Burn Meter at 1400 calories

HELP!!!!!

I'm two pounds from my goal weight and I want to move towards maintenance. Since I have a sedentary office job I listed my activity as such although I have been working out three times a week in order to loose weight. Well, the Burn Meter claims that I need 1400 calories/day to maintain my weight. THAT IS STARVATION IN MY BOOK. Does anyone have any suggestions on how maintenance is supposed to work?

If you have been sedentary, and now are exercising 3 times a week... are you considering dumping the exercise? It is imperative you continue to exercise for your heart and lungs, to name just a couple.  If you quit exercising and manage to keep the same weight you are now, chances are you will simply achieve "skinny flab" rather than "fat flab."

I have not reached my goal, and at the rate I am losing might never reach it, but, the benefits I have gained from exercise are worth ALL THE EFFORT. For starters, I can walk 3 times further than I could 3 months ago, and I have only lost 6-8 pounds. 

If you continue to exercise, you will have no trouble associated with eating 1800 calories.

Fransen...

You are so right.  I can't give up exercising.  It is amazing how my body has more stamina and endurance.  Six months ago I couldn't handle 1 mile on the treadmill and now I can do 5 miles in 1 hours while singing to my favorite songs.  Being healthy is more important than calorie counting.

Thanks for reminding me... Good luck with your workouts.  Slowly that weight does start to come off.

Tee

There is no way your burn meter is at 1400 and you're working out 3 times a week. My burn meter is at 1700, on non workout days and when I add my workout on those days it goes up to about 2300.

Are you adding your workouts? if so on your workout days your burn meter should be higher than on non workout days.

I had the same problem initially. I also listed my activity level at sedentary because of my job (I sit all day), but working out three time a week is at least light activity, if not moderate (depending on the intensity of your worout), in my book. Maybe lower your intake on days you don't work out and eat more calories the days that you do.

Hope this helps.

KC

KC,

You are right.  My calculations were without the workouts.  On work out days they do go up to 1800 or more depending on the intensity and length of the workout.

Thank

chahinet, I recommend you use a HRM for your workouts, and also for at least three full days when you are just having a very normal day. This will give you your normal daily HR/calories.  I put myself down as sedentary and do treadmill/cardio 5 - 6 times a week. I was amazed to see that if I deducted the 300 - 325 for my treadmill, I still had 800 calories in only 8 hours. that is 100 an hour, not the 66.66  CC tells me I use.

CC's formulaes are just that: Formulaes.  Weight loss is not mathematics, and the forumla will not work the same every single time.  While I don't mind using CC's figures for sleep time, I will use the average I obtained over 3 days of 100 an hour for 8 hours of my day and 75 calories per hour for TV, Computer time.  That puts me at close to 2000 per day.

hmmmm... having done that math, I am upping my calorie goal to lose weight to 1400 a day.