BMR + Activity level - cant be right?

At 137lbs, 5'7 female 27, my BMR works out at 1440cals poer day. Which coinsidental enough is excatly 1 cal per minute therefore 60 cals per hour.

What im wonder is the activity meter shows what is burnt during an exercise or activity but should the BMR be included in this. Say i burn 500 cals at the gym in 1 hour, but during that same hour am i additioanl burning my 60 bmr cals, therefore 560 cals that hour?

This seems to be what people are doing just adding all exercise to their BMR to get their daily burn, whihc seems right however.

Lying quietly TV watch was 60 cals per hour, if i were to spend the entire day vegged on the sofa watching TV for 10 hours that would add 600cals to my burn thus me being at 2040cals for the day doing nothing.

It doesnt seem right that if you add every activity you could effectively end up in the 4000s?

Surely The activity burn for that time would include your basic body fuctioning therefore the 60cals i use anhour living should be included in my activity cals?

does that make sense, it does to me but hard to explain

I struggle with the same issue, just higher numbers. You set your activity level to baseline your burn rate. Then you go to the gym and burn 1000 calories.  So if you say that you are moderely or highly active, then you work out, are you doubling your burn?  The one thing that has helped me is investing in a Polar heart rate monitor. You plug in your height, weight, and age first. then when you work out, you set the button on excercise. It calcuates the calories you burn. What you can do is where if for a couple of hours while you're just sitting around. Then you will know what you assumptions you can use.

 

BTW, I love the fact that you put all your pictures out like that. Takes courage and motivation. Congrats......  I just have my picture with my dog when it was a puppy fully clothed of course. 

when calories burnt during exercise are added to the burn meter, the 60 cals/hr burnt by BMR is subtracted from this number. so, tv for example....

60cals (tv) - 60cals (BMR) = 0 change to Burn meter

or, lets look at jogging which is 450cals/hr....

450 (jogging) - 60 (BMR) = 390 cals added to burn meter

does this make sense?

Tigzy thats excately what i though. however i think the majority of people on here are just adding the activity and fogetting at the same time their BMR so they end up with 48 hours in a day. i was a post the other day when someone burnt 4000+ cals she had even added sleeping cals! Thanks makes it a much more useful tool now youve confirmed what i thought.

Sheblardin - i have much better pictures of me with my clothes on, and hate these pictures. i would never allow a photo of me in a bikini normally they are so awlful but guess thats why im sharing them with you all, fear and embarassment motivate me to diet. The white bikini was taken by a sneeky friend last year after 3 months of holidaying and gaining 6lbs, heaviest ive ever been i was so disgusted when i saw it i signed up at the gym and started dieting that day. So go for it put the worst picture you have, none of us know you, and youll be proud when you can add you after shoot.

even if you meticulously add 24 hours worth of exercise and sleep and teeth brushing!!! it will account for the whole lot. it automatically subtracts your BMR from everything you add so you dont even need to do the maths.

if im adding 45 mins of jogging, i log 45 mins of jogging as it appears on the exercise browser. it will take off the 60 automatically so you wont need to mess aroud with cals etc. this thing is pretty smart

ie... if you log a full 24 hours of activity it automatically removes 24 hours of BMR. you wont end up with 48 hours worth of calories

i hope this makes sense

When I go to the gym I do things like 430 calories burned on the elliptical - which is the 400 calories I want, plus the 30 calories to cover the "minutes" I spent on the machine.  That's how I get all my numbers to come out the way I want them.  Like you say - 1 calorie per minute.

As long as you are entering how many minutes you spent on the activity you can't "double count" calories burned.  Luckily for us CC+ does all the calculations!

Good luck on your continued weight loss.