cloy wrote:
exxxviii wrote:
I use Fitbit, and it works pretty well for me. I enter everything I eat, but I do not sweat hyper details of precision. The goal is directional, and that truly is the best you can do. Your BMR is a total guess. And, your exercise burn calories are a total guess. They could be off by hundreds of calories. So, if you are off in your intake by a few hundred, it is meaningless. I am currently in a major weight loss track, so I am gunning for daily intake hundreds of calories below estimated burn. Just the act of counting keeps you aware and likely on track. I assume that my burn is grossly overstated, so I try to keep intake consistently low-- at least 1K below daily burn estimates and often 2K. This yields about 2 lbs./week weight loss.
There is no way this is sustainable.
Don't be rediculous. Yes it is. Been there, done that. Lost 55 lbs in 6 months doing exactly that.
As exxxviii, points out...everything is a guess except your bodyweight on the scale...even that has a big error factor in it due to daily hydration fluctuations. So, what looks like 2k deficit really works out to whatever the scale says it is...2 lbs / week = roughly 1000 real calories. But, even THAT is a guess...as the amount of water stored in adipose tissue (and is lost when the fat is burned) changes with the individual (generally this ranges from 3300-3750 calories per pound of fatty-tissue).
I did EXACTLY as exxviii is doing. I assumed I ate more than the counting said...and I assumed I burned less than the calculator predicted. Then I weighed myself EVERY day (still do), and I adjusted my calories to drive a specific weight loss RATE (1.5 - 2 lbs per week). I tracked everything for the entire 6 months, calories consumed/burned, predicted weight loss, actual weight loss (from inception and rolling 14 day averages) including lean and fat mass using the tanita scale, and backed that up with calipers via the local health club.
Heck I even wrote excel forumulas to predict when I would hit my goal weight, and what my BF% would be when I got there...to include the effects of reduced BMR as a result of lower body mass. I even tracked THOSE prediction using 14 day rolling averages.
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Tom_hampton: Feb 26, 19 10:06