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Old Tue, Sep-16-03, 16:12
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Plan: low cal, low carb
Stats: 196/145/140 Female 5'6.5
BF:23%
Progress: 91%
Location: Coolum Beach, Australia
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Can you tell us more about your activity level.. this seems a bit high unless you work out hugely or are employed at fairly manual labor. Did you look at the definitions of activity below the calculator? It says there that most people overestimate their activity. Most of us spend our days in very light and light activity with bursts of moderate and maybe 4-8 hours a week of heavy if you are doing cardio and weight lifting. Walking around the house picking things up and making beds, etc would be 'light' Sitting at the computer, driving, cooking, watching TV is 'very light'...so if you spend 8 hours sleeping, and most of the day doing housework and driving and cooking, that is light and the evening sitting down to dinner and watching TV etc., then this is light. Then factor in the average per day of your weekly heavy activity if you exercise vigorously.

But if what you have given is accurate, then you should be losing weight. I suspect you may have over estimated activity. Chasing after a child all day would be 'light activity' even if it seems like hard work!!

Val
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