Day 165 - Resting Metabolic Rate

I went in and had my resting metabolic rate done and I have to say I was a bit disheartened.  My RMR was 1500 which means if I wanted to lose two pounds a week (which is normal) I would have to eat 500 calories a day (you have to eat a deficit of 3500 calories to lose a pound so to lose one pound I would have to eat 500 calories a day less or to lose two pounds I would have to eat 1000 calories a day less.)

Now their is no way that I can possible only eat 500 calories a day.  It just isn't going to happen, so then I have to do exercise to compensate for the calories I can't cut so I would have to do 700 calories of exercise a day to make up for the food I can't cut.  It is very hard to do 700 calories worth of exercise a day.

The worst part of the test was that I had to hold this thing in my mouth and my lips were holding it and I found that my lips aren't that strong.  By the end of the 10 minutes the mouth piece was bobbing and it almost fell out of my mouth once.  A new torture package fer shur.

However, I have been doing the Mufflin to calculate my weight loss and I have it is much closer to what I have been losing.  So it just goes to show that maybe machines aren't as accurate as one would expect them to be.

Well off to work I go - they tell me if I fidgety  that will increase weight lose so I am going to fidget away.