TrishDLish81

I'm a lot like you. I have a 3.5 year old and a 1 year old, and I also work full time. In order to get the kids to daycare and get to work on time, I'm up at 5:30am (or 5:45 if I skip washing my hair, lol) and I usually don't get home until 6:00 or so. Then, it's my precious couple of hours per day to spend with my kids…

I always thought that it was 0.8 -1 gram per pound of *lean body mass,* not total body weight? Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Well, here's what I came up with - LBM of 122 (not 100% sure but should be close, last BF test was a couple of months ago and gave me 44.8%, might be a teeny bit lower now but not significantly so) = 55.33kg. 21.6*55.33 = 1195 + 370 = 1565 BMR. 1565 * 1.2 = 1878, less 20% is 1502. In reality, I would give myself a factor…

Thanks everyone for the great advice. I may get my RMR tested anyway, and if it shakes out to be pretty "normal" I've got some awesome tips and some more things to try here. I'm not looking for immediate results; I want a lasting lifestyle change, so I'm cool with some trial and error to find what's right for me. I've now…

:smile: Haha, it's not that I don't want my friends and family to see what I eat - my diary is open to them. I don't want them to read my forum postings! :laugh: My "IRL" friends list is associated with the account I log my food on :smile: .

My FitBit calorie burns tend to fall in line with most recommended BMR/TDEE calculators. Using the one recommended in IPOARM, my average daily FitBit burn falls between lightly active and moderately active (about a 1.4 multiplier), which feels exactly right for the amount of exercise I'm currently doing. 85% just takes…

That could be a factor. I usually get to bed between 11:30 and 12:00, and I'm up by 6:15 at the latest for work (alarm goes off at 5:30, though, haha). I just don't know what else to do...there's literally no other time for me to work out, and I feel like my workouts should be more important than a couple of hours of…

Thanks, that may be my next trial in terms of calorie range. I've had my body fat tested, so your formula would put me right at 1500 at a 1.2 activity multiplier. Including my exercise I'm probably slightly more active than that, but I can try eating a straight 1500 for a month or so and see where that gets me. I'm pretty…

I had it checked about 2 years ago, just before I got pregnant with my now 1 year old daughter and I was having the same troubles losing the baby weight from my pregnancy with my now 3 year old son. At that time my TSH was 3.32 and my T4 free was 1.07. My doctor told me my TSH was in the higher range of normal but I should…

Someone else recently suggested this to me, and I'm carefully considering it. On one hand, my nature rails against the idea that I should need to eliminate a major food group in order to be at a healthy weight. On the other hand, anything is worth a shot at this point, since obviously something is not working the way that…

I don't know if I necessarily "graze." I usually eat breakfast, then lunch, then an afternoon snack, then dinner, then usually but not always a post-workout snack. Unfortunately the only time I can work out is pretty late at night. With a 3 year old and a 1 year old, an hour-long (one-way) commute and a full time job,…

When I did TDEE - 20%, I was eating around 2100 calories per day, give or take a little bit. Instead of using the IPOARM method, I used averages from my FitBit in terms of daily burn (about a month of data) since I thought that could give me a better picture of my true activity level. Right now I have my goal set to 1750…

Height - 5'5.'" Weight - currently 221, start weight of 236 on Memorial Day. 31 years old. Lifestyle - desk job. Workout routine - Mondays and Thursdays are 30-45 minutes of legs and abs strength training on circuit machines plus ~30 minutes of cardio, Wednesdays and Saturdays are 30-45 minutes of upper body strength…

Thanks (sincerely). I've read that; that's where my TDEE - 20% experiment I referenced was inspired. I did that for 5 or 6 weeks and gained a little over that time. That's why I'm thinking my *calculated* TDEE, based on my weight and everything else that goes into it, might actually be much higher than my *actual* TDEE.…

Interesting. I've been sitting w/o a real loss for almost 3 weeks now despite all my hard work (I do weigh every day but only record on Mondays, and I've been fluctuating within 2-3 pounds of the same number with no downward trend and no new lows), and as I was getting dressed this morning I happened to look at my thighs…

I found some great recipes at dashingdish.com in the recipes/shakes section. Pumpkin pie and frozen hot chocolate!! Yum.

Can you weigh the bread? I would think that getting a weight and then just using the nutritional information for the same weight of another hoagie roll would probably get you the closest.

Thank you both, so much. I've been doing low carb for a week now (today's my weigh-in), and even in this initial water-weight loss period I'm only down 3lbs, which is a bit less than I was expecting, especially at my weight (I have a decent amount to lose). I think for the time being, I'm going to move my carbs down to 10%…

Are you suggesting that until a child is old enough to recognize what is healthy and choose that over something that is junky (but tastier) - which, by all accounts, could be well into their teen years or even older, or maybe never, judging the number of obese adults these days - they should not be allowed to even know…