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Custom BMR Calculation
Entered information: 82 year old male, 68 inches tall, weighing 191 pounds.


From the information that you entered, you'd like to weigh 185 lbs.


Harris-Benedict Formula
There are a few different methods to calculating yourbasal metabolic rate (BMR). One of the most popular, developed in the early 1900's is called the Harris-Benedict formula. Based on this formula, your current BMR is 1566 calories.


Katch-McArdle Forumla
The numbers above are fairly accurate, however they don't take into account your lean body mass. A more accurate formula that does take your lean body mass into account is the Katch-McArdle formula. Since many of us have scales that will tell us our current body fat, this formula may yield more accurate results. Based on the information you provided, body fat percentage of ?%, you have a lean body mass of 191 lbs., and your BMR is 2245 calories.


How Many Calories Should I Eat?
Based on your goal weight, the following chart was generated. The chart shows the number of calories that you should eat on a daily basis to reach your goal weight. At Fat 2 Fit Tools we advocate eating like the thin, healthy person that you want to become. The calorie levels you see in the chart are not extreme, but they do create that all important caloric deficit that is required to get you to your goal weight in a safe manner. Once you reach your goal weight, you will continue eating the same number of calories for the rest of your life to maintain that weight. You'll never be on a diet again.


Based on how much activity you do on an average day, the calories in the right column will be the number of calories that you will be able to eat at your goal weight. If you start eating those calories right now (eating like the thinner you), you will eventually become that thinner person. As you get closer to your goal weight, your weight loss will start to slow down. It is OK to eat a few hundred calories less per day (200-300) to speed up your weight loss at this point.


Activity Level Daily Calories
Sedentary (little or no exercise, desk job) 1835
Lightly Active (light exercise/sports 1-3 days/wk) 2102
Moderately Active (moderate exercise/sports 3-5 days/wk) 2370
Very Active (hard exercise/sports 6-7 days/wk) 2638
Extremely Active (hard daily exercise/sports & physical job or 2X day training, i.e marathon, contest etc.) 2905
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Check it out and then give me your opinion... I'm sedentary, little activity, little to no exercise. I should weigh about 158 to 160 or somewhere in that range but I'm trying to lose weight in small increments. I've lost 35 pounds the past year.. Now i want to lose six or seven more pounds, have a couple of beers then re-evaluate. maybe lose another eight or ten pounds. What do you think?
 

According to the above I'm very active. Meaning I have trouble finding time to sit down in the course of the day. Up to ten miles of walking at work then another 3 or 4 walking the pups at night. Oh and I never liked beer.
 
Nancy, I weigh ever friggin morning. It was just reported on the news the other day, peope who weigh every day lose more weight than those who weigh only say, once a week. Every day weighers are more motivated, according to this study. How are you doing? Have you lost all the weight you wanted? Based on what I have seen of you, you already looked like a skinny mini. I suppose it is fair to say I am down two sizes in my britches and even now I need a good belt to keep my jeans up properly. I don't drink beer either. That was just an expression I'm going to take a break when I reach that point. I would however drink a vodka or a gin tonic just to be sociable.
 

drifter said:
Here's what it said.

Custom BMR Calculation
Entered information: 82 year old male, 68 inches tall, weighing 191 pounds.


From the information that you entered, you'd like to weigh 185 lbs.


Harris-Benedict Formula
There are a few different methods to calculating yourbasal metabolic rate (BMR). One of the most popular, developed in the early 1900's is called the Harris-Benedict formula. Based on this formula, your current BMR is 1566 calories.


Katch-McArdle Forumla
The numbers above are fairly accurate, however they don't take into account your lean body mass. A more accurate formula that does take your lean body mass into account is the Katch-McArdle formula. Since many of us have scales that will tell us our current body fat, this formula may yield more accurate results. Based on the information you provided, body fat percentage of ?%, you have a lean body mass of 191 lbs., and your BMR is 2245 calories.


How Many Calories Should I Eat?
Based on your goal weight, the following chart was generated. The chart shows the number of calories that you should eat on a daily basis to reach your goal weight. At Fat 2 Fit Tools we advocate eating like the thin, healthy person that you want to become. The calorie levels you see in the chart are not extreme, but they do create that all important caloric deficit that is required to get you to your goal weight in a safe manner. Once you reach your goal weight, you will continue eating the same number of calories for the rest of your life to maintain that weight. You'll never be on a diet again.


Based on how much activity you do on an average day, the calories in the right column will be the number of calories that you will be able to eat at your goal weight. If you start eating those calories right now (eating like the thinner you), you will eventually become that thinner person. As you get closer to your goal weight, your weight loss will start to slow down. It is OK to eat a few hundred calories less per day (200-300) to speed up your weight loss at this point.


Activity Level Daily Calories
Sedentary (little or no exercise, desk job) 1835
Lightly Active (light exercise/sports 1-3 days/wk) 2102
Moderately Active (moderate exercise/sports 3-5 days/wk) 2370
Very Active (hard exercise/sports 6-7 days/wk) 2638
Extremely Active (hard daily exercise/sports & physical job or 2X day training, i.e marathon, contest etc.) 2905
If you have any questions on what you've read here, please contact us.


Check it out and then give me your opinion... I'm sedentary, little activity, little to no exercise. I should weigh about 158 to 160 or somewhere in that range but I'm trying to lose weight in small increments. I've lost 35 pounds the past year.. Now i want to lose six or seven more pounds, have a couple of beers then re-evaluate. maybe lose another eight or ten pounds. What do you think?
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Ok Drifter,

If you are sedentary you are not building muscle so I am thinking less calories of course, but for your height, weight age, is your BMR 1835, if I'm reading that right? If so, that BMR is correct for intake of calories. Basic Metabolic Rate is the amount they would give you in an IV, or if you were bed ridden to keep you alive. This is my understanding of the whole "weight/loss" or gain concept. I may or may not be right, but it has worked for me to eat my BMR plus add on food if I've burned off a lot of calories. The idea is to hit those fat-stores, not burn up lean muscle mass, which is usually what happens when folks don't eat enough, like anorexia is an extreme example.

Usually a person with anorexia has none or little muscle, just skin and bone. Also the folks in poor countries with too little to eat, and nourish their bodies. Just my take, again, on the information I have studied since 2009. I'm no expert, I just read, and try things out. It's taken me since 2009 to finally find what really works in burning fat, and gaining muscle (tone) which was my goal. Denise
 
NancyNGA said:
Drifter, do you still only weigh in once a week? If so, maybe Thursday or Friday you ate an unusually large amount of salt? Meals at restaurants seem to have a lot of salt. Tomato sauce is really bad. You are still doing really well.
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Right Nancy, and doesn't the salt make us retain water?
 
I went off the reservation again and had biscuits and gravy and fried bacon, and coffee with half and half. I even saved back one biscuit for homemade wild plum jelly.
 
drifter said:
I went off the reservation again and had biscuits and gravy and fried bacon, and coffee with half and half. I even saved back one biscuit for homemade wild plum jelly.
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That sounds good Drifter, I ate "fast-food" twice this week, lol;) I think I mentioned I eat regular, balanced meals most of the time, but I don't deny myself goodies. I'm just not "addicted" like I used to be;) Have a great day!! denise
 
Denise, it wasn't even fast food for us except sometimes on the road to our next destination. It was craft beers. Didn't have many sweets which is a big deal for me. We had soooo many great meals! I had lobster twice. Steak, Mexican, chicken salads, fries/chips, even had a really good meatloaf at an Irish pub. Oh, and did I mention beer? IPAs, lagers, porters, brown beers, other ales.
 
Oh well, when we know what it takes to burn it off, no worries;) The "menu" sounds wonderful, and I would have enjoyed myself as well;) No guilt, or is that, screw guilt, LOL!
 
Weigh-In Day:

No Gain, no loss.
Pounds to Goal - 7
Average Daily Calories - 1250
Comment: I thought I had come upon a bump in the road.
Looks like I may have hit a brick wall.
 
Good to hear from you Amerscot. It sounds like you are having fun and are not starving. This country has a lot to offer in case you've forgotten, so enjoy.
 
Well, who knows what'll work Jim. I'll try to cut the ice cubes in my vodka tonic and see how that goes.
 
I'm still a little heavy but I have dropped from a size 44 to a 42 to a 40 and, and, I just crawled into a pair of size 38 wrangler jeans. I haven't had on a pair of 38 jeans in, well I can't remember how many years, maybe since we came home from Viet Nam or I bought that Chevrolet Nova. Anyway I'm typing with one hand and patting myself on the back with the other.
 
Well done Drifter! Jim, you're tough! I couldn't give up ice in a G & T!

I behaved yesterday. Ate healthy only all day and no beer.
 
I am dieting and thinking about it.


Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.


You can find your way across country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.


In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.


If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.


The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.


I don’t eat salmon because I identify too much with spawning, thrashing around, and death.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.








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Jim Easton, Covert Bailey, George
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Weigh- In Day:
Weight Gain or Loss - Minus 2.5 lb.
Total Weight Lost - - 11.5 lb.
Weight To Goal - - 4.5 lb.
Avg. Daily Calorie Count - 1394
Comment: I think I can see the light at the end of
the tunnel, still shedding each pound is hard to do.
 
Ameriscot, it sounds like you're enjoying your visit and sure you'll get things under control when your back home. :cheers: Nwlady, nice to see you here and taking good care of yourself! Drifter, shedding each pound is very hard to do for sure, congratulations on doing so well, you deserve to see that light at the end of the tunnel. :love_heart:

I've been hold steady, I think I lost a couple of pounds while out camping and hiking around everyday, usually around 3+ miles. Of course had some ice cream from Baskin Robbins this week, but tried to limit my intake a bit. BTW, I finally fit into the new pair of jeans I bought a couple of years ago, it's the same size as my old ones I've been wearing, but I couldn't button them at all, then when I could they pinched so bad my muffin top had a muffin top. :eek: This morning success, now to see if they still fit me next week. :rolleyes:

Wishing you all a healthy week ahead! :eek:nthego:

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