DESPERATELY needing an answer! RANT RANT

"I'm sure you guys don't want to see what's what every single day." If you are logging on fitday, I believe you can open your log to be viewable by others.  You could post a link to it from your profile if interested parties wanted to view it without spamming the forum.

Are you eating enough???? After 6 weeks with my trainer, eating 1400c, starting at 320 and burning 5000-6000 calories a week, I had only lost 6 lbs.  My trainer did a reassessment and I was supposed to eat (a horrendous) 2900 calories for weight loss, otherwise my body was constantly cannibalizing its muscle.

Just remember, diets don't work, eating to live and exercise do.

 

"burning 5000-6000 calories a week" Typo?  At 320, that's likely a *day* if you are doing heavy exercise. Let us know how 2900 calories works out.  I'm interested to hear.

Bert, Do you really think it's possible to burn 5000-6000 a day?!?!?!?!?  That's a staggering number, especially when we all say that the elliptical is "generous" when it says we burn 800 calories after being on it an hour. What am I misunderstanding here???

From March through June I lost 80 or so pounds and ate 1500 calories a day.  Say 77 days (11 weeks) , 80 pounds lost, so 77/80 = .9625 pounds per day * 3500 calories per pound = 3368.75 calories extra burned per day, plus 1500 calories for what I was eating = 4868.75 average burned *per day*.  Higher at the front end lower at the back end. My BMR is higher so I will burn more, but 5000-6000 calories burned *per week* is a ridiculous number.  I don't know height, but take your basic web BMR calculation and throw in 320 pounds, 5 foot 5 inches and 30 years old and its 2207 calories *a day* for a woman * 7 = 15449 calories *a week*.  And that's not counting any exercise at all.

I truly wish I knew more about this, or better yet, understood half of it.  Why does weight loss have to be so ridiculously difficult? For me my BMR is 12,570 a week without exercising.  So on the average I workout 4-5 days a week.  According to my calorie tracker I am good for perhaps 1,000calories a day extra in exercise.  So that's another 5,000 calories a week.  So I burn 17,750 calories a week.  So by rights if I am eating 1500 a day (which is high for me) for a total of 10,500 a week and I am burning 17,750 then I am burning more calories than I am taking in by 7,250.  So if 3500 calories is a pound by this calculation I am supposed to lose 2 pounds a week.  Um, that's not happening. LOL So if you'd burn calories just laying around doing nothing shouldn't that number be calculated on levels of lifestyle, like sedentary, moderatly active, very active, etc? Still confused.  Bottom line, keep on keeping on.

Naturally the web calculators and the counters on the machines are just estimates.  You can, however, get a more realistic number which you could use to tailor your diet and exercise.  If you accurately account for the calories you eat, and you know the amount you lose or gain over a period of time, you can just do something like what I did in my last post.  Whatever the web calculators and exercise machines say, I know that for that period of time I burned an average of 4800 calories a day because I know what I ate.  So I can use that to make conclusions about what I can do with my diet and exercise.  For example, I could comfortably increase my calories eaten per day by 1000 or so and still expect to lose weight.  It would be interesting to me to cut out the exercise for a period of time so that I could calculate how much that is adding to my total burned per day, but my desire to continue losing at a faster rate overrides my interest!  Maybe someday when I am at a lower weight.

keep in mind that there are other things involved in weight loss that may be different for you than others including gender and starting weight. this is probably the only arena where i wish i was a man (but not really).

Which is why you calculate it based on your own observed results.  Whatever wild factors pertain to your body will be contained in the numbers you calculate.

Yes, if you include what you burn for just existing, e.g. your BMR. So, if you're BMR is 2500 and you were to burn 2500 from exercise, yes, you could burn 5k a day, bit you'd have to be eating a ____load to make it healthy.