Oh My...IN excess of 4000.....
So, today, or should I say yesterday I actually logged the majority of my movements throughout the day into my activity meter. At the end of the day, without adding everything it said that I burned in excess of 4000 calories yesterday- just doing my everyday mom of 3 routines, grocery shopping, driving the car, washing dishes, making dinner, and some work out time for myself on the elliptical and bike.
You would think I should be a TWIG! The other day I wrote a post about all my docotors being bewildered as to why I am so heavy- and not losing my prego pounds. And this is why....
I logged all my foods and I hit my mark of 1650 (which I increased due to concern I was not eating enough by fellow Calorie Counters) within 12 calories- and I logged EVERTHING, even the ice cream :) - even the polenta with sun dried mushroom cream sauce, even the floretine lasagna bake (Thanks to Rachel Ray) I analyzed all of It, still got a grade B for the day, (I usually get A's) but look at me, I'm still packing the pounds!
AHHH , well I gues I'll keep smiling and at least know that I really can say that I am not LAZY during the day.
here we go, another week!
Hmmm...., so my driving 5 hours a day should not be included?
Using the sedentary thing for me personally is a pointless exercise. Best to add everything in from scratch for a true reflection.
helpless>> how is it possible to gain when you have such a big deficit? i just don't get it.
Your body through evolution has evolved to note that when you are not consuming enough calories in a period of time that there is a food shortage and makes your body hold onto all fat resources at the expense of keeping you from tiring.
When you then eat a large meal, the body still thinks there is a food shortage and stores everything as fat whilst keeping you tired.
Slowly you increase in weight whilst the body waits for the famine to end, adding everything you eat into fat stores.
Think of it this way...
You can't borrow money, but you want a holiday. You have no savings, but an income....
You believe the holiday is $500 and you have 10 weeks to save.
Therefore you note you must save $50 a week.
Through the ten weeks you give up a night out or clothes which makes you miserable, but come 10 weeks later you have $500.
It is only then you find the holiday is actually $400, and you now have an excess $100 which you can lose.
Honestly, all those activities are probably overestimated/underestimated/etc--just know that they aren't accurate. I remember one time I logged everything I did in a day and it brought me to something like 5200. Whatnow!?
I'm going to guess that (as someone else said) you just aren't really creating too much of a deficit because you're overestimating your burn, and that is why you're not losing.
Her BMR is 1800 so she needs to at least hit this number, which she is not. And mamma knows this ;)
Original Post by shandykat:
She may be overestimating how many calories she's burning, but there's no way she's "packing on the pounds" eating 1650 calories or less a day unless she's undereating or underestimating the calorie counts in her foods, which may be the case too. This is something else to look at.
Her BMR is 1800 so she needs to at least hit this number, which she is not. And mamma knows this ;)
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