I'm working on team stats for the week but wanted to remind everyone that you are only allowed two (2) freebies. If you miss a WI please do not post a weight after midnight on Monday, you will need to use one of your freebies. I have several people who have missed WI on Monday then posted their weight after the fact instead of a freebie.

Since I'm trying to bust out of my plateau, I don't think it will be a good idea for me to try and get a 1000 daily calorie deficit. For the next couple of weeks I'm going to shoot for burning 500 calories in my daily workouts and eating about 1500 calories (AMR is about 1650), so I'll have an average daily deficit of 650.

How are you coming up with your AMR? I plugged your numbers (used 30 for age) into the web site provided and it came up with the following:

If you reduce your current caloric intake to 1527.5 calories per day you will lose one pound per week without exercise.

Makes one wonder just how accurate these things are. I know the website provided is within 25 calories of both FitDay and LoseIt for me.

I use Jillian's calculation for BMR [ 655 + (4.35 x wt in lbs) + (4.7 x ht in inch) - (4.7 x age) ] which for me comes out to 1537. Then to get the AMR you multiply it by a activity factor (1.1 for sedentary, 1.2 for lightly active, 1.3 for active, etc). I'm desk bound, so I use 1.1 which gives me a AMR of approx 1690 (at this week's weight)

Very interesting.... I did mine and there is a 238 calorie difference, Jillian's being on the low side of what I supposedly need. I know that muscle mass can play an important factor but I would NOT consider my self muscular. Although in your case that might be it.... with your age and the workouts you do my guess is you have a great deal of muscle and your body needs more calories and may be in starvation mode. I would be very curious to know what your true BMI is. Have you ever been professionally tested?

I think I may be in starvation mode to, that is why I'm upping to 1500 calories, and just exercising 500 calories per day. I would say I'm pretty muscular (or dense), as I look like I weigh a lot less than I actually do (I wear a six right now) I have never got my BMI tested, maybe I'll do that sometime.

Take a high calorie couple of days and that should help bust any plateau or stall. Seems to work for me anyway. I do that on weekends every once in awhile and then jump back into my normal calorie days with full intensity during workouts. Although, now I find that I can't really eat more than 1600 to 1800 even when I want to eat more. Ha. So funny in a way.

According to several of the websites we have roughly the same BMI @25 which is at the low end of "overweight". I can tell you that I still have HUGE amounts of fat/rolls on my belly and my thighs are still big. I am mostly in a size 10 with a couple of 8's fitting.

I'm thinking that YOUR body likes being where it is and this "plateau" might actually be your ideal weight, or close to it. The thing you will have to ask your self is why you want to be smaller than a size 6 and IF you could lose another 20 lbs. how on earth are you going to maintain it?

EDITED TO ADD
The maintainers section here on 3FC has some GREAT information regarding goal setting and maintenance.

It does like where it is, I just am not quite happy with it. I don't really want to be smaller than a 6, but I want to be in the 4-6 range, not 6-8. My original goal was 145 instead of 136, and I'm thinking that maybe I need to revert back to that. I need more definition (I'm going to start back up with weights after my vacation), and I would still like to lose some inches off my stomach.

I appreciate all the help and suggestions, and I think I'm going to go ahead and change my goal back to 145. I'm going to try 2 weeks with my new plan and see what happens.

Back from Chicago, but comp is broke. Just stopping to say hey. I didn't gain this weekend. YAY!!!

Joined Planet Fitness today and did a 30-minute workout there after work. The gym workout coupled with my morning workout put me at burning 450 calories in exercise alone today which is awesome. Going to try to put in an extra gym workout 3 days a week and see if it helps my weight loss.

Hi All,
Congrats to our Biggest Loser Luckybusart and the runner ups.

What a weekend, between rain, tornados, and Hot hot HOT weather I don't know what's going to happen next. Everyone is ok, and nothing came very close to us, but it got pretty exciting on Sunday. We had family over for a party for DD's b-day. Everything was planned for outside, a cookout and just beingoutside, the kids were loving running around. it was after supper and we were sitting outside wondering if it was going to rain when the sky opened up and poured. We rushed inside, I stayed out and put some stuff away so I got pretty wet. When it let up my brother and his family left for home. He called us about 5 minutes after he left because he saw a tornado on the way home. It made for an exciting evening anyway.
Monday and today it have been very hot, I don't mind it a lot, but the air conditioner in the car is on the fritz, DH didn't think it's been hot enough to bother getting it fixed before now. All this and TOM. I'm truely blessed this week. I'm sweating off the weight tho, it's not all bad.

Hope everyone has a good week
Bette K

Where is everybody?

Even though I ate more than usual, and all healthy whole foods, I was absolutely starving and exhausted all day yesterday. I ended up eating some banana bread midafternoon because I felt like I was going to zonk out. I'm not sure what was up with that, maybe my body had a hard time adjusting to the healthier food. I'm doing much better today.

I did well yesterday, I was at just over 1700 cals for the day, and went on a 4.5 mile bike ride, and did it the fastest I've done so far.

Today, I'm doing good too, so far. Keeping track of my calories, but may not work out - its so hot here.