Comments on: Project Weight Loss: Week 4

By: Alison Spath

Alison Spath — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:09:31 +0000

Ahh whoops, I misread! And yup, that’s essentially what I do, I just look at it from a different angle, net calories instead of calorie deficit. It works the same way though, I try to keep my net calories at 1500 calories a day (or put the other way, a deficit of 750 calories) to lose around 1.5 pounds a week.

A 900 calorie deficit should be getting you close to 2 lbs lost a week, and it sounds like it’s working for you! Way to go!

By: Devann

Devann — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:14:08 +0000

Not bmi. BMR. The amount of calories you burn just doing basic functions of living. Breathing, blinking, etc…. if you take that # and subtract what you eat and add you exercise calories, that gives you your calorie differentials. Make sense? My bmr is like 1900 or something (sparkpeople does it for me). So on a day I eat 1300 calories and burn 300 calories, it. Would look like this : 1900+300-1300=900. I burned 900 more than what I ate! It works vertically every time for me… of course I look at an average for the week.

By: Alison Spath

Alison Spath — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:43:04 +0000

Hi Devann, no, I don’t compare my net calories with my BMI – I’m not sure what you mean, can you explain? -700/-800 calories daily?

By: Devann

Devann — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:25:54 +0000

The no weight loss was me last week but in a day I was down 2#. I am like you, if it doesn’t go up, I am usually okay. I can usually pinpoint most of the problem too.

Do u ever compare your net calories with your bmr? I do this and track my deficit in calories. Anytime I am in the average range of -700 to -800 calories, I lose weight.

Good luck this week. I am sure you will see that number go down and Yay for the clothes!!!

By: Alison Spath

Alison Spath — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:45:23 +0000

Thanks Jennifer for your encouragement! Sorry your exercise theory didn’t pan out this week, get thee back to the gym!

The banana helps with less sugar, I hope your gang likes them if you try them. Even Maxine eagerly eats these, and that’s saying something!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:26:56 +0000

Whew! I thought you were going to say you used that first, cute pumpkin in your pictures for your muffins. What an adorable smile he has!

I’m right with you this week. My weight hasn’t moved but like you said, it hasn’t gone up either. I didn’t go to the gym this week either so I guess my theory of working out vs not proved me wrong this week. (haha)

You are definitely still losing just by the way your clothes are fitting better. So even though the scale doesn’t show it, good things are happening. That’s a fantastic weight loss since Sept, too. You should be happy!

I’ll have to try that pumpkin recipe. We are all in that “pumpkin” kind of mood, too, and I know the pre-made muffins at the store probably have 6 cups of sugar in them. Seriously. I think one muffin is 650 calories!! No way! So, I’m going to test out this recipe and see what everyone thinks.