Try this--http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/calorie-calculator/NU00598
Mine makes perfect sense. Amy, with a educated guess on your exercise (I picked the moderate given your gym trips, it says you should eat 1868 per day to maintain your 205. I also said you were 5'8". I just know you're A LOT taller than me :^)
My input--27, 5'2" 163 with moderate acticity for 3 hours per week needs 1666 calories per day to maintain. Which means I am losing because I am only eating 1200-1300 per day. So when I finally reach that coveted 130 I dream of, I'll have to maintain my 30 mintues of moderate exercise 6 days a week and stay under 1500 calories.
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How did you get the 1868? I got 2404. I am 5'8" I also put moderate for my activity levels. I put in I was active fo 12 hours a week (figuring the gym and the DC).
Wow, that does seem a lot more accurate! It told me that to maintain, I need to take in 1693 calories per day, which is right in line with what I estimated.
If I get no exercise at all in a week, I can only have 1445 calories per day! That doesn't seem like much. If I exercise vigorously 3 hours a week, then I can take in up to 1654 calories. Of course these don't include the nursing calories, so if I take in that many calories I should lose weight. This is a great calculator -- thanks, Julie! I'll add it to the official links list.
In my calculation I figured 6-30 minute moderate sessions a week = 3 hours-->your gym time. And I had your height right. Even if I got your age wrong I'd have to be off by a number of years before it made a difference. The DC is light activity. It's a lot of lifting, but I know the three years I spent there never really raised my heart rate for any significant length of time.
WOW!!! I just surfed the Mayo site on the Food & Nutrition link at the top of the calorie calculator and this website is LOADED with good information. I can't wait to print some of the pages for reference. For instance, I'm always low on fiber, but if I eat a pear instead of grapes as my afternoon fruit snack, I increase my fiber to 5.1 grams just from the pear.
Also--it flat out states that if you are female and your current weight is less than 250 lbs your target intake should be 1200 calories to lose weight. A man gets 1400 a day for the same weight classification.
OK - Using all of this - if I am consuming 1800 calories a day - 1660 rounded up to be 1800 - burning 300 at the gym I should still be losing. I am not. This is stupid. Bulimia is looking more and more appealing - and I don't know why it is necessary for me to lose weight or quit smoking anyway. I have no NEED to lengthen my life - and with my luck I will out live you all anyway - and then just be, old, poor and alone for longer. Yeah - I am not seeing the logic in maintaining my health.
Where are you getting 1660 from? And how does that round up to 1800?
Julie's calculation already included the gym time, didn't it?--that 1868 is what you need to maintain your weight assuming already that you're exercising 3 hours a week. So you either need to cut to 1368 calories a day and keep doing the gym 3 hours a week, or do some combination of calorie cutting and increased exercise. And remember my original point from yesterday--one day of overeating in a week translates to two or more days of setting back your diet because first you have to get back to where you were, and then you have to lose from there. I also don't know if what you're doing at the gym counts as moderate or vigorous. I'd say the cross trainer is more vigorous.
Give it a try--if you're eating 1800 calories a day and exercising three hours a week and not losing weight and I'm eating 1300 calories a day and exercising three hours a week and am losing weight (when I stick to it), try the 1300 calories for a few weeks and see what happens. Or at least try 1500 calories. Or cut 100 calories a day for a week, then another 100 calories a day, etc. until you start seeing some change.
Tell you what--I'll try sushi, which I think sounds like the most disgusting food in the world and contains food I can't stand and the smell makes me gag, if you'll try a 1300 to 1500 calorie diet for two weeks. That way we'll both be unhappy.
Screw the living longer thing--I want to lose weight so Claire won't hang onto my belly fat and wubble it around. That and I loathe how I look in a bathing suit.
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