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Bob, those numbers look right based upon your RMR. Wish I had your RMR with my 6'6" and 200#LBM. I haven't had mine done in a lab but according to the charts it should be about 2400. I recently upped my cals to 3200... I was in the basement and plateaued.

160 x 12 is probably what your BMR is and not your TDEE. The IFYM site figures fat loss of about 700 cals per day. Your TDEE based upon the activity level you selected is probably 2600 or so. Check the figures and what you are selecting.

Gardening has a M.E.T.S. (Metabolic Equivalent) of 4-5 which means that this activity burns 4-5 times your Resting Metabolic Rate. So... if your resting rate (~BMR) is approximately 75 Cals/hr then an hour of gardening is about 300-375 ADDITIONAL calories to your resting rate. Gardening is also equivalent to walking 3.5-4…

I am a similar size (6'6" & 330# when I started). I was gungho with daily trips to the gym before work and was eating about 1800-2000 cals per day and dropping weight pretty well. Then I stalled for several months. I had an injury and a schedule change and could not go to the gym for a few weeks. I slept more and did not…

OP - 13,000 steps each day is exercise. That is like over 4 miles of walking isn't it? It definitely puts you way out of the "sedentary" category. I am a "cube ra"t and my non-exercise activity level is light to moderatively active based upon using a METS activity calculator. Sitting doing office work is something like 1.5…

You are double dipping. Your TDEE is 2484. You don't take 15% off of that and tell MFP you want to lose weight. You should either enter your 2111 into MFP and claim zero pound weightloss or use 2484 and let MFP back it back based upon your weightloss goal(.5 lbs per week = 250 cals/day =2234 ) which is in the neighborhood…

I attended OA about 20 years ago and lost weight. Everybody on this forum uses the power that comes from sharing a common experience to help in their Fitness goals. If it was just an intellectual exercise then what could be simpler. Eat less and be more active. A little pamphlet of calories in common foods and a pair of…

Looks like you are overtraining by doing all of that exercise on 1500 calories. Your body will try to compensate for the energy you are expending by increasing the efficency of your metabolism. Google metabolic adaptation to get the skinny on it. Your cortisol levels probably reflect the physiological stress you are going…

I agree with the previous poster. Eat them back or else you will gain the weight back quickly. You may lose weight a little quicker but you will make changes to your metabolism that will make you system much more efficient in storing fat, which an 18 year old woman doesn't want to do. You want to keep you metabolism…

I have to come out on the limit carbs side of the equation. I have lost 90#'s twice and have been a nurse for almost 40 years. I have seen too many healthy looking people with Type 2 diabetes that is typically associated with obesity. Carbs are sugar by whatever definition you may want to use whether they are complex or…

Ruby, with your BMR of 1450 or so, your TDEE with 3 kids is at least 2200 without the "shredding". Don't know if you are breastfeeding but that is about 500 cals more per day. So.... 10% less than the 2200 is around 1980 cals plus "shredding" work out plus breastfeeding if applicable. You can use an activity calculator…

Log your food in MFP and any exercise that is not stride related like cycling, swimming,etc. Fitbit will send across your physical activity levels related to walking and running or zumba(?).

@Skinny - you want to lose 30 lbs in 4 months which is crazy but doable. The real question is whether you can handle gaining the weight back in months 5-6? It is fairly easy to lose weight but to keep it off is the trick. You can do very low cal or fasting type diet, lose the weight, have your hair start to fall out, stop…

I have the FitBit's Aria wireless scale that does BF% and transmits it to the FitBit site which is linked into MFP. Mine doesn't swing widely like some of the other folks have experienced with theirs. The scale is very good. There are no "Good" BF% computations. The calipers are cheap but accuracy varies considerably based…

I am of similar size and it is entirely possible. Your heart rate was probably near maxing out so 800-1000/hr is believable. As your fitness improves your HR will come down along with your calorie burn (and hopefully a little weight!). Another poster mentioned subracting your BMR which should be about 100 cals/hr. but am…

Thanks Doc for pointing out the reference links. I am used to reading sites that have them actually listed like in a journal. I did go on to look at the references and they are only consumer oriented things like the CDC brochure that tells us to eat our fruits and vegetables and unfortunately it has not studies in it. They…

This is just a Mayo web page without references. The poster had requested a peer reviewed study.

A kilocalorie which is what we call calories when speaking about food energy is "a unit of energy equal to the heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kg of pure water by 1º C". Nothing about quality or quantitiy of the substance that is being used to derive the heat. Now if the question is about the effects of some…

I agree with the wolfman and you don't need to "work out like crazy". You can loose weight and be fit by working out 3 x week with some resistance training and spend the rest of the time chasing around those "wild" kids of yours. Everybody thinks they need to work out everyday to lose weight or be fit. You just throw your…

Of course they work if applied correctly. The proper use is to take 2 capsules per meal. The first step is to put one capsule on each row of bottom teeth and clamp securely. Now eat while keeping the capsules securely clamped. After enjoying your meal then swallow the capsules. You should not recycle them for the next…

Yeah Liz, I am not one of the fitness freaks either. I go to the gym but I am trying to convince myself that it is fun. Maybe someday soon that will be true. The real good news is that you don't have to exercise like a madman to lose weight. 80% or more of weight loss is diet. It is a lot easier to deny yourself a Snicker…

Healthy food is a very debatable topic here on MFP. The orthodox Paleo folks have one idea. The Dean Ornesh diet folks have another. There are some who say it doesn't matter what you eat as long as it fits your calories. The latter group are usually younger. Older and hopefully wiser folks say to eat the least processed…

Steph, I have the diagnosis.... I looked at Thurs and Friday's meals. You were 600 calories deficit for each day. You are not following your plan. Your body responds to the deficit, jacks around with your hormone levels, and you get "emotional". You are not little Miss Lonely Hearts.... you are just hungry. Your body is…

Your BMR is almost 2000 calories. Walking around the office is about 70 cals per hour. That 2500 plus your real activities.

I have to disagree a bit with Dr. Purple that low carb diets have the potential to slow metabolism. Not sure why that would be so. Lower carbs reduce insulin spiking but I don't see that slowing metabolism. There have been studies where ketogenic diets have been used for treating thyroid diseases like Hashimoto's disease.…

I have the FitBit One and their Aria scale. It is a total turnkey operation. I just log into my phone and it tells me how much to eat. The only exercise I enter is when I am doing cardio that does not work for a FitBit like cycling, etc. It is a good motivator to take the stairs that extra time so you break the 10 floor…

I used a medically supervised 700 cal or so a day shake diet to lose 90 pounds. From 360 to 270 in a relatively short period of time. I gained 60 of that back within a year. I have since lost that 60 through eating and exercising. I am of Scotch descent so I vote for keeping your money in your pocketbook and just work on…

These are 90 calories each and have 12 gms of of protein and 7 gms of carbs. The label shows each serving has about 1/3rd of your vitamins and minerals. So... it appears that these are true meal replacements and the idea of the program is to eat a "normal" 3rd meal of the day. For most folks this would be from 400-600…

Ms Dew, Are you saying your Lean Body Mass (LBM) is increasing on your 800 cal diet? This figure would go up if you are "building muscles". Your 40 gms or so of Protein may be sparing you from suffering from muscle tissue loss but unless you are real small I wouldn't think so. An 800 cal diet would be like a stomach…

I would count the calories. Not to be nasty but snacking all day is a bad habit. Some snackers have been known to get 30 pounds or so overweight because of their behavior. Perhaps tracking those snacks will prevent that from happening again. It is not hard to move from celery to nuts. From nuts to popcorn. From popcorn to…