What does 1600 calories look like

[Anonymous]

My Fitbit says I burn about 1600 calories a day if I don't do anything particularly active and just do my office job and walk around the office a bit. I am not good with counting calories or knowing how many calories are in something in general. What could a typical day look like if I just wanted to eat as much as I'm burning?

I drink about 80oz of water a day, couple cups of coffee with creamer in the morning. I do like to eat though.

[Anonymous]

About 400 less than these: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/22/upshot/what-2000-calories-looks-like.html

[Anonymous]

Fitbit estimates a Base Metabolic Rate (BMR) for you based on your sex, age, height and weight. This is a background calorie burn rate that you use just being alive (breathing, body temperature, heart pumping, brain thinking...).

Your BMR can be around 1000/day just doing nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Fitbit says I burn about 1600 calories a day if I don't do anything particularly active and just do my office job and walk around the office a bit. I am not good with counting calories or knowing how many calories are in something in general. What could a typical day look like if I just wanted to eat as much as I'm burning?

I drink about 80oz of water a day, couple cups of coffee with creamer in the morning. I do like to eat though.

Hunger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fitbit estimates a Base Metabolic Rate (BMR) for you based on your sex, age, height and weight. This is a background calorie burn rate that you use just being alive (breathing, body temperature, heart pumping, brain thinking...).

Your BMR can be around 1000/day just doing nothing.

Fitbit is way off for me. It is not really reliable.

[Anonymous]

The Fitbit is fairly accurate if you use the HRM. I usually give myself a couple of years and shave a few pounds to make sure it's not over, but it has been pretty accurate for me.

[Anonymous]

There is no one way 1600 calories looks. 1600 calories can be a day of oatmeal and fruit, lean meat, veggies and starches, nuts and healthy snacks, or it can be one appetizer at a chain restaurant.

[Anonymous]

You can try putting your food in My Fitness Pal. I've fallen off the wagon, but at one point I was doing 21 day fix, and I think my target there technically should have been 1200-1400 calories but I thought that was ridiculous so I aimed for the 1500-1799 calorie plan. I followed the diet strictly, and when I input what I was eating to MFP it was about 1600 calories a day.

[Anonymous]

I only get 1300 calories per day-so jealous you burn 1600 wth n exercise!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I only get 1300 calories per day-so jealous you burn 1600 wth n exercise!

Are you completely sedentary? Because even on my hangover/sick days when I lay around most of the time, I burn about 1500-1600. And I'm short and over 40.

if that is all you are burning, forget exercise. You just need to move more in general, for your overall health

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Fitbit is fairly accurate if you use the HRM. I usually give myself a couple of years and shave a few pounds to make sure it's not over, but it has been pretty accurate for me.

You are lucky, it is not accurate for everyone. Everyone is different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I only get 1300 calories per day-so jealous you burn 1600 wth n exercise!

Are you completely sedentary? Because even on my hangover/sick days when I lay around most of the time, I burn about 1500-1600. And I'm short and over 40.

if that is all you are burning, forget exercise. You just need to move more in general, for your overall health

We are all different. I would gain weight on 1500 if I did not exercise. 54, female, 5'7" and overweight. I can maintain with 1500-1800 if I exercise at least 60-90 minutes a day and be fairly active throughout the rest of the day (which includes about 8-10,000 steps outside of the exercise). I have an extremely hard time losing weight. This has been the same since I was in my late teens. When I went to college, I was eating about 2/3 of what everyone else was eating, I was exercising about 50% more and I was 2-3 sizes larger. Now that I am 54, it hasn't changed.

[Anonymous]

a Double Whopper with Cheese and a large Coke

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Fitbit is fairly accurate if you use the HRM. I usually give myself a couple of years and shave a few pounds to make sure it's not over, but it has been pretty accurate for me.

You are lucky, it is not accurate for everyone. Everyone is different.

Of course everyone is different, but most people who diverge too far from the accuracy are outliers. FTMP, a good HRM combined with appropriate data will give you an accurate calorie burn throughout the day.

I think most people would be shocked (I know I was) to see how little they are burning throughout the day by sitting around for 18-20 hours of the day. Aside from some real metabolic disorders, a HRM is an excellent way to see how much you are actually putting out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Fitbit is fairly accurate if you use the HRM. I usually give myself a couple of years and shave a few pounds to make sure it's not over, but it has been pretty accurate for me.

You are lucky, it is not accurate for everyone. Everyone is different.

Of course everyone is different, but most people who diverge too far from the accuracy are outliers. FTMP, a good HRM combined with appropriate data will give you an accurate calorie burn throughout the day.

I think most people would be shocked (I know I was) to see how little they are burning throughout the day by sitting around for 18-20 hours of the day. Aside from some real metabolic disorders, a HRM is an excellent way to see how much you are actually putting out.

What is HRM? I googled it and it gave me many things, but none that seemed appropriate for this type of thing.