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<blockquote data-quote="DavidGrahamJones" data-source="post: 1564757" data-attributes="member: 245335"><p>Me too. I'm trying to type this in a light hearted manner because I go cold when I start looking at formula. LOL</p><p></p><p>First the theory, the good old Harris Benedict Formula, been around since 1918 has been tweaked in 1984 and 1990 and there are other formulas very similar in nature i.e. plug in weight/height/gender and age and out comes your Basic Metabolic Rate or in other words, calories required to keep you alive if you were in a coma in bed. There are then multipliers depending on your activity.</p><p></p><p>BMR calculation for men (imperial) BMR = 66 + ( 6.2 × weight in pounds ) + ( 12.7 × height in inches ) – ( 6.76 × age in years )</p><p>BMR calculation for women (imperial) BMR = 655.1 + ( 4.35 × weight in pounds ) + ( 4.7 × height in inches ) - ( 4.7 × age in years ) </p><p></p><p>I've heard several reasons which don't necessarily make too much sense.</p><p></p><p>Your body gets used to less food. I'd like to put a little faith in the Harris Benedict formula for calculating how much one should eat, and if your body is going to alter the way it handles the same amount of food from one day to the next, how do I know what sort of day it is when using the formula, if you know what I mean. I think there's another variable that should go in the formula, metabolism and we'll never know that number. </p><p></p><p>You should eat less and less as you lose weight. That sort of ties up with the Harris Benedict Formula except if you were to do a spreadsheet you would see that as weight changes, BMR doesn't really change by very much.</p><p></p><p>The third one I like, your body is programmed to weigh a certain weight, sounds like rubbish but explains an awful lot.</p><p></p><p>I can cope with being told that I gained weight because I ate too much, except my too much will be someone else's too little or just enough, even if they were the same age/gender/height/weight. How can I tell except for seeing pounds go on. </p><p></p><p>Losing weight has the same problem. The dieticians tell me that I should calculate my BMR using something like the Harris Benedict formula, hope it's accurate and deduct 500 calories from my daily amount and because it is said that 3500 calories is equivalent to a pound, eating 3500 calories less in a week means I should lose at least a pound.</p><p></p><p>That's never worked for me except for when I was taken off Rosiglitazone, which actually caused most of my problems in the first place. That stopped abruptly when I was prescribed Gliclazide, in fact I gained 10 kgs. I didn't then lose until I went on LC?F and that stopped eventually.</p><p></p><p>It's a pain in the backside really because the medics haven't got a clue although with my Nutritional Therapists we have identified a few problems with the way my innards work. I'm still trying the Newcastle that was partially successful but avoiding all meat/chicken/fish is very tricky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DavidGrahamJones, post: 1564757, member: 245335"] Me too. I'm trying to type this in a light hearted manner because I go cold when I start looking at formula. LOL First the theory, the good old Harris Benedict Formula, been around since 1918 has been tweaked in 1984 and 1990 and there are other formulas very similar in nature i.e. plug in weight/height/gender and age and out comes your Basic Metabolic Rate or in other words, calories required to keep you alive if you were in a coma in bed. There are then multipliers depending on your activity. BMR calculation for men (imperial) BMR = 66 + ( 6.2 × weight in pounds ) + ( 12.7 × height in inches ) – ( 6.76 × age in years ) BMR calculation for women (imperial) BMR = 655.1 + ( 4.35 × weight in pounds ) + ( 4.7 × height in inches ) - ( 4.7 × age in years ) I've heard several reasons which don't necessarily make too much sense. Your body gets used to less food. I'd like to put a little faith in the Harris Benedict formula for calculating how much one should eat, and if your body is going to alter the way it handles the same amount of food from one day to the next, how do I know what sort of day it is when using the formula, if you know what I mean. I think there's another variable that should go in the formula, metabolism and we'll never know that number. You should eat less and less as you lose weight. That sort of ties up with the Harris Benedict Formula except if you were to do a spreadsheet you would see that as weight changes, BMR doesn't really change by very much. The third one I like, your body is programmed to weigh a certain weight, sounds like rubbish but explains an awful lot. I can cope with being told that I gained weight because I ate too much, except my too much will be someone else's too little or just enough, even if they were the same age/gender/height/weight. How can I tell except for seeing pounds go on. Losing weight has the same problem. The dieticians tell me that I should calculate my BMR using something like the Harris Benedict formula, hope it's accurate and deduct 500 calories from my daily amount and because it is said that 3500 calories is equivalent to a pound, eating 3500 calories less in a week means I should lose at least a pound. That's never worked for me except for when I was taken off Rosiglitazone, which actually caused most of my problems in the first place. That stopped abruptly when I was prescribed Gliclazide, in fact I gained 10 kgs. I didn't then lose until I went on LC?F and that stopped eventually. It's a pain in the backside really because the medics haven't got a clue although with my Nutritional Therapists we have identified a few problems with the way my innards work. I'm still trying the Newcastle that was partially successful but avoiding all meat/chicken/fish is very tricky. [/QUOTE]
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