Guest guest Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 That's the weird thing, It has all the correct info in there.>I went back and checked to make sure. It has my age, sex, height and weight in there and goal weight. > > You know, you may want to go back and reenter your stats. I'm 5 feet 8 > inches and weigh 147 lbs. Sparks tells me that to achieve my goal > weight I need to consume 1200 to 1500 calories per day. It just seems > intuitively to me that if you're 250 that your intake should be higher > than the number you got from Sparks. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Ok, that is totally weird.I just entered it for a third time and now it jumped up to 1290-1640 > > You know, you may want to go back and reenter your stats. I'm 5 feet 8 > inches and weigh 147 lbs. Sparks tells me that to achieve my goal > weight I need to consume 1200 to 1500 calories per day. It just seems > intuitively to me that if you're 250 that your intake should be higher > than the number you got from Sparks. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Did you also enter how many days a week you plan to do cardio and strength training? It takes that into account as well. Re: Sparks' calculation That's the weird thing, It has all the correct info in there.>I went back and checked to make sure. It has my age, sex, height and weight in there and goal weight. > > You know, you may want to go back and reenter your stats. I'm 5 feet 8 > inches and weigh 147 lbs. Sparks tells me that to achieve my goal > weight I need to consume 1200 to 1500 calories per day. It just seems > intuitively to me that if you're 250 that your intake should be higher > than the number you got from Sparks. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 I put in three days of strength training and Three days of cardio. Although I think I will probably do more cardio than that. > > > > You know, you may want to go back and reenter your stats. I'm 5 feet > 8 > > inches and weigh 147 lbs. Sparks tells me that to achieve my goal > > weight I need to consume 1200 to 1500 calories per day. It just > seems > > intuitively to me that if you're 250 that your intake should be > higher > > than the number you got from Sparks. > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 I weigh 236 lbs and Sparks gave me a calorie range of 1200 -1500 a day as well. And that is with strength training 3 days a week and cardio 4 days a week. I'm ignoring their so-called advice and going with Tom Venuto's (BFFM) instead. Cath --------- Re: Sparks' calculation That's the weird thing, It has all the correct info in there.>I went back and checked to make sure. It has my age, sex, height and weight in there and goal weight. > > You know, you may want to go back and reenter your stats. I'm 5 feet 8 > inches and weigh 147 lbs. Sparks tells me that to achieve my goal > weight I need to consume 1200 to 1500 calories per day. It just seems > intuitively to me that if you're 250 that your intake should be higher > than the number you got from Sparks. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 How many cals do you take in with Tom's method? Im not familiar with him > > > > You know, you may want to go back and reenter your stats. I'm 5 feet > 8 > > inches and weigh 147 lbs. Sparks tells me that to achieve my goal > > weight I need to consume 1200 to 1500 calories per day. It just > seems > > intuitively to me that if you're 250 that your intake should be > higher > > than the number you got from Sparks. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 A friend of mine recently put up a website that uses two of the different methods - one being the one recommended by Tom in BFFM. The link is here: http://www.goodfood4you.com/ (Yeah, you gotta register, but its absolutely free. The reason you gotta register is because there's a nutritional database on the next page that you can customize, so it needs to create and " account " .) The " -Benedict " is the most common way of calculating calorie needs and is used if you do not know your body fat percentage. The " Katch-McArdle " method is used if you do know your body fat percentage and is considered more accurate though it doesn't utilize as many variables. For me: 165pounds, 32%BF, 5'10 " (70 " ), age 26, light-activity H-B method: (BMR)1572 (TDEE) 2162 K-A method: (BMR)1471 (TDEE) 2022 So, as you see, the numbers are close but not identical. Another advantage of that calculator is it easily shows you a 10%, 15% and 20% calorie reduction, as well as the number of calories you would need at 6 or 5 meals per day. Very handy. Saves me MUCH calculating. The only thing it doesn't take into account is if you're using a Taper method, meaning the bulk of your calories is in the morning and your evening meal is the smallest (taper your calories from higher to lower). A lot of people use the taper successfully, particularly by putting their carbs more in the morning and removing carbs completely from their evening meal. However, everyone tapers slightly differently and needs different macro-nutrient ratios so it is difficult to generalize. Hope this helps! - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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