Alrighteee! Getting my RMR tested on Wednesday morning. The lady who does it seems pretty cool - she is a strength and conditioning coach for Loyola University, and she is a CSCS. We already talked a lot on the phone, and I'm sure it will continue with the testing.
Here's my numbers for the days logged.
-Since Nov 15th, 18 days logged, 8 days not logged (4 of which were the Thanksgiving day weekend)
-Average exercise expenditure for days logged: 385
-RMR at 2,400
-Average total expenditure at 2,785 kcals/day
-Average food intake: 2,182 kcals
-Average Deficit: 604 kcals/day
-Average Macro%: 35%C/26%P/39%F of which 8% ot total is saturated.
OK, at these numbers, I should be losing my 1 to 1-1/2 lbs of fat a week. It ain't happening. So, here are some what-ifs:
-My overall calculated deficit for the 18 days was 10,865 kcals - even IF I overate on the days I didn't log, I would've had to eat an extra 1,358 kcals per day on top of my normal 2400 kcal number to wipe out the deficit. I never eat this much - so this is most likely not the cause of my failure to date.
-IF I overestimated RMR by 400 kcals, my average deficit would be 204 kcals. Still, that should put me at some loss, not none as has happened.
-IF I overestimated my exercise expenditure by 15%, that would only put my deficit down to 546 kcals/day.
-IF I underestimated my food intake by 10% (very unlikely given that I weigh to the gram and input everything), then my deficit would be 495/day. Should still see loss.
-I would have to have all of the above factors to have a wash (deficit of only 37 kcals).... hard to believe I would've messed up that much since I have done this type of measuring many times before with no problem.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. Will be interesting to see what the RMR turns out to be.
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