I do use the Fitday activity tab and I probably get to the same approach but I think how I decided on the approach was a little simpler. Of the two, it's the more conservative number, anyhow. As you know, 500-600 calories is a pretty big margin of error.īut if you got the results you got using the non-FitDay calculator, I think I'll be doing the same. In the past, that's always been my MO as well, though my anal retentive side could never really square the widely varying results I got from different online calculators. For maintenance, and performance, it seems that I need more than it recommends. A lot of days, however, if I don't eat 3600 - 4000 calories I don't recover well.īottom line - the BMR calculations minus 1000 calories worked for weight loss. With that said, the BMR calculations would have me eating approximately 3300 calories a day. Now that I am at a weight that I like (I hover between 195 and 198), I am Cf'ing 5 times a week, and chasing performance, and am loving it. Too much working out made me too hungry, and it was too easy to overeat therefore not losing weight which would ultimately hinder performance. I lost 35 pounds doing this.ĭuring that time I was CF'ing 2 - 3 times a week. I then cut 1000 calories per day off of that. When dropping weight, I used the BMR calculations with the 1.55 multiplier as well. After I hit that goal, I'll be back chasing performance. well, that and I don't want to buy a new swimsuit this summer. I'm trying to drop another 2 inches off my waist, for purely aesthetic reasons. However, the winter and early spring were a nutritional hell-hole I'm still trying to dig myself out of (16% BF, according to the Zone calculation). I really like Fitday's nutrition pages, and am thinking it would be great to use it a bit more. It's kind of a big difference, so I'm wondering what others' experience has been, in terms of acccuracy. The other site gives me 3000 & change (but that's just an average using the 1.55 activity factor). Using the "Mostly Seated With Some Movement" option, Fitday is telling me that I burned 3600 calories today (including a 10 min jump rope warm up + the CFWU & WOD). ![]() I am wondering if anybody's used Fitday to monitor their activity/caloric intake, vis a vis trying to take off those last few pounds of fat.ĭoing the BMR calculations, and using the Harris-Benedict Equation (WFS - ) at an activity factor of 1.55 yields a lower BMR than what Fitday gives, ostensibly using the same equation.
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