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so three days into my BodyMedia Fit
Any HOLY GUACAMOLE is this thing eye opening!
I'm averaging 3,000 calories burned a day. 
Which would explain why I hit a massive weight loss plateau on just 26 WW points a day and why eating 1500 calories (I switched to just calorie counting on January 1st) wasn't resulting in weight loss.
I had kind of suspected I wasn't eating enough and upped it to 1800 + eating back exercise calories two weeks ago and have lost almost 2 pounds since then.
Another week or two of tracking and if my average stays this high, I might up it to 2,000 calories.
So, if you are stalled out on weight loss, GET AN ARMBAND!
Re: so three days into my BodyMedia Fit
GO! St. Louis Half Marathon-2:32:13
Omaha Half Marathon 9.23.12
Wow!! It never dawned on me that I could possibly be burning more than I think. I have been hesitant because I was sure it would say I'm not burning half of what I think!
Good info, thanks for sharing. And btw, 3000 cals a day - what a bad@ss!
2012 Races: 3/18 Shamrock Shuffle 5k; 4/14 E.R. Race for Autism 5k (PR! 25:58); 6/9 Riudoso Sprint Triathlon; 6/24 Chunky Monkey 10K; 7/29 Cochiti Lake Olympic Triathlon; 9/16 Chips & Salsa 1/2 Marathon; 10/21 Duke City 1/2 Marathon; 12/2 Rock & Roll 1/2 Marathon in Vegas!
Here's my honesty, I was so hungry on the 26 points a day, I was having trouble staying committed to tracking because I was tired of feeling like I was failing at WW, does that make sense?
So I upped it to 29 points, got better about tracking, and was eating every single point I could get. Still not losing weight. I dropped the 3 pounds I put on over the holidays but didn't move the scale after that.
I was training for a half marathon, but eating back all my activity points.
What started cluing me in was doing my BMR calculations and figuring out my activity levels from that. My BMR is 1478 and using the Harris Benedict Equation and the very active option, it gives me daily caloric needs of 2500. Since I'm what to lose weight, take out 500 calories and that gives me 2000 a day. Which is right at what my band is telling me.
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Ok, thanks! I've always struggled with the HB Equation and selecting which category I fall in, which is utimately why I ended up on WW (for the bazillionth time). I will have to keep this in mind.
GO! St. Louis Half Marathon-2:32:13
Omaha Half Marathon 9.23.12
It suuuuuucks. But, they have a manual button where you can put in your day's calories by yourself. So I still track in My Fitness Pal, then every night, just add in my total number of calories consumed.
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It can definitely be trial and error. And I didn't think I needed a very high number, so that's why I went with 1500 at first. Two things that can help though:
1. If you have a heart rate monitor, select the sedentary (or I use the lightly active since I'm a SAHM to two toddlers), and then eat back all of your exercise calories.
2. Or, if you don't pick moderately active and eat all of those calories for a month and see where your weight goes.
I did about a month on 1500 and wasn't seeing results, so that's why I upped it to 1800 and within a week, started seeing movement on the scale.
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