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RVachon71, how close to the mark do you consider MFP?

I'm not saying I want to blindly follow the food pyramid. But I also don't want to blindly follow MFP. I don't think either is right. One seems too high and one seems too low. I'm just trying to figure out what's best for me and to understand how they can be so different. Food science, like all science, is constantly…

I've actually got the opposite problem. I was shocked to see how few calories I've been ingesting. I've been trying to battle weight off and on for a long time. And I guess when I go off I go really far off. But I've been trying to eat well and healthy and exercise since September and wasn't seeing much in the way of…

I think their webmaster must be on vacation this week or something. I had a number of server access errors last night and when you go to analyze physical activity it lists all the activities you've put in with a description of the activity level (only Moderate or vigorous activities get added to your calorie requirements),…

Okay, so that's like a sedentary level TDEE? Then add in 700 calories for walking, standing, talking, biking, etc? So MFP really underestimates then. It lists my daily energy expenditure at 2100 calories on the Active level.

Hah! This is a very good point. But if that's their intention, they should make their website easier to use. I personally found it a bit unwieldy.

Are you saying my BMR or RMR should be 2254 to maintain? That's way higher than every BMR/RMR calculator I've ever used. Where did you get those figures from?

I agree with you on both counts. All the online TDEE calculators I've ever done have pointed to a 2200-2300 energy expenditure in a day, but that's assuming I've picked the right activity level. And for the most part, all the places that have such choices suck at defining them. I don't consider my job sedentary, but I…

Hmm... I'm pretty sure they don't want me to eat sodium laden foods as that's something that was pointed out as a negative when I analyzed yesterday's diet. Although, their system is lacking a fair bit in identifying what's good and bad. It's smiley faces! Who uses smiley faces? Anyways, these are their dietary…

Have you ever used any of those calculators on the internet to calculate RMR or TDEE? If so, how well do they match up to the actual lab test?

You can try to find some low carb tortilla wraps. I don't know where you are, but at my local grocery store I found some Ole brand High Fiber, low Carb wraps that have only 71 calories, 5 grams of carbs, 8 grams of protein and 12 grams of fiber. Just fill it with normal sandwich fillings and you have a low carb sandwich!

I've decided to take a slightly different approach. Using three or four different online TDEE calculators, I've calculated what the TDEE would be for a sedentary person of my height using my goal wait, which happens to equal just around 1600 calories on all the different TDEE calculators (ranging between 1500-1700). So I…

Any of the board experts want to weigh in (no pun intended!)?

I was eating a rather low-cal breakfast for a long time. 1/2 cup regular oats cooked in 1 cup water in the microwave, then add some cinnamon and 1/2 cup of applesauce and a tiny bit of sugar free maple syrup. Add a banana for a 300 cal breakfast. But when I started on MFP I realized that my low-cal breakfast + low-cal…

The problem is that I'm not sure which way to experiment. Adding more calories? Not logging exercise? I saw a previous post where someone mentioned that they gained weight using MFP logging exercise until they realized that they had calculated their exercise in when they set up their MFP account. I think I may have done…