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Why not eat below BMR?
I've wandered through these forums and I see the idea of not eating below one's BMR touted as gospel. The usual line is that BMR is the minimum caloric needs of a body in order to function (the "if you were in a coma" line is often used). However, there is never any accompanying explanation as to why this number has any…
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The Most Accurate Method of Calculating TDEE?
It seems that TDEE is the key to a lot of this. However, I am still a little leery of any calculations that use such broad-defined variables like "sedentary, light, moderate, and active", but it appears all the available "calculators" use these broad brush strokes. Has anyone sought out a more accurate means of calculating…
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How to Find a Place that will Check my BMR/RMR?
My doctor said that he doesn't know of any facility that does this. I've searched Google for the Rockville, MD area - there isn't anything I found. I have an e-mail in to the local university. To those that got theirs done, how did you find out where to get this done? Thanks so much!
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The Evil of Processed Foods - Can Someone Explain it to Me?
Despite a ton of advice and apparent research indicating that a caloric deficit (that isn't so drastic as to lead to a downregulated metabolism) will inevitably lead to weight loss, absent hypothyroidism or some other medical issue. Now, what actually is lost is another matter (i.e. too much muscle along with the fat), but…
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Eating Back Calories - A Question about HRM Readouts
When folks eat back calories as measured by an HRM, are you eating back the entire amount? Aren't those calorie amounts inflated because they include your base calorie burn? In other words, I burn 1.2cal/minute at rest, so for 60 minutes of exercise, I would need to substract 72 or so calories from whatever it shows I've…
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Why do MFP Calorie Calculations Not Add Up?
For example, on February 8th I ate 187g Carbs, 99g Fat and 149g Protein. Given that Carbs and Protein are 4 calories per gram and Fat is 9 calories per gram, one would think that the total calories consumed for the day would be: (187*4) + (99*9) + (149*4) for a total of 2,235. Yet MFP shows total calories at 2,465! What am…
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Anyone up for a chat?
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Anyone up for Chat?
Head to tlk.io/mfp Hope to see you!
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Chat Room for Motivation!
Hey all, not sure if one exists - and if it does, just let me know - but I thought to start a chatroom where MFP'ers could hop in to talk, chat and do whatever else. I've always enjoyed being able to chat to others in real time as opposed to forum threads - especially when I'm feeling a bit discouraged as I am now - so I…
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Chat Room for Motivation!
Hey all, not sure if one exists - and if it does, just let me know - but I thought to start a chatroom where MFP'ers could hop in to talk, chat and do whatever else. I've always enjoyed being able to chat to others in real time as opposed to forum threads - especially when I'm feeling a bit discouraged as I am now - so I…
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TDEE Approach for People with Varied Activity Levels?
The nature of my work requires that I have very varying activity levels. I am primarily at a desk job, but some days to much more walking than others. This also leads me to be able to work out every other day, or two days in a row with a gap, and so on... Are there folks out there with a similar situation, and how do you…
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Best Video Workout (Insanity, 30Day...) for Semi-Beginner?
As someone who has not yet domne one of these, what would you recommend as the best?I'm 37, 60 pounds overweight and not in the best physical shape, but have been steadily doing an hour of intense cardio each day for the past 3 weeks, and notice that my endurance has drastically improved already. 90X looks like it requires…
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Concerns with Ambiguous TDEE Calculation (Link Inside)
Finally, I found someone else who shares my concern with these so called "activity factors" and how amorphous they are. Hopefully this helps out some others in how they go about calculating TDEE (and the resulting caloric defict to follow). http://calorieline.com/tools/tdee#clinebmr An excerpt:
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Will MFP ever provide a TDEE-based cataloging system?
While it is easy enough to set one's NET calories to the TDEE-20% figure, it seems that one isn't able to share their exercise efforts since the only way to catalog exercise is by using 1 calorie. I'd like to be able to log the calories I've burned - both as a way to share with (and encourage ) my MFP buddies and for…
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[Men] Can you Post your BMR, TDEE, and Calories per day?
I'm trying to get a sense of where folks are. I'm 37, 5'10", 32% BF, 246 lbs. My stats: BMR: 1990-2000 (depending on Calc, using Katch-McArdle formula). TDEE: Stated TDEE for sedentary is 2500 or so (I calculated against sedentary so I could control the eat-back of calories) Calories Consuming Per Day: I'm eating around…
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Can Someone Offer a Little Help with BMR/TDEE?
Hi All, I’ve been reading up on BMR/TDEE calculation and wanted a little help in making sure that I understand it correctly. Based on Jyska's Post (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/680246-tdee-bmr-what-they-are-and-what-to-do-with-them?hl=TDEE), I headed over to this site…
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A Few Questions for the Veterans! (And an Introduction)
Hi Everyone! So glad to have finally found a site that is both useful in tracking and in community support. The vibe around here is amazing! This is my first post, so I apologize if I’m asking some basic questions (I have looked at a bunch of threads, but seem to have missed concrete answers to these questions). Some stats…
