VSG Maintenance Group
2350 Calories, you must be joking
Hmm.. I'm chiming in with the recommendation for the RMR test and BodPod or other bodycomp thingie.. I have yet to do it, so don't use me as an example as I'm bad at taking my own advice!
I'm slowly losing at what I'm assuming is closer to 1000-1100 cals average this last month or so, factoring in the high days.. and there's been too many high days recently (every weekend.. ugh) I have access to a facility that does the RMR test, which I will get my butt to here sometime soon as I am very curious.. they hook you up, you chill and breathe.. and supposedly it gives you a decent estimate of your current metabolic rate.. will it be dead-on accurate, no.. not likely.. but, better than my wild guess I suppose. I should do the bodpod too, we shall see.. my impedance scale (I know, not very accurate) tells me 27-29% most days.. I'm aiming for routinely under 23% if I can get it.
The online calcs tell me:1380-something basal, 1660 little/no exercise.. and 1900 for 3x a week! Hrm, I don't quite think so.. Even adjusted down 20% for being a former MO person, 1100 basal and 1300 desk-jobbing it.. I'd hope for somewhere in between, but those lower numbers to me feel more like what reality may just pan out to be.
I'm slowly losing at what I'm assuming is closer to 1000-1100 cals average this last month or so, factoring in the high days.. and there's been too many high days recently (every weekend.. ugh) I have access to a facility that does the RMR test, which I will get my butt to here sometime soon as I am very curious.. they hook you up, you chill and breathe.. and supposedly it gives you a decent estimate of your current metabolic rate.. will it be dead-on accurate, no.. not likely.. but, better than my wild guess I suppose. I should do the bodpod too, we shall see.. my impedance scale (I know, not very accurate) tells me 27-29% most days.. I'm aiming for routinely under 23% if I can get it.
The online calcs tell me:1380-something basal, 1660 little/no exercise.. and 1900 for 3x a week! Hrm, I don't quite think so.. Even adjusted down 20% for being a former MO person, 1100 basal and 1300 desk-jobbing it.. I'd hope for somewhere in between, but those lower numbers to me feel more like what reality may just pan out to be.
The online calculators are only estimates and do not take into account lean muscle mass. I just had my body fat test done by hydrostatic weighing and according to measurements, my BMR is 1393 cal/day, without any exercise figured into it. For the past year, I have been eating this much and more, but recently cut down and my weight went up. Go figure. Hard to know what to trust. It measured my body fat as 18.9%. I have no boobs. LOL!
Another thing about the RMR test, when I asked about it, the results can change based upon your lean muscle mass. Are you weight training? This is the most important thing that can be done to help to improve our metabolism.
The values are subject to change.
gail
Another thing about the RMR test, when I asked about it, the results can change based upon your lean muscle mass. Are you weight training? This is the most important thing that can be done to help to improve our metabolism.
The values are subject to change.
gail
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I had something done called an InBody scan done (I hope I'm getting the name right) anyway it was a machine that you stand on barefoot and grip some handles and it sends an impedence through your body to measure your fat/muscle/bone/water, etc. It could differentiate between the muscle in my left vs. right leg, same for my arms, and my trunk (abdomen.)
I gave me a rmr of 1450. I wish I had done it BEFORE surgery as well to compare.
I often wonder what changes in the WLS patient that allows us to function normally on less calories. If it is all just metabolic changes or if there is more to it. But clearly we can function on way less calories than the average un-altered person.
I gave me a rmr of 1450. I wish I had done it BEFORE surgery as well to compare.
I often wonder what changes in the WLS patient that allows us to function normally on less calories. If it is all just metabolic changes or if there is more to it. But clearly we can function on way less calories than the average un-altered person.
-8lbs lost during the 6 month insurance hoop jumping,
the rest is since surgery.
the rest is since surgery.
I haven't been tested in the bodpod or dunk tank yet, but I plan to. I can eat right around 1000-1200 calories to maintain. For the last several weeks I've hiked between 5.5 and 8.5 miles 4x a week, then walked 3.5 -5 miles the other 3 days of the week. If I go over those calories I gain weight immediately. I figure that I can eat around 1000 without the exercise and 1200 with the exercise. The recommended calories by the online calculators are much higher. I don't look at those because they have never been accurate for me, even prior to WLS.
I'm 61, 5'4" and my range right now is 141-143. I'm trying to shed the next 5 pounds and upped the exercise in the last several weeks from walking a 5K daily to the hiking in the woods. It doesn't seem to make any difference what I do, my body likes maintaining right here. The last time I was under 143 I was in Junior High. My tanita scale said last night that I was 30% Body Fat. I hope that's not right because that would put my Lean Body Mass at around 100 pounds.
I'm 61, 5'4" and my range right now is 141-143. I'm trying to shed the next 5 pounds and upped the exercise in the last several weeks from walking a 5K daily to the hiking in the woods. It doesn't seem to make any difference what I do, my body likes maintaining right here. The last time I was under 143 I was in Junior High. My tanita scale said last night that I was 30% Body Fat. I hope that's not right because that would put my Lean Body Mass at around 100 pounds.
HW: 249 SW: 229 GW: 149 Age: 63 - Body by Sauceda - 12/2011
