Can't figure out my calories...

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bluepig1

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Right, how reliable is fitday?
I put in my numbers, and activity level, most seated with some movement (I'm waiting to start my new job so I sit around a fair bit for now) and apparently my body burns 2857 a day.
And I need to drop about 899 cals a day to be skinny by christmas.
Which, I'll do the math for you (or rather let fitday do it for you), means eating 1958 calories a day.

Now, I know I must have eaten that much to get this big, but there is no way I can eat that much now!

I've averaged about 1200-1300 a day.
And I think I've gained!

Where am I going wrong here?

Also Livestrong Daily Plate tells me I need 1600 ish to lose 2lbs a week.

I'm going to assume I'm not getting anywhere because I'm not eating enough?
 
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It's hard to tell from the info you've given. However, if Fitday says you need 1958 and Daily Plate says you need 1600, that's a big difference, so I have to think you are miscalculating something.

Also if you say you are 1200-1300 without losing, I suspect the accuracy of your calorie counting. Maybe you have some kind of hormonal problem but a lot of people are just not very good at estimating their calories.

I am not one of those that think you can eat much less than your maintenance calories without losing weight. If that were true, there would be no world hunger problems, and anorexics would be fat.
 
The difference is on daily plate you pick how much you want to lose a week, but fitday you say when you want to lose it by.
So daily plates calories are to lose 2lb a week, fitday is to lose less than that.

I'm putitng everything into fitday and weighing absolutely everything.
I suspect I have a hormonal problem, I have done for a few years. Thinking PCOS but I don't dare ask my doctor because if it is then I'd rather not know. I know there is stuff they can do for it, but being faced with the possibility or being infertile (or near as damn it) is awful.
Silly I know, but I worry a lot!
I have loads of the symptons and my doctor ummed and arred for ages when I told her about my lack of TOM. But I'm not pregnant, so she said wait and see a little longer. But I haven't been back since.
 
Don't forget that the 1958 calories is for the weight you are now, as you get closer to your goal weight you will readjust and eat less calories, so it may seem high but that's because you weight more.

Also, you really don't think you can eat that much a day? Really?

Also, how long were you eating 1200-1300 calories and gaining weight? Unless you are magic something is wrong with that equation. Long term, yes, that would make you lose weight. Short term you just might not have been doing it long enough to notice a weight loss, just a flux in current weight.
 
If you put the data into Fitday and Daily Plate correctly, and you are sure about your calorie counting, then you just may have a medical problem. I'd get it checked out.
 
Not with the food I am eating, no.
It's all really low calorie, and I'm staying away from white carbs, so I haven't really got anything in that will bump it up without going unhealthy.

I ate a couple of small meals yesterday instead, and had prawns in a chilli sauce and mozzarella as a snack, then my main meal.
I was full and didn't snack at all, so I'm going to stick to four smaller meals a day, because that way I can keep a track on my calories while eating more.
My exercise is going up too, but not by much.
I managed to eat about 1800 yesterday, including eating out for lunch.

I'm certain I put my data in right, I've done it again and again and even calculated it it from scratch using the equation myself. I get slightly different numbers from each place, but it's all saying to eat about 1600-1800 to drop 1 to 2 lb a week.
So I dunno, I might try that alternating thing wher eyou eat the same number of cals over a week, but different numbers each day.
 
redpiggy said:
Not with the food I am eating, no.
It's all really low calorie, and I'm staying away from white carbs, so I haven't really got anything in that will bump it up without going unhealthy...

...I might try that alternating thing wher eyou eat the same number of cals over a week, but different numbers each day.
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There are many foods that are higher calorie without being unhealthy, do not get stuck in that mindset. To many people do really well with weight loss and then get scared to eat anything they didn't eat while losing the weight.

Also, if you can't eat 1800 calories now how are you going to eat more than that if you try to "zigzag" your calories?
 
Kayshiz said:
There are many foods that are higher calorie without being unhealthy, do not get stuck in that mindset. To many people do really well with weight loss and then get scared to eat anything they didn't eat while losing the weight.

Also, if you can't eat 1800 calories now how are you going to eat more than that if you try to "zigzag" your calories?
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Oh don't get me wrong I know there is food out there thats higher cals but still healthy, but we don't have any in. And we're both completely skint so it's a case of eating what we've got in at the moment. He's a student and I'm waiting to start my new job so we don't have money coming in to buy more food really.

I'm going home again today so I'll be eating higher calories today because my mum only buys crap, and when I'm on days where I can have more then I'll probably have some of the ready meals and stuff that we have left over, but I don't want to be having that on other days because its the majority of my calories gone.
 
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