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Bloc1

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I've been trying to eat about 6 or 7 meals a day.

Usually mourning (7:00) = Bran muffin or Cereal bar + Juice of some sort.
Which comes out to be around 250 - 300 calories.

Then around 10:00 I eat some sort of fruit & cereal bar: 110 - 150 calories.

Around 1:00 I've been eating this chicken pita bread thing which is around 300 calories.

Then after that If I'm hungry I eat an apple or something which equal less than 100 calories.

The problem is though at most I am eating only 850 - 900 calories. Is that not enough? Or is it good? I hear normal calorie in take in like 1500. :/
 
you def. need to eat more cals than that.1500 is a good place to start.keep track of your cals and everything you put in your mouth for a couple of days. it'll help you have a better understanding of where your cals are going. i also notice that your running very high in carbs and exept for the chicken i didnt notice any protein.
breakfast id do-oatmeal w/ egg whites or an egg white omelet(w/ 1 or 2 eggs added in) a fruit instead of juice juice is high in cals(in sugars and low in fibre)
lunch is pretty good as long as theres not some high fat sauce on the pita
snacks fruit and cereal bar is ok, just a fruit for the other one i would add prot. here apple and pb or some cottage cheese
supper id do some more prot. with salad or something along the lines of that
oh and drink lots of water ;)
 
To loose a lb of fat a week you need to create a calorie deficit of 3500 cals(per week) thats 500 cals a day.....you burn 1800 cals a day just being you no extra stuff but normal daily life. if you eat 1500 cals in your day and do some exercise to burn an extra 200 cals you would have your 500 cal deficit for the day. do that for the week and you would have your 1lb of weight loss at the end of the week. but that means beeing careful to calculate all the cals that go in. if you over do it one day you need to compensate the next. at first though we tend to loose more but it evens out after a while. food math aint it fun ;)
 
lol how do you know he burns EXACTLY 1800 cals, depends on too many things for you to know sorry lol(have to point out everything you say wrong, your getting good, a little too good:(). try a certain calorie amount like 1800 wait a couple weeks and if you lose about a pound or two a week then stick with it, just adjust as you need til you get 1-2 lbs a week.
 
I think for each pound of lean mass (muscle + bone) you loose like 13 calories a day. So maybe 1800 is an average. If you knew how many pounds of fat or lean mass you had you could figure it out exactly.

If you eat 1500 calories a day and burn 600 (+the 1800) you have a -800 calorie deficit. 800 x 7 (days in a week) = 5600 and 5600/3100 (3100 is a pound I think, correct me if I'm wrong) = 1.8. About 2 pounds. So if you want to loose 2 pounds a week you should at least burn 600 calories through exercise, right?
 
Whoa Errtu **my boot your butt** ;) it was an example i have no idea what Bloc's resting metabolic rate is, i was just trying to explain the basics behind the math. and yeah im way better than you now :p

If you ate 1500 cals a day and burned 600 through exercise using 1800 cals as an example ;) you would have a deficit of 900 cals (1500-1800=300+600=900) 900 x's 7 assuming you do this every day=7200 cals a week and in theory would give you your 2lbs weight loss
(i always heard it was 3500 cals=1lb)
but see 1800 is your(example) rmr and does not include any activity like getting up out of bed and going about the rest of your day.
 
hi there.
My question in relation to calorie counting is this:
if your RMR is 1500.
And you eat 1000 calories.
Go to the gym and burn off 400 calories a day.

Does the RMR keep going down ?
Are you certain of burning (1500-1000+400) 900 calories a day ?
Does it diminish over time ?

For instance if you were 150 pounds and burned off 6300 calories in one week. you'd be approximately be 148 pounds...
Your RMR would fall to compensate for the lack of weight, but would it fall sharply because of the huge deficit in calories or the decline in weight?
 
If you take two identical people who weigh the exact same with the same body composition, exercise habits and nutritional plan, they would still more than likely have differing RMR rates and would lose or gain weight at different rates.

If you create an extreme caloric deficit then over time your body will naturally slow its metabolism to make up for this lack in calories. It’s really a simple defense mechanism.

The important thing to remember is that any formula you come across should just be used as an estimate or a starting point. So, use these formulas and see how your body reacts. Give it about a month or so – it takes about that long for your body to adapt to any new nutritional program. Once you have an idea of how your body is reacting then you can make appropriate changes based on your personal metabolic needs.

I hope this helps.

By the way, Smiley has been giving some really great advice
 
Very true Fitness Trainer,a bmr is only a guide line, and thank you :)

you probably would need to compensate for the weight loss yes. although i dunno if your matabolic rate would be going down,if you kept exercise and diet consitant and gained some lean body mass, your bmr would in fact probably be higher. :) but in life there are no certainties lol :p
 
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