Burn Meter Question...

At the top of the box where it has the word "estimate"... is that how many calories I should burn a day??? When I log on early the bottom number is already 500 something...  Sorry I am slow...... not quite understanding the whole burn meter thing. Could someone explain it .... Burn Meters For Dummies...LOL!

The Eat Meter represents the number of calories you have logged at the present time. As long as you keep your food log updated, the Eat Meter will give you a precise and graphical overview of how close you are to your daily calorie allowance. The allowance is pre-set based on your demographic information and dietary goals that you provided us with, but it can be manually overwritten in Account Settings.

The Burn Meter shows you the number of calories that your body burns as the day goes on. The total estimate is derived from your demographic information and activity level you provided us with.

These two meters make dieting easy! All you need to do is pay attention to the following two readouts:

• Total daily intake
  Clearly, it is your goal to stay within the daily calorie allowance, so be careful when the Eat Meter starts approaching the dotted line - that would be a good time to stop eating for the day (assuming you kept the allowance at its default value or higher).


• Pace of food intake
  Try to keep the number of calories consumed the same or lower than the number of calories burned at any instant of the day. In other words, have for breakfast about as much as you have burned since midnight, and continue with this approach throughout the rest of the day. You should have the dinner at about the time when your Burn Meter reaches the number of calories of your daily allowance. At that point, eat until your Eat Meter reaches its dotted line, and then stop.

The Total Estimate in the Burn Meter Icon is what you burn per day based on the data you entered. I set my activity level to sedentary and log activities. The key is to eat less than the total burn estimate by 500 to 700 calories per day.  Your weight drops by one pound for every 3500 calories deficit. My journal has the specifics on how the burn meter is calculated.

Never go below 1200 calories.

Jeff