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I think I need to go to a weightloss for dummies class to push my way past the 160's. Today I'm trying to look at what I burn versus what I eat and I think my IQ is dropping like a stone. It's math. Calories In Vs Calories Burned. Easy! Right??? Wrong!
The calories burned on this site seem a little high. I haven't even entered barn chores or running around cleaning house after work and I've already apparently burned 2500 calories. So.. if I add everything that would be around 3000 calories burned a day? And I eat about 2000 if you figure in a little variance from whats recorded.. so I should be burning 1000 calories more than I eat a day. So.. why am I still in the 160's?? I need a calorie burned tracker or something. It seems like every site has a different idea of how much you burn depending on what you're doing.
Today I'm motivated by all the calories burned info I've been looking through trying to find something accurate. Turns out one slice of breakfast pizza is equal to either 1 or 2 hours of stacking hay bales depending on who you ask. I'm beginning to think I have to figure out who estimates calories burned to the lowest amount and go with them. Maybe.. I'm still confused.
Diet Calendar Entries for 26 October 2012:
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1683 kcal
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Fat: 56.99g | Prot: 93.57g | Carb: 191.90g.
Breakfast: Cafe Collection White Chocolate Caramel Latte Coffee Creamer, Coffee (Brewed From Grounds), Fat Free French Vanilla Creamer, breakfast pizza. Lunch: keebler granola bar, mcdonalds southwest dressing, Premium Southwest Salad with Grilled Chicken. Dinner: Ice Cream Cone, Grilled Chicken Club. more...
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2237 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Driving - 2 hours, Housework - 1 hour, Breastfeeding - 2 hours, Desk Work - 7 hours, Resting - 6 hours, Sleeping - 6 hours. more...
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It's all nuts and BS in my book. The only thing I put in is my desk work (and 2 hours less that I actually do) and my true exercise. The weekends I will put in housework , etc sometimes. I think my sleep and resting is about a normal day for me. Plus I know the cals recorded are a science and too low if anything. I figure I prob eat about 200 more that this tells me. Still think I should be losing but then there's age, metabolism etc. It pisses me off but what can you do?
26 Oct 12 by member: thynes
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yep. the FS (and most websites) estimates of what you burn are way too high. Same with the readouts on ellipticals / treadmills at you gym. I have a heartrate monitor watch that will say I burned 400 calories on a run, I'll put that run into the activity tracker - at a slower pace - and fatsecret will say I burned 600 calories. I set my default to 24hrs a day of sleeping. FS says that = 1900cals for me, which is about what my non-workout-day resting metabolic rate is as calculated by the bodpod machine.
26 Oct 12 by member: JessWhatINeeded
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I think this site estimates high for calories burned. I've had weeks that I've burned (according to the site) over 1000 calories, which should be a pound down, but my weight didn't budge. The site probably averages and everybody has a different metabolism, so there's bound to be errors.
26 Oct 12 by member: mars2kids
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Just keep experimenting - you'll find your formula.
26 Oct 12 by member: BuffyBear
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good idea jess, think I'll set mine that way.
26 Oct 12 by member: thynes
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Have you thought of upping your lean protein? I found changing percentages of calories coming from protein to carb worked for me. I'll have your daily protein intake at breakfast as i glance at your calendar. I exercise and even if i eat the same calories each day if too much of them come from carb i'm stuck....could just be me.
26 Oct 12 by member: Preggo38
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I wear a heart rate monitor when i exercise...mostly because i thought i'd die alone in the basement if i didn't and found FS was a little higher but not by an appreciable amount. I have a fitbit tracker right now so that's why my food is logged on MFP now and i was grossly underestimating my calorie expenditure.
26 Oct 12 by member: Preggo38
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I agree that fatsecret measures your calorie burning too high. I have found that listening closely to my body about what to eat works better for me than measuring. When I measure I think I eat more! I know that doesn't work for everyone, though.
27 Oct 12 by member: cindylynnwho
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