confused over bmr and food intake

[muzza]

hi guys i am on day 14 of induction im male and weigh about 160 kg s .i worked out my bmr and apparently its about 2700 calories .now most days i eat between 2500 and 2800 calories according to fitday 'but somedays like today i only eat about 1900 calories i no fitday is not an exact measurment of my intake but i think it would be close . anyway im wondering if anyone else has done similar in the past and if this will affect my weight loss at all ? thanks muz

[Georgiana]

Re: confused over bmr and food intake

You should be eating until you are satisfied, but not stuffed. If you are not hungry, I wouldn't worry about calories. For some folks though, figuring out when they have to stop eating is not so easy in the beginning. Then, to have you an approximation of how many calories you should aim for, you can use things such as the BMR and the AMR. However, these are numbers that would apply for the average person and might not always reflect the truth about one's metabolism. If you want to read more about this, there is a sticky thread here:

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/forums/atkins-low-carb-dieting-faqs/6747-bmr-amr-bmi.html

1900 sounds like a good number to me. Are you losing? If you are, then you must be doing something right.

[not2late]

Re: confused over bmr and food intake

I agree with Georgiana. This early in the Diet, I wouldn't worry about BMRs, AMRs, etc. Eat until you are satisfied, but not stuffed.

You've already noticed that some days you'll eat more than others. And that's perfectly normal. Newborn babies eat only the amount of formula/milk they need to eat to stay alive and do their baby activities. Children typically do this until they are toddlers. Then some well-meaning adult starts to worry that the child isn't eating enough because they think a 2 year old should be able to eat the same amount of food that a 14 year old does. So they push food onto the child, who then learns to stop eating when he or she is stuffed to the gills, rather than to eat only that amount of food they need to eat.

Your body won't let you starve. I tend to eat more the more physically active I am. For example, when I go on a 5 mile hike or a 15 mile bike ride, I'm more hungry than on days I'm sitting in the office pushing the papers in the "in" pile to the "out" pile.