chrisw77's Journal, 27 March 2019

unless you're eating in a crowded restaurant and doing so loudly and/or messily. Then it's quite public.  

Except for this week....gah...I've gained 2 pounds so far this week on a 500 kcal deficit and keeping protein up, and sleeping, and drinking water, and etc etc etc. Guess I'm missing the patient part. 

LZenn, lately I have been gaining weight every time I exercise.  

Maybe we're gaining muscles, Keilin :) 

Yeah yeah - it'll come off some day. "It's my bar of chocolate, Give it to me now!"  

How do you measure #5? 

#5 is technically all you need. Sleep, water, protein etc effect how much you burn or hold onto so if #5 is adhered to then you’ll lose weight. 

Srossca, there are several free calculators online to determine your bmr and tdee. I prefer to find my bmr and use my watch or tracker to see exactly what I burn on a daily basis. I find it easier to eat lighter early in the day so that if I don’t burn as much then I don’t have to cut back as much at dinner or snack time. If I burned more than expected then I get an extra snack or just have a bigger deficit for the day. 

Is it like the old "you have to spend money to make money" line? You have to gain weight to lose weight? Though, I suppose if you're gaining muscle weight, eventually you'll have enough active tissue to be burning the hell out of some calories just sitting around, and will cross the tipping point over into weight loss (as long as you have fat to lose and don't lose all them muscles) On a related note: I'm still in a 500 to 1000 calorie per day deficit and I've gained almost 10 pounds back in the last month. Still in the smaller pants though, and lifting more each week, so I guess I won't complain. If my overall body weight must go up for my waist and belly to shrink, so be it. 

I was just thinking of a really simple way to measure your burn. If you're 100-150 pounds estimate it at 85-90 calories per hour. If you're 150-200 100 per hour. 200+ 100-115 per hour. Now just eat below that. If you spend an hour at the gym or running add 300 or so. Easy peasy. Now tear my idea apart someone..I just thought about it on the fly lol  

So for Srossca that's 2400 calories as your maintenance. So eat 2k on lazy days. If you workout eat 2300-2500. If you have an active job 2500-2800. Dang it, it's getting complicated again. 😂 

Well Diablo... I burn 56-58 kcal per hour lol. Being female, post menopausal, 120#, small framed etc makes me burn less. At 150 it was 65-70ish. I’ve lost 240+ kcal per day! 😭🤦‍♀️😭 Estimates don’t work for me cause I’m anal about math and getting things accurate lol. I’m a procrastinating perfectionist lol. Muscle mass plays a big part in it too as well as how hard you work at the gym. ;)  

oooh, I hadn't thought of that Chris -- literally, burn calories. Sounds painful, but you know what they say: "No pain no gain." 

Yeah, Vocatus, and I have a lot of muscle that needs replacing. With the added protein, I might actually be putting some on. Measurements will tell the tale at the end of the week. 

that's true, LZenn, far more accurately than the scale, if my own experience is any guide. Chris -- I guess I'm just feeling snarky tonight ;) Funny thing, my trainer says the same thing: If it hurts, stop! 

Chris, if I ate my lighter I couldn’t smoke so nope, food only for me lol. As to your ‘?’, I believe they do. Their are weighted vests to help people burn more so it seems logical that a heavier person with more fat would burn more than a skinny person at the same activity level. Just as someone 200# with 15% bf and 85% lbm would burn more than someone 200# with 30% bf and 70% lbm. My thinking isn’t always ‘there’ so I could be way off lol. And... I’m still waiting for my chunk of your metabolism and D’s muscle! Darn usps must’ve lost it.  

Percentage-wise Chris, probably not, but actual numbers, I'd think so since it takes more energy to lift a big arm than a little one. 

I don't know about NEAT being higher while resting, but from what I've read, it simply takes more calories to keep a big person alive than it does a little one. 

actually, yes it does. As a teen, I hovered around the 160-175 range. I got fat-ish (210-220) once I got a car and started having beer and pizza as meals. In the last decade, I've been as lean as 192 pounds and as heavy as 328. I assure you it's harder to breathe just sitting around at 328 than 192. Just 6 months ago, I couldn't even tie my shoes without holding my breath. But back to the more or less energy, easier or harder to breathe, I couldn't sleep on my back because my weight interfered with my breathing. 

I'm nowhere near back to that 192, but compared to the 328 pound me, I feel like superman.