jurbi Member

well and i'm not even sure if i logged EVERYTHING i ate that day, usually fridays are kinda cheat days for us.

ok this explains perfectly what i have been trying to ask!! so since i'm not sedentary i should eat back only a portion of my extra calories lost.. aiming for maybe a bit higher than my BMR? so if my estimated BMR is 1350 maybe i should aim for 1500-1600 calories per day and letting the rest be deficit?

LOL i have 4 kids to keep up with and a house to clean and a LOT of walking/running around.. i rarely sit still! I'm not a slow person, when i do things i do things quick and it raises my heart rate.. and i'm using the vivofit

Right, thats why I used that as my calorie goal, and I am using my garmin for burned calories but using mfp to log how many calories i'm eating, I have mfp connected to my garmin account so it automatically adds my calories eaten.

1489 consumed-905 active=584 net

I thought that was Basal metabolic rate? Basically resting calories burned

1489 consumed-905 active=584 net

On my garmin screen it says something like this 129 consumed-338* active = -209 net *Active=total calories-BMR calories

Right, I'm actually going off of what my garmin is saying and it breaks it down by telling me what is my resting calories and what is my extra calories, it separates it for me. The numbers are a little different but even my garmin is saying that there is a negative calorie and my calorie goal is my BMR..

I'm wearing a step counter and heart rate monitor so it takes off calories based on my everyday activity plus I go on walks/runs with my kids.. At the end of the day it automatically puts the days worth of calories burned as a total.

Ok!! I just don't want to eat too few calories for my body to start storing it!!!

Oh I set my goal as my BMR so that I eat the same amount of calories each day and not eat back any exercise calories at all..

So I shouldn't try to have a deficit?? If I got it close to 0 wouldn't I just be maintaining my current weight?

could it be muscle gain?? I joined the army in 2003 having never worked out in my life, after 4 months of basic training and working out EVERY DAY i gained 16 lbs of muscle.... my eating was better also because at that point i was eating take out 2 times a day then in basic it was 3 square meals of healthy food every day...

wine is the only think i DONT measure, for that same reason:)

i just use about 12 grams of natural honey.....

i enter my food into MPF and log all my extra workout on the fitbit site...the food from MFP links to fitbit and the fitbit exercise links to MFP so it all connects.....

i try to have an ounce of 70% dark chocolate a day whenever it is in the house... but i have four kids so its hard to keep ANY chocolate in the house anyway:)

alpine valley 9 grain sandwich bread... really good toasted and only has a handful of ingredients that you can actually pronounce.. also just 12 grams of carbs and 65 calories per piece..... i have one with 1/4 mashed avocado and fried egg in the morning... an under 300 calorie breakfast:)

lisa kudrow

done:)

run a military obstacle course

we're pretty similar height: 5'3 sw: 130 cw: 120 gw: 115

check out emeals.com.. i'm doing the low calorie meal plan but there are others like paleo and gluten free. My meal plan consists of a lot of fresh ingredients, not processed. And the recipes i'm getting are all under 500 calories.