Eating a set number of calories but still feeling hungry.

[nickbits]

drink more water.. sometimes dehydration masks as hunger

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

no
BMR is the minimum your body would need if you were in coma doing nothing but breathing. you should generally eat above your BMR but below your TDEE for weight loss.

for me,since i spend a lot of the day sitting, i eat my BMR plus about 200 calories, plus calories for whatever (if any) exercise I do, like this


exercise days = bmr + 200 + exercise cals (usually about 200)

non exercise days = bmr + 200

Whoa. My calorie counter (My Fitness Pal) has been saying my BMR is 1600 based on my stats and my calorie "goal" per day is 1400 based on the fact that I want to lose some weight (155lb to 145lb) MyFitnessPal is wrong?

You can see my goal is 1400, I did a lot of exercise, ate a lot, and still came up with 97 cals under.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

How often do you exercise, for how long and at what intensity? You can average it out across a week - as Koing mentioned earlier - which will give you more calories per day to work with.

I generally play tennis about 4 times a week for at least 2 hours each session? Average intensity would be average. I don't generally do much else since I'm having a really hard time finding activities that interest me. Running is boring IMO. I'm not big into lifting weights. But tennis - tennis is like a mindfuck. I would say that tennis is 80% mental and strategy, which is what brings me back to it. Even things like hitting the ball out of bounds or rimming the ball on the racket has everything to do with not being mentally there and almost nothing to do with physical shortcomings.

 

[KidNiki1]

yeah, i think the mfp bmr calculator is wrong personally. i used the bmr calculator in the fat loss sticky and then manually adjusted the numbers for my goals. http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

been doing it this way for over a year and been losing. slow but steady. also, i think they grossly overestimate calories for exercises. according to them, my hour of light cardio cycling is 570 calories. however, my exercise bike allows me to put in my stats and it comes up with 280. that's quite a significant difference.

 

[PenguinPower]

Whoa. My calorie counter (My Fitness Pal) has been saying my BMR is 1600 based on my stats and my calorie "goal" per day is 1400 based on the fact that I want to lose some weight (155lb to 145lb) MyFitnessPal is wrong?

You can see my goal is 1400, I did a lot of exercise, ate a lot, and still came up with 97 cals under.

I don't like the way MFP calculates, and prefer the TDEE method. Based on what you stated in this thread, I would do the following on MFP:

Change MFP - Settings - Update diet/fitness profile


Set Activity Level to Very Active and Weight Loss goal to Maintain Change MFP - Goals - Change Goals - Custom - Continue
Set Net Calories Consumed to 2327, change Calories Burned goal to 0 if not logging them
Set Carbohydrates to 60%, Protein to 20%, Fat to 20%

Don't log your exercise (or if you want to, log it as 1 calorie). This should get you about 1lbs/wk of loss.

What is you ultimate goal weight?

 

[Koing]

Once you work out what you eat consistently for a week, you can adjust accordingly. These are ball park figures to start you off.

I'd eat say 1800 each day or as close to it for 2 weeks. See what your fat loss is after 2 weeks. Keep doing it and see where you are. Once you are say 4 weeks deep in to your diet you should still be losing fat consistently and over the initial water weight loss at the start of your diet. If you aren't and you can't account for it (bad days, ill, functions you had to attend etc) you are eating too much for your TDEE. I'd lower it by 150cal or rethink your macros.

YOU WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT ON THE MOST AMOUNT OF CALORIES AS YOU CAN when you start out.

You don't want to start on say 1400 and then after 6-8 weeks find you will not lose anymore fat. Your body will adjust to fat loss on whatever calories you give it. Start high and then skim 150cal off the top if your fat loss stalls out for more than 2 weeks.

Koing

 

[nanette1985]

Most Korean BBQ I've had comes with sweet sauces. Doesn't take much sweet stuff to trigger hunger.