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04-16-07, 02:26 PM
This probably comes up a lot here, sorry for the new thread if it's too redundant, but I have been continuing to poke around, and found that fitday thinks I use 2600 kcal/day for BMR+'lifestyle', while my wife's nutrition text says that for my age and height, a person w/ bmi=22.5 (I'm around bmi=24) would use 3000 kcal/day (maybe it's assuming that maintaining that bmi implies a certain level of activity?). Anyway, both of those seem insanely high to me. My wife hasn't looked at fitday yet, but the text thinks she is using 2400 kcal/day to break even and that is very far above her estimate of what she can eat and avoid gaining weight, never mind losing it (weight watchers allows her ~1100 kcal/day to lose weight).
I know there is a *lot* of underestimating of what we eat, but it's scary to think that we could be underestimating what we eat (when not losing weight) to cancel or even exceed those levels of baseline calorie requirements. So we naturally assume the estimates must be off.
I know there is a *lot* of underestimating of what we eat, but it's scary to think that we could be underestimating what we eat (when not losing weight) to cancel or even exceed those levels of baseline calorie requirements. So we naturally assume the estimates must be off.