BMR and Nutrition App

Today I started using a tracker for my food and it is like a 1.99 or free app (sorry I can’t remember). I remember I used this app when I started this change a year ago (and failed because I quit even though I was losing weight). The app was great and then I decided to join WW and paid for the service and for some reason wasn’t keeping it together. I like the app because you can use the WW point plus system or the old WW point system or just track calories. The app is called Nutrition ok that was lame not to remember the price so I went and looked it up again and it flashed $.99 I tell you it helped me out a lot.  Well I thought I may take a calorie type approach to this new journey and see how it works out instead of a point system. The thing is I don’t what my calorie intake should be to lose the weight minus that I know I better not go below 1200 calories as a woman as I have read and friends have told me as well. I started to read about something called a BMR. A BMR basically says the amount of calories you need on a daily basis to maintain your weight and all you did was lay in bed type thing. I went to few sites so let me share some information.  My BMR is 2070.2 (5’5 female weighing 294lbs), not I must say I have been to a few site and I get different numbers so that caused a little frustration another site gave me a BMR of 2484 ( I found 3 sites that gave me this number so I am sticking to that number). This number again is based off my stats and little to no exercise vs the other of 2070.2 was sleeping all day.  Now you might be thinking that is a lot of calories and you are right so I found a guy that posted how we would determine the amount of calories we needed to lose weight. He provided this example: think it's important to point out that these numbers are to MAINTAIN your current weight. To lose weight you'd need to subtract the amount of pounds from that number. So for example to lose 2 lbs a week=7000 cal. So take the number they give you, multiply by 7 (7 days a week) subtract 7000 (if you want to lose 2 lbs a week) and divide by 7 to ge the total per day. You'll find that total makes a lot more sense.

I decided I need to try to figure this out so here goes 2484*7 (days in a week) = 17388

17388-7000 (2lbs a week projected weight loss) = 10388

10388/7(days in a week) 1484 (total amount of calories to intake from my current amount to lose 2lbs a week with little to no exercise)

Don’t get me wrong I will exercise but I figure icing on the cake if I figure this out with little to no exercise that I really can make sure I lose the 2lbs a week. Now I have not figured out what my carb, fat, protein, sugar intake should be since this app also lets me adjust these measures as well, even sodium.

Today I had no problem tracking breakfast, snack, and lunch. Now for lunch I am basically making some stuff up to make the calories I think I am eating. This is when making your own food can cause an issue. Breakfast was 2 slices of classic white bread, 2 slices of bacon, 2 scrambled eggs, and a cup of coffee with flavored creamer. I can drink coffee with no sugar because the powder creamer has sugar already.  Snack was a cup of fruit (cantaloupe, a few grapes and strawberries) bottle of water, then for lunch was a Glucerna hunger smart shake. Dinner was a large salad made with tomatoes, egg, chicken and turkey sandwich meat, and avocado and ranch dressing. Plus a skinny cow wafer thing that is a 110 calories ( the item is in the pantry and I am not near it, I will tell you later the name of the skinny cow product) My is recovering from Cancer and her treatments had her gain weight so not only is she weak from all the Chemo treatments but also her gaining weight, so she wanted to walk. We walked 1.36 miles says I only burned like 128 calories (not sure that is right but any calories is better than zero)  Well my run keeper app said 128 calories but my nutrition app said 200 calories. I have to remember not to give up although information seems to be all over the board and you can get lost in what you need to do for you to lose weight. Hey this is a journey right so let’s see what works and what doesn’t.  

I am going to take the approach though that I need to lose over a 100lbs so as my FB friend said look at losing 10lbs at a time. That is easier to digest that I need to lose 10lbs 10 times. J Let’s get to the first 10 lbs!!