I know how you feel! I read everyone every day.. but don't comment as much as I should
I read them both, find this one very valuable but write a lot more over there!
I try to post the big posts like this one from today:
I went to the
Gym yesterday and dropped a
pound today! I did 30 min and only 250
calories, but kept my
heart rate nice and high.
Sasha, I agree I really think that is the key. The bad thing is, that I know this because I weigh everyday (which is bad I know) but what keeps me in line. I have it all on my Wii Fit and log in outside activity, so I can go back and look and see what I did on the days I did extra things.
I also log it in my food journal as well as *other* things like TOM....
I am having an issue with losing hair now. ARG! I read about this as an issue on other forums and am just now experiencing it for the frist time. I've also noticed my hair and nails aren't growing liek weeds right now either. It could be a variety of factors, just wonder if anyone else has this.
Today I am having:
Turkey Stir Fry (Meal 3)
Apple
Turkey Stir Fry (Meal 2)
Apple
Yogurt with Benefibre and Cinn
Cardio/Walking Day Off but I am going to try my 10 min
Pilates set for arms when I get home from work.
Oh... is anyone else wearing or using a
BodyBugg? It is the thing they wear on the
biggest loser to monitor your
calories burned.
I started wearing mine again as I started to ramp up
cardio and walking and I still have a really fast resting metabolisim! My trainer and I were both shocked as on this type of
diet usually cuts resting metabolisim up to 30%!
My resting Metabolisim is 1684. On average, I burn 2000
calories with regular activities and about 2400
calories on the days I work out/walk depending on the effort behind it.
So you can see that if you go with the "calories in/calories out" theory of
weight loss I should lose 3 lbs a week at my current average rate of 2200
calories burned a day and 750 consumed a day. One
pound is 3500
calories. Hmm... it will be interesting to track for the next few weeks and see, as I've always thought there were so many other factors that effect this, such as muscle gain, ect.
Anyway.. long post I know. It is great to see that my metabolisim hasn't fallen too greatly during the past 2 years! (Its dropped about 200 but I also had a REALLY high metabolisim for a female, plus I was 30lbs heavier). Even now, I am buring more than 100
calories more than a person my weight.
If you're bored and want to figure out our own resting metabolisim you can use this (Mine is reported from my
BodyBugg and is higher by almost 200-100
calories than these forumals):
Men: BMR = 66 + (13.7 X wt in kg) + (5 X ht in cm) - (6.8 X age in years)
Women: BMR = 655 + (9.6 X wt in kg) + (1.8 X ht in cm) - (4.7 X age in years)
Note: 1 inch = 2.54 cm.
1
kilogram = 2.2 lbs.
Example:
You are female
You are 30 yrs old
You are 5' 6 " tall (167.6 cm)
You weigh 120 lbs. (54.5
kilos)
Your BMR = 655 + 523 + 302 - 141 = 1339
calories/day
Now that you know your BMR, you can calculate TDEE by multiplying your BMR by your activity multiplier from the chart below
Activity Multiplier
Sedentary = BMR X 1.2 (little or no exercise, desk job)
Lightly active = BMR X 1.375 (light exercise/sports 1-3 days/wk)
Mod. active = BMR X 1.55 (moderate exercise/sports 3-5 days/wk)
Very active = BMR X 1.725 (hard exercise/sports 6-7 days/wk)
Extr. active = BMR X 1.9 (hard daily exercise/sports & physical job or 2X day training, i.e marathon, contest etc.)
Example:
Your BMR is 1339
calories per day
Your activity level is moderately active (work out 3-4 times per week)
Your activity factor is 1.55
Your TDEE = 1.55 X 1339 = 2075
calories/day
Really interesting. 
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