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For 99% of people, the statistical data should produce a fairly-to-very accurate picture. As with any bell curve, most data points fit within a fairly rigid spectrum, and then there are a few data points on either end of the spectrum that are just out of whack. The few complaints I've heard of regarding accuracy are from…

Let me rephrase that a little: BMR calculators give you an estimation at the best of time. Your doctor can (depending on the equipment he has available) either accurately determine your BMR or send you someplace that can.

No one here is going to be able to answer this for you with any sort of accuracy, especially given the paucity of information. BMR is an estimation at the best of times, and if you have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism then you are by definition an outlier; your numbers are going to stray very far from normal statistics.…

Here are a few thoughts and suggestions, for what they are worth. If the math isn't matching what is happening in the real world, then some assumptions are probably off somewhere. Your food diary looks pretty good. Did you set the 1200 calorie goal, or did MFP? If you aren't watching what you are dealing with, some…

Same here!

Go by what your nutritionist says if you are in doubt. MFP uses statistics to estimate, and mileage can vary. Nutritionist presumably has some schooling/training on this, and can (should) give you fairly tailored advice for your situation. Just make sure that they are aware that you are going to be working out as well,…

Honestly, at this starting point you really need to talk to a doctor instead of a, more or less, anonymous internet community. Pretty generic advice can be given to many people that have significant amounts of weight to lose, but the closer you are to a healthy weight the less effective such generic advice is. You need to…

BMR is your resting calorie burn. Basically, it is the caloric burn if you have no other activity (staying in bed all day is the popular analogy). Activities burn more calories on top of that weight. Eating extremely low calories is a risky diet strategy (I won't go into it, because there are constantly threads going into…

Bodybugg and Fitbit are really two different items, despite the fact that they are billed as competitors. BB, for all intents and purposes, is a HRM that you keep on you at all times. Because of that, it is more accurate. it is also more bulky, cumbersome, and has that pesky subscription fee. I've never used it, so I don't…

@Plaid405 - Please, for the love of everything good and holy, don't pay attention to everything your trainer says. Trainers aren't generally (in fact virtually never) medically trained in any way, shape, or form. There isn't even a standard certification or training standard for them. You could bill yourself as a trainer…

http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp The best quote to me is the bit at the end: "Although not trained in medicine or nutrition, I intuitively knew that the advice to drink eight glasses of water per day was nonsense. The advice fully meets three important criteria for being an American health urban legend:…

That 2646 will include BMR, which should be the majority of your caloric burn for the day. 181 calorie adjustment in MFP means that you are burning only about 180 calories more than MFP was expecting. MFP uses a BMR * 1.3 or 1.4 (I forget which number) estimate for daily activity.

When you're thirsty, drink. When you're not thirsty, it's okay to drink a little bit more but don't go crazy. The majority of your fluid intake is likely to be via food. Over hydration can potentially be dangerous.

Count it. It is activity throughout the day, up to and including fast paced walking, jogging, or running. Don't double dip, though, by adding activities in MFP at the same time as high burn activity on FB.

Veggies are great for this. A couple of hundred calories goes a long way with baby carrots or celery or whatever. Fruit is a little more calorie intense because of the natural sugar, but very good. Nuts (especially almonds) are great. Any of these things make very filling snacks that will help you last without feeling so…

Within reason, stay under your goal. If you are very overweight you can be a lot more flexible with how much under you should be, but the closer to goal weight the more finicky your body will be to undernourishment. 50 or 100 calories is probably a fairly safe range, depending on how close to goal you are.

I wouldn't say overpriced. At $100, something that can increase my general activities levels throughout the day is worth its weight in gold. Fancy? Certainly. It does what it does very well, and it's very well thought out in functionality. Just understand what it is.

At the end of the day, the FB is a pedometer. It is an incredibly great one with lots of tools and a great website allowing you a lot of analysis, but it is just a pedometer. It figures caloric burn based on statistics like MFP does, albeit more accurately than MFP because it can see your steps, pace, and activity levels.…

Got one for a late Christmas present and love it. It drives you to be more active throughout the day, and constantly challenge yourself. Just understand what it is; it is an extremely cool and effective pedometer tied to a website for data analysis, but it isn't a HRM so there is a limit to how accurate the information is.

You've been a touch low on caloric intake a few times, but there is enough fluff in there that I wouldn't think it should have any significant effect. Sounds like you are doing the right things, for the most part. Adjust your exercises to see if your body has just become too efficient for what you are doing. Maybe tweak…

Really, that just depends on how anal you are about the specific numbers. That can give you very accurate data as to what you are burning, but whether that is important depends on the eye of the beholder. Frankly, your 'in calories' are going to be relatively inaccurate, too (even if you are logging right, food…

Keep in mind that BMI is generalized statistics intended for broad population studies, and never really intended to be used on the basis of individual people. Because of the simplicity of it, it has been popularized, but it is always going to be a round peg in a square hole. Your body frame type should be considered as…

Probably don't need to eat them all back, since the numbers are always going to be somewhat inaccurate anyway. 75-85% would probably be a good range, unless you are using particularly accurate methods of tracking calorie burn (eg HRM). If you are hungry, make sure you eat. Your body is probably trying to tell you something.

1200 isn't really the minimum caloric intake you should have. The problem is that MFP has to use generalized statistics to figure out numbers, and when you get that low using (essentially) generic data the people that stray significantly from the bell curve can end up with really bad answers. Since really bad answers can…

Yes

The 1300 includes a deficit of calories so you can lose weight. It is probably working off of BMR * 1.2 (to account for daily activity, relatively sedentary), - 500 calories a day (to account for 1lb/week weight loss).

While this is technically a fallacy when worded that way, as other people have said it's true in the sense of volume to mass. A ton of feathers is going to take a lot more volume than a ton of steel.

It sounds like you are making a lot of sacrifices for your family. I'm impressed that you've been able to keep it together, because I would be pulling my hair out. Just in the cases of indivdual weeks around holidays where there would be overcrowding I get irritated. I'm assuming that your brother and his gf are chipping…

The times that you eat are irrelevent as long as you can keep to daily/weekly overall goals. Spreading your meals helps prevent hunger (and thus temptation to cheat), but at the end of the day you could eat all of your calories at one point in the day and be fine.

Actually, the problem with water toxicity (or overhydration, water poisoning, or the half dozen other names for it) is that eventually you overwhelm your bodies ability to deal with it. When you lose water through sweat or urine it takes small amounts on nutrients (particularly sodium) with it. Eventually, you will lose…