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I'm doing an hour on the bike in the morning. Which according to this site burns 1105 calories and I do an hour of water aerobics in the evening which burns 635. So really that's 1740 calories per day. I could stay longer and do more but I'm trying to make sure its something that's easy for me to maintain. An hour in the…

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! I've been hesitant to post on the message boards but I'm glad I took the plunge today and did!

I read it, and it actually makes a bit of sense. I'm going to try to add some calories in throughout the day and see if that helps. Seems kinda crazy to think that to lose weight I have to eat more. But I'll try anything at this point. I've been feeling like a failure for the past few days because I thought I was doing…

Min number of calories a day I'm supposed to take in is 1700. I came up with total calories burned by taking my BMR and subtracting the total calories I ate in a day. Then I took that number and added the number of calories I burned through exercise. On average I have been burning 1500 calories per day from exercise. I see…

but it doesn't seem to be happening. I did the math for the last 11 days. BMR-total calories ingested+calories burned to give me total calories burned, which for the last 11 days was 19,800. I then divided that by 3500 which gave me roughly 5.6. So that should have been 5.6 pounds lost right? I haven't lost 1 pound! Has…

From Seattle, Wa! Just feeling my way around here on the message boards. Hoping to find some moral support. Have quite a bit of weight to lose and things don't seem to be working for me.