laurenmcd94

That's a good idea!

Thanks guys (: Every day is different and I can't exactly log all of my calories the moment I eat them, but I do write them down and keep track of what I'm eating so that I can look it up later. I guess I'll stick to my "no lower than 1650 and no higher than 2000" rule - 2000 is a little higher than I'd like to go but it's…

Thanks!!! I am a huge bean fan and currently I'm eating a lot of them. I forgot about nuts! I have some chick peas, whenever I decide to cook them I'm gonna figure out how to make hummus haha :)

I'm confused - Are you saying I should or shouldn't eat the calories back? Sorry!

Yeah, I completely understand that. I just didn't know if I was correct or not in my thinking that by burning calories, it was pointless to put them back. But if what I am being told is accurate, and exercise raises your BMR, then it makes very much sense to me that the calculator wants me to eat 2000 instead of 1650 today…

I know what you mean! Your body just adds more fat to compensate (:

Yeah, it's 3AM where I am and I'm sitting here wondering how the heck I'm gonna eat the rest of the calories haha! I'd have to binge in order to do it. I totally understand plateaus even though I don't understand this stuff too well - it just makes sense that your intake or output is off if you're hitting a plateau.…

Thanks everyone! I get what you're all trying to say. The BMR stuff always throws me off and confuses me. So basically, even though the site uses formulas that are technically estimates, I should trust what the numbers tell me and try to eat 2,000 if it's telling me to? I read a blog post one day about how this girl lost…

To be honest, I didn't, and I had a feeling you were just being sarcastic, but I decided to let you know that in a different day and age, I would have gotten offended by that, so I know there are others who could get offended by the same thing. I've grown a thicker skin, but I'm just letting you know that unless you know…

Thankyou! I will! (: It just threw me for a loop that someone decided to be rude because I've always found this site so helpful and full of kind people.

Yeah, that's always how I've seen it! It evens out to around a -1000 calorie deficit because I burned 466, and to lose 1lb a week I need to eat around 1800 a day... so 1650 on top of the burnt 466 ends up with the deficit that I wanted. Thankyou for your help!

Thankyou!!

Yessss! I'm not the person who can stuff themselves full of food 3x a day. I'd rather snack occasionally and even when I didn't have the option to eat healthy (I recently got a job and now I have money to but my own food and not eat the food my parents food) I ate the 5 meals rather than 3. I hate feeling too stuffed!

It was really rude of you, I'm sorry if it's rude of me to be telling you that but it's kind of mean to ask someone who's 100lbs overweight, "haven't you ever eaten over 2000 calories?" No ****, sherlock, how do you think I got this way? But when you're watching what you eat and taking care of yourself, and eating foods…

Thanks! I appreciate it (: I've always heard the term, "don't exercise so that you can eat more," and so that's why it threw me for a loop. I guess I just wasn't sure if it helps keep the metabolism going? But to me, if you're burning off calories through exercise, then... You're burning them off... They're gone... Why put…

Thankyou! I'm new to this and all I'm trying to understand is how, even though I burned off 466 calories through exercise, eating them back is going to help me lose weight. To me that makes absolutely no sense.

Excuse me? Of course I have, but that's easier when you're eating pizza and fast food. Why give me the attitude? Check my food diary today. In my eyes, I stuffed my face, but it was on healthy fresh food. I ate a lot more healthy food today and ate less calories than I would eating lesser amounts of bad food and consuming…