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Originally Posted by GTAHVIT
I was doing some High intensity Training a while back, about 4 years ago and they ran a bunch of tests on me. VO2 max RMR among some other fitness tests. They did say my RMR was low at that time.
I did the actual "sleep" test so it was actual RMR not calculated, if that makes sense.
I was over 220 then, and was able to get down to 190.. I've been pretty good about keeping my wieght down but recently was getting close to the 210 number so I started dieting "again"... as I've said before excerise time hard to come by so, I started to gain the weight back....
I'll be 38 in in a few weeks
as of this morning I weighed 199.8
5' 9"
thanks again.
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With no exercise your bmr is about 2240. For fat loss typically you would reduce cals by 500 cals and never more than 1000 cals. So you would be eating a max of 1740 cals and a min. of 1240 cals. I think the 1400 figure you have is reasonable for fat loss not your bmr. If your bmr was 1400 - 500 you would be eating 900 cals way to low.
What you posted above is very typicall of people dieting, they tend to loose weight because of restricted cals then slack off or their body kicks in because of low cals and the weight creeps back up, that is the main reason why 500 cals less than bmr is usually recomended, your body can sustain that for a good amount of time without fighting back, if you consume less than that (as you are around 750 less) every week a cheat day as they call it will allow your body to stay in a defict without fighting back. When you have lost the desired amount of fat you gradually increase cals by about 250 until you maintain.
If you are able to add a little bit of exercise and increase your cals slightly it may be more beneficial. It is always better to burn the fat through exercise than to loose weight by starving the body. The reason I put it like that is when you exercise you litterally burn fat, when you diet you loose weight but a good amount is lean body mass not fat.