Posts by mkeys5000

Yay. I just checked the statistics and 409 people have used the calculator as of 6:00pm today!

No problem my pleasure, I am glad you commented actually.

I would like more people to see this and take advantage of my work before it gets buried in the forums never to be seen again, and your post brought it back to the front. :)

To everyone else, if you like the calculator, please comment so that more people will have a chance to see it and use it.

Original Post by cferrari:

Ok so I've been doing this for awhile (21 pounds GONE!) and I'm down to my last 8 lbs! :)

 

Pounds lost: 21

Days dieting: Since Sept. 17th so... 222 days??! wow really?

Average daily calories eaten: between 1400-1500 i'd say

do I need to put information on lifestyle? i'm a student and workout a lot, like 6 days a week or so. thank you so much for doing this and congrats on your weightloss so far! :)

 Thanks =] This is actually my second time dieting. I started the first time last year and did great I lost 43 pounds.

But before I got all the way to my goal I met my current girlfriend. And I stopped excersizing and we cooked together alot and didn't make very healthy choices. Next thing I knew I had gained back 24 pounds.

 But now we have been together for a while and things are settling down and its easier to make healthier choices and we still cook together but now with calories in mind. And I am almost back where I was when we started dating, and this time I am going to go all the way until my goal, just 13 more pounds.

As for figuring out your burn rates, for best results use the calculator I made: http://www.ignte.com/cc

Without knowing all the details though, it looks like you have an average daily deficit of 331 calories, which equates to .66 pounds of weight loss per week.

If you use the calculator it will help you figure out some additional information like the estimated time to reach your goal.

maybe just make a deal with yourself that every chip, every bite, whatever you wanna break it down to, equals one push up or sit up or whatever excersize.

Thanks I am glad you like it.

The php on this is VERY simple. I did most of the math when declaring the variables, and there is a single If Then statement to figure out if the weight loss rate is healthy or unhealthy.

Original Post by newdays18:

Over 97 days, my average cals have been 1754.  Does it matter that Jan-Feb my average was 1570, then Feb to March and March to April it crept up into the 1800 and 1900s?

 yes that will make a difference, I would do the math using only your most recent calorie intake numbers, and only using the amount of weight you have lost since you started eating that amount.

So if you started eating 1800 calories 1 month ago, use 1800 in your math and only enter in the amount of weight you have lost in the past month.

By the way, I am putting the final touches on a online calculator to do all of this math and more automatically so you may want to just wait, I will post it later tonight.

Yes it is too early to get any numbers of value for you, especially since its your first week and you will have lost alot of water weight. However I did the math to satisfy your curiousity. 3183/day. Try it again in a few weeks to get some real numbers though.

I will put together an online calculator for people soon.

And I am not saying that the Calorie Count tools are useless either. You have to start somewhere and this site has given me the tools the knowledge and the community to get where I am today.

As for 'using the tools with a degree of common sense'. Well yes you are right, and I consider myself to have an abundance of common sense. With that said, sedentary matched my lifestyle perfectly, and on days that I excersized above that description I would enter it seperately in activities.

In order to get CC to show a burn rate equal to what I have actually been burning at, I must set it to "very active" which is not at all a description of my daily life.

As far as wether or not the numbers on the scale are showing fat loss vs muscle loss vs water loss you are right. That is the reason for doing this at 45 days instead of just a week later, to smooth out some of those water numbers and get a more accurate result.

Another consideration is for people who have lost ALOT of weight loss, like 30+ pounds. Is is more useful for them to enter in just their past 6 weeks of weight loss and calorie intake to get a more recent number at their newer weight. (since you burn more calories the heavier you are, we dont want your old higher burn rate numbers tainting the math for your new ones).

Thanks thats all I needed to know, even if I didn't want to hear it:)

I am guessing that CC is subtracting out the number of calories you burn normally in whatever length of time you excersized, and is only adding to your burn meter the additional calories burned on top of what you would have burned sitting down the whole time.

However I would like some confirmation of this from somebody who knows for sure. I like to eat what I burned while excersizing so its important I know how many additional calories I am getting.

Thanks that makes sense now.

So here is what ive got going on, let me know what you think.

Every other night I go down to my association gym, I do a mixture of different excersizes,

1) I start off with 20 sit ups using this fairly comfy sit up bench they have

2) then I do 20 reps of 30 pounds using this weight machine where the weights are stored behind you attached to pullies. You push the bar away from your chest.

3) then I do 20 reps of 20 pounds using the same machine, but pulling down from above me to my lap

then I get on a stationary bike for about 10 minutes to let my abs and arms take a break.

then I repeat steps 1, 2 and 3 and call it a night.

Wow, I guess some parents don't realize that the things they say could very easily be the cause of bad eating behaviors. Not much you can do but try to ignore them and vent on here everyone once in a while I guess.