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Originally Posted by JayEll
There are ways to medically test someone's resting metabolic rate and basal metabolic rate. They are really just snapshots of a particular point in time. There are also ways to estimate these based on age, gender, and size--but often people who are obese or have been obese have lower metabolic rates than those who have never been obese.
The only way to get some kind of handle on it is trial and error. FitDay will give you an estimate of your daily calorie burn, but most people on 3FC have found that it reads high. So, I've set FitDay for essentially totally sedentary, and that seems to work. (I add exercise that I do, but not things like daily housework.) And then I try to meet the calorie deficit that will bring about weight loss, but without going below 1200 on average. Sometimes that means I'll lose slower than I'd like, but that's just the way it is!
Good luck!
Jay
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Oh, I fully understand all that. But testing ain't gonna happen. Trial and error - yeah, I do that, but it is still a very gray area.
