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Originally Posted by Diana3271
Everyone Ok, I'm curious about these Body Buggs, or whatever they are called, that you are using. You say you ate X calories and used X calories, so you have lost .25 pounds. Is this really showing up on the scale every day? I have always been curious about that whole idea. If you over eat, how long does it take to show up on the scale (and your butt )
That's a good question!
when im not retaining water weight due to TOM , or water retention due to muscle soreness, and i'm being "regular" than the calculation pretty much is in the ballpark. and Jendiet nicely put it, it does help people who love number crunching and analysing, keep on track.
let me give you an example of this week. i also dont have a body bugg, so use my pedometer that i wear all day, at my hip to calculate my daily activity calories, then if i do exercise, i use my heart rate monitor. but in the past, i used this website, which gave me rough estimate of calorie burns for particular exercises.
http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc
and then i use my food journal to calculate the calories from food (i have an excel spreadsheet).
eg:
Tuesday:
I ate
1381 calories.
my BMR calories is
1496
(calculated by
http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/)
calories burned through exercise =
570
daily activity calories (from my pedometer) =
711
total Active metabolic rate (my raised BMR) = BMR calories + calories burned through exercise + calories burned through daily activity (pedometer)
{1496+570+711 =
2777)
to calculate calorie deficit= AMR calories - calories eaten .
{2777-1381} = 1406 calorie deficit
calculated pounds lost = 1406/3500= 0.4 lbs.
So tuesday starting weight was 154.4lbs.
so predicted weight for the next day would be 154.4 - 0.4lbs = 154.0lbs.
on wednesday my actual weight was = 153.8lbs. so lost an additional 0.2lbs of water weight with 0.4lbs of fat. (maybe! hehe)
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then yesterday: my calorie deficit was 1518, predicted pounds lost = 0.4lbs
yesterdays weight was 153.8lbs. so predicted weight for today would be 153.3lbs
but today i weighed in at 153.6lbs. so in reality i lost 0.2lbs (less than the predicted 0.4 lbs)
OR you can look at it another way. cause my body lost an extra 0.2lbs on tuesday, it compensated for wednesday weight loss.
so in reality, if we take the calorie deficit over the 2 days. which is = 0.8lbs in total.
starting weight on tuesday was = 154.4lbs. and todays weight is = 153.6lbs = reality loss of 0.8lbs.. which matches the mathetmatical predicted loss (of 0.8lbs (2924 calorie deficit over 2 days).
so in reality, thats why they say to look at your overal calorie deficit for the whole week and your weight loss for the whole week.
as you can see, its in the ballpark.
gives you a rough estimate. and as Jendiet eloquently put it, its not always very accurate, cause of water retention due to TOM, muscle soreness, salty foods etc etc. but definately gives you a rough estimate.
at the end of the day as Jillian Michaels says losing weight is an calorie deficit, its all maths. although its gets abit complicated when you're down to your last 20, 15 or 10lbs. thats why you should then eat your BMR calories and get your calorie deficit through exercise and daily activity, and have to really UP the intensity of your workouts. but not workout for more than 2 hours a day. and take 1-2 days of rest days. and avoid processed foods. and drink 80oz of water. get 8 hours of sleep. but also at the same time, dont sleep more than 9 hours, or less than 7 hours. dont eat after 9pm. stuff like that.
and in relation to how long it takes to see it on the scale. i see it the next day!
its not advisable to weigh yourself everyday cause people get discouraged and your weight during the week will go up and down cause of water retention and losses. but i've detached myself and use it more as a mathematical experiment. so it no longer affects my day. and i just like to monitor it cause i am making a graph and like Jediet said, it helps me to NOT binge, and distracts me, so if im number crunching and analysing, im not tempted to eat X, Y or Z. so whenever i get tempted to go over my calories or binge, i do my energy deficient maths. its like a coping mechanism for me.