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Resting Calories completely off
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That is insane. You must not move at all or have the metabolism of a 60 year old. Eating three healthy meals is maybe 1500 calories. Granted everyone is different, but 1000 calories is nothing for your height. At 6', 180 lbs, I can lose weight easily eating 2000 calories, but I am fairly active in that I try to walk more often.
Indeed, annoying.
I can cycle to work, be walking and moving around quite a lot all day for 8 hours. and cycle home and I still have to eat way under 2000 calories to hold my weight.
And I'm eating super healthy, fish, chicken, veg, fruit, low fat dairy.
Part of this, is due to dieting, and I think due to eating a little, my body is making the most of what it gets, if you know what I mean.
The only thing I'm not doing would be heavy/vigorous gym type exercise.
Any hints at how I can speed up my metabolism if it's slowed down due to dieting?
Mind you I am doing excellent with my diet. 161 lbs 6ft 5" Not lost 1lb over the past 3 weeks though, despite under 1500 cals a day
That fits with your statement of 2300 would lead to a gain of a pound a week based on what I've read before which is 500 calories above normal intake each day would result in the gain of a pound a week. Not sure of the accuracy of that but it fits your figures well.
Ummm, I am no body weight expert, but I would say at 6'5" 161 lbs you are underweight. At 6' when I weighed 150 lbs friends and family were worried about my health.
Actually.....
Using the BMI scale I am, even now, within the Green healthy weight zone.
I would need to drop another 5 lbs, down to 156 lbs before I was right on the line of being medically underweight on the BMI scale.
Using your own personal numbers of 6ft and 150lbs that is perfect re the BMI scale at just under half way up with healthy range = excellent weight/height.
If I'm honest, I think a lot of this "Oh you look underweight and ill" type comments is a lot due to the way we as a western culture as seeing fatter and fatter people everywhere, and it's skewing our internal mental image of what a healthy look should be.
You go back, say 100 years and you would probably find what now people regard as underweight and skinny would be quite normal, and what we, today see as normal would be viewed as overweight.
In the western world anyway.
I enjoy being on the thin side. I see so many people lose control of their weight, and almost all guys my age have bellies over hanging their belts.
It's so so so easy to get that way unless you look after what you eat.
I would like an Apple watch, or some activity watch for this reason, but if I'm honest, only if its accurate. I am very good when it comes to routine and wishing to meet a daily goal.
i think your idea of calories and food is way off as is most people. Have you weighted your food and actually added up things that way? If you have not then maybe you should a few days to see what it adds up to.
My resting calories aren't being added to the Health app for some reason but active calories are. Anyone got the same problem?
Yes, same here.
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My BMR is currently 1093 and Activity has yesterday's resting calories at 1647.
Actually.....
Using the BMI scale I am, even now, within the Green healthy weight zone.
I would need to drop another 5 lbs, down to 156 lbs before I was right on the line of being medically underweight on the BMI scale.
Using your own personal numbers of 6ft and 150lbs that is perfect re the BMI scale at just under half way up with healthy range = excellent weight/height.
If I'm honest, I think a lot of this "Oh you look underweight and ill" type comments is a lot due to the way we as a western culture as seeing fatter and fatter people everywhere, and it's skewing our internal mental image of what a healthy look should be.
You go back, say 100 years and you would probably find what now people regard as underweight and skinny would be quite normal, and what we, today see as normal would be viewed as overweight.
In the western world anyway.
I enjoy being on the thin side. I see so many people lose control of their weight, and almost all guys my age have bellies over hanging their belts.
It's so so so easy to get that way unless you look after what you eat.
I would like an Apple watch, or some activity watch for this reason, but if I'm honest, only if its accurate. I am very good when it comes to routine and wishing to meet a daily goal.
Holy crap, you're 6'5 and ONLY 161 lbs?!??!? You are probably have literally no muscle mass. I am 5'10 and 165-170 and by no means am I fat.
As far as metabolism goes, I say your metabolism has not slowed down for you at all!!! Well, I don't know how old you are. I say don't do any type of cardio and just start lifting weights.
Well, whilst I know BMI is just for a typical person and not relevant to an athlete/body builder, as they are not your "typical" body.
For your Height and Weight, your BMI is 24.1 And at a BMI of 25 you would just be leaving the healthy range and entering the start of Overweight.
Actually 7 more lbs puts you overweight.
Unless as I say you have a lot of muscle due to your workouts etc.
As for myself, I move around a fair bit all day long, though I sit for a few hours in the evenings, after a full days work and can sit for some time at weekends, though I'm often up and about.
I do not however do any weight work.
I did start years ago, but realized it was a pointless waste of time.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but your muscles will grow, change, develop to the size they need to be, for you to fulfill your long term daily routines.
If I was carrying bricks all day for a living, my muscles would grow to accommodate this activity.
If I was a librarian, sitting down all day, likewise my muscles would change to suit that long term scenario.
I see no real pointing to do heavy weight lifting, and temporarily build muscle in an artificial way, only to at some point stop lifting weights, which of course I would do, after a certain period of time, and then watch my muscles shrink? back down to the size they would naturally be to accommodate my normal day to day lifestyle.
Would you disagree with this scenario I painted above?
BMI although is a good measurement, it is outdated and doesn't account for muscle mass. My doctor told me I was overweight and I laughed in front of his face.
When I was doing a lot of cardio and got my weight to be 155, everyone thought I was sick...
As far as building muscle and losing it? It happens but muscle memory will always be there, so you can still be toned and not look too skinny
Indeed, we can all rubbish BMI, but it's just a guide for a typical person with a typical lifestyle. It's not meant to cover those who are outside the general day to day life activity the bulk of the population have.
Most people don't work out or go to the gym or run marathons, of lift weights, so if you are someone like that, then BMI probably won't apply to you.
If you have a lot of muscle, and are heavy due to that, then of course you are not overweight.
Without seeing you naked from front on and profile (no pics please!) We can't judge YOU!
I have no interest in cardio work, other than my cycle to work, which is not far, as I find it stunningly boring in the extreme.
Muscle building, of short number of reps of work I could deal with easier.
It's just that it's hard to get going, and maintain a routine, esp on your own.
Enthusiasm drops away fast. I have always had the same body shape since a child/teen etc...... I'm just trying not to let myself go as most males do.
Okay, my resting calories are being calculated as 3424, which is egregiously high. My calculated resting metabolic rate (from here: http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/resting-metabolic-rate-calculator.aspx) is 2029 calories, which sounds much more reasonable. Something seems off here.
I'm beginning to think that Apple have just calculated this badly, I'm only taking notice of the activity calories. I think they have to sort this out, anyone taking notice of this as a calorie guide will end up putting on a lot of weight.
I think the activity calories are pretty close to being correct (at least as far as these things are calculated). The resting calories are off.
This isn't a HUGE deal, but with Health Kit integration, there are some apps that grab daily calorie burn and throw those automatically into a calorie counting thing. If the calorie burn is off (and by 1500 calories) that makes a HUGE difference.
At this point, I can manually fix it, but the point of Health Kit is that I shouldn't have to do this stuff manually.
It's obviously a formula (Resting Calories for Thursday and Friday are identical), and obviously, the formula is wrong. I suspect that however it's wrong is close enough to right for people near the norm of body weight that they haven't noticed before, and it's people who are outside the norm that are causing problems.
I just talked to Apple Support and told them, so hopefully it's just a quick adjustment on their part.
I'm not sure if I'm being stupid or not, but what are resting calories. Mine is at around 1700. What does that mean? Surely not how many I've burnt? If it was, I'd never have to exercise!
In Health app it says:
This is an estimate of your basal metabolic rate (BMR) the amount of energy (Calories) your body burns per day when resting in order to carry out basic functions like breathing, digestion and blood circulation. This number is estimated based on your age, sex, height and weight. Additional physical activity burns additional calories over and above Resting Calories (see Active Calories).
going off calculations is never a good way to get a good read on your body. These are estimates and only you can really figure out what your resting calories burned are. Depends on your diet you've been on and activity level and muscle mass. Body's do adapt very fast to things and it could be way lower than what you think it is if your lean. If you've dieted down for a few months its pretty easy to put on fat if you don't know what your doing. Most people don't know how to track their food right and most won't weigh out their food to know for sure what you're actually getting in.
I understand that these are estimates only, but there are absolutely zero estimates that anyone would come up with that would suggest anything that would estimate 3424 resting calories for me.
Going off calculations isn't the best way to get a good read, but if you're going to have an in-app calculation, it should at least be vaguely reasonable. This is not.