Calorie counter weight loss/gain tool...

[Spoooon]

I'm trying to find an online calorie counter weight loss/gain tool to do with some kids tonight (working on nutrition).

For fun, I wanted to calculate how much weight someone would gain if they were to go on a Michael Phelps Olympic training diet with no exercise for a week or two.

All of the calculators I've found basically provide you with calories to maintain, gain, or lose.

I have an app on my phone, but wanted the kids to be able to put the info in themselves on the Smartboard.

I'm still googling, but the work ISP is super freaking slow. Cookies for whoever finds one.

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Variables to input: age, sex, weight, height, calories, time (2 weeks or months or whatever)
Output: weight gain

 

[vi edit]

In theory...

Phelps was eating 10,000 calories a day. A normal person needs around 2000 a day to maintain weight. (women a bit less...men a bit more).

A pound of fat is 3500 calories.

Doing the math.....

10,000 X 14 = 140,000
2000 x 14 = 28,000

140,000 - 28,000 = 112,000.
112,000/3500 = 32 pounds.

 

[Spoooon]

In theory...

Phelps was eating 10,000 calories a day. A normal person needs around 2000 a day to maintain weight. (women a bit less...men a bit more).

A pound of fat is 3500 calories.

Doing the math.....

10,000 X 14 = 140,000
2000 x 14 = 28,000

140,000 - 28,000 = 112,000.
112,000/3500 = 32 pounds.

Yeah, we could manually calculate it, but I didn't want the discussion to get bogged down. And I was hoping to be able to have the kids plug in different variables as needed. Though I suppose I could force the kids to do it all for me.

I'm kind of thinking I won't find a calculator to do what I want, I've looked at 10-15 different websites and they are all variations of the same thing so far.

 

[Train]

I've been using "Calorie Counter" from the Android app store on my tablet. Fairly easy to estimate your recommended daily intake, then track your consumption & excercise. Remembers commonly eaten stuff to save you time, and even lets you scan a barcode as a shortut to lookup exact nutrition info.

Syncs with a website, but I have never even bothered to log in, have everything I need on the tablet.

 

[Tweak155]

MyFitnessPal is very popular.

 

[Saint Nick]

MyFitnessPal is very popular.

And probably one of the best ones. You can scan bar codes with your camera and it loads it right in. I'd start using it but I don't have a smart phone.

Stuck with fitday.com for now...

 

[Aikouka]

A friend of mine was talking to me about his parents going on a diet, and he told me their calorie amounts. When he said that his dad was only going to eat ~1700 calories a day, my face looked a lot like this: . His dad's probably about 5'11" 245 pounds. At least based on everything that I've read in the Health and Fitness forum, that value sounds way too low. We tried plugging his dad's values into a BMR calculator, and if I remember correctly, we got around 2000 calories.

 

[vi edit]

A friend of mine was talking to me about his parents going on a diet, and he told me their calorie amounts. When he said that his dad was only going to eat ~1700 calories a day, my face looked a lot like this: . His dad's probably about 5'11" 245 pounds. At least based on everything that I've read in the Health and Fitness forum, that value sounds way too low. We tried plugging his dad's values into a BMR calculator, and if I remember correctly, we got around 2000 calories.

There's nothing wrong with that at all. It's about 500 calories below his likely BMR and is pefect for a pound a week, or ~4 pounds a month weight loss. It's an agressive weight loss plan for sure, but nothing crazy like the 1200 calorie ultra restrictive diets that some people are put on during bariatric consult services.

 

[Aikouka]

There's nothing wrong with that at all. It's about 500 calories below his likely BMR and is pefect for a pound a week, or ~4 pounds a month weight loss. It's an agressive weight loss plan for sure, but nothing crazy like the 1200 calorie ultra restrictive diets that some people are put on during bariatric consult services.

Aren't you supposed to be between your BMR and your daily usage? At least according to the almighty H&F sticky, that's the effective weight loss area. Anything else and you're not really dieting but actually starving your body.

 

[silverpig]

I used fitday for a while. I don't know if it'll do exactly what you want.

You could just do a very simple excel spreadsheet based on the calculation above though.

 

[silverpig]

Aren't you supposed to be between your BMR and your daily usage? At least according to the almighty H&F sticky, that's the effective weight loss area. Anything else and you're not really dieting but actually starving your body.

You're starving it of calories, but I suppose so long as you get your nutrients, it's probably just a faster way to lose weight.


<--- not a nutritionologist

 

[Cookie]

Aren't you supposed to be between your BMR and your daily usage? At least according to the almighty H&F sticky, that's the effective weight loss area. Anything else and you're not really dieting but actually starving your body.

That's my understanding also. You want to be 500 calories below your maintenance amount to lose a pound a week, but never lower than your BMR.

 

[darkxshade]

That's my understanding also. You want to be 500 calories below your maintenance amount to lose a pound a week, but never lower than your BMR.

That's just a generalization... a heavier individual should have no problems going under BMR.

 

[Cookie]

That's just a generalization... a heavier individual should have no problems going under BMR.

Agreed
There are a lot of generalizations, assumptions, and estimations within the fitness and nutrition topic.

 

[vi edit]

That's just a generalization... a heavier individual should have no problems going under BMR.

Yeh, at 5'11 and 245 I'm guessing there's A LOT of pudge there. Fat does not have anywhere near the calorie needs of muscle so there's some wiggle room. Plus the fact that he's likely sedentary and the window between BMR and maintenance is pretty small. You'll have to dip below BRM to lose significant weight through diet alone.

Plus the simple human factor that if he's aiming for 1700 it will likely be more like 1900 due to portion sizes, cheating, ect.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

That's just a generalization... a heavier individual should have no problems going under BMR.

True. It really depends on BMI I think moreso than weight. If you're 6'8" and 250 trying to lose weight, I'd say stay above your BMR. If you're 5'8" and 250, I'd say dropping below your BMR is fine. I'd say as someone starts to dip below a BMI of 30, they should probably make sure to stay above their BMR at that level. That's completely arbitrary, but it's a nice line to set that is clear and easy to follow.