I have to post the information that I learned last night. Tom's cousin Lynn who is a personal trainer, came up to the thumb last night to do metabolic testing for Tom and I and some of my girlfriends. Let me backtrack a little.....I have been counting WW points for the last I don't know how many years (at least 6). I just started counting calories religiously for the last six months. Well, the website I was using had my target set at 1200 calories per day to lose about 2lb per week. Well...I lost some, but have hit a plateau and can never seem to stay on track. I've been working my butt off and not seeing any results. This is EXTREMELY frustrating!!
Well, this metabolic testing gives you your RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate)...in other words how many calories my body would burn if I sat in a chair and did nothing all day long. Of course, I don't do that....so you need to add additional calories burned doing your daily activities and any exercising that you do. So....my RMR came in at 2477 calories, plus it figures around 741 for daily activities and another 258 for a 30 mintue workout daily. So what does all this mean??? It means that I can eat between 2477-3218 calories every day just to MAINTAIN my weight. Well, I don't want to maintain, I want to lose....so, to lose weight, I should be eating between 1983-2477 calories every day. This is totally blowing my mind....still, 24 hours later. And these numbers are not estimates, they are based on my breathing, my oxygen....this test is even covered by insurance companies, it is that accurate. So...here I've been trying to live off of 1200 calories (not very successfully, I might add), when in fact I should have been eating a lot more all along. I think my problem was I would stick to that 1200 calories during the week and on the weekends I would eat a lot more (probably in the 1900-2400 range). Therefore my body was in starvation mode most of the time. I had heard of this starvation mode before but didn't really buy into it. I'm still struggling to buy into it...however Lynn is the BEST when it comes to fitness, health, personal training and I trust her 100%, so I have to trust this test. I'm so excited to be able to eat more....don't get me wrong, I'm not going hog wild on the sweets, pizza, ice cream...all that good stuff....I'm focusing on eating the right foods that will satisfy me the longest.
It is amazing how much more refreshed I feel and what a positive outlook I have on my future health and weight loss.
THANK YOU SO MUCH LYNN WRACAN!!!!!
