz) " Can't stop laughing :devil: :noway:

I'm not being snarky, but if that's all your eating, how did you ever gain weight in the first place? It doesn't seem possible.

Female, 181 pounds not that active and my TDEE is around 2000 - 2100 so it would be bang on for me.

Mine was acting up late last week after I charged it. I deleted it from my account and reinstalled it. Has worked well and rather quickly over the weekend.

I'm still sore from our 5 1/2 mile walk yesterday which was a 350 calorie burn. I'll take that thank you.

^^ this^^

This...except 1,500 calories and my exercise calories. Don't deprive yourself.

Way, way too many pieces to list. Being in Vancouver I have a lot of Lulu.

Love my Lulu. Not crazy about Chip right now but I do still love their clothing.

Lean Body Mass (Muscles) and Total Daily Energy Expenditure. Try at least 1,800 for a month and see how you're doing. We women like a little muscle on our guys. No string beans allowed :)

I go with MFP. If I were completely consistent with exercise I'd do TDEE but I'm not. So I stick to 1,500 calories and track my workouts.

Good luck on that workout on 1,200 calories. Way to low for a guy