Hey all, I've been using Sccoby's calorie calculator and have been getting good results but I just went back to it today for a quick review and have a question. I am 19 years old and 5'6 and weigh 162 pounds currently. For the activity level it lists:
Desk job with little exercise
1-3 Hours/wk of light exercise
3-5 hours/wk of moderate exercise
5-6 hours/week of strenuous exercise
7-21 hours/wk of strenuous exercise/work
Given my age and activity level I kind of need help choosing an option. So, I am pretty sedentary overall when not in the gym. I am usually sitting down whenever I am not. For my job I work in a daycare and just pretty much watch over the kids and when I am home I just relax and play games or something. So, given my age, and uncertainess to just base it off of how much I workout a week some opinions would be awesome on which to choose. Also, I workout now about 5-6 days a week for usually about or a little over an hour each session.
Thanks!
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06-17-2012, 04:17 PM #1
Scoobysworkshop Calorie Calculator
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06-17-2012, 04:19 PM #2
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06-17-2012, 04:20 PM #3
Lmao, I'll recalculate using stickies and see what I get. Thanks.
Which activity level from the stickies:
1.2 = Sedentary (Desk job, and Little Formal Exercise)
1.3-1.4 = Lightly Active (Light daily activity AND light exercise 1-3 days a week)
1.5-1.6 = Moderately Active (Moderately daily Activity & Moderate exercise 3-5 days a week)
1.7-1.8 = Very Active (Physically demanding lifestyle & Hard exercise 6-7 days a week)
1.9-2.2 = Extremely Active (Athlete in ENDURANCE training or VERY HARD physical job)
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06-17-2012, 04:20 PM #4
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06-17-2012, 04:24 PM #5
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06-17-2012, 04:46 PM #6
Well, I used the Katch-McArdle method. I ended up getting:
LBM=64.11518181818182
BMR ended up being: 1,754.887927272727
BMR X Activity Level (used 1.4, good level for what I posted above?) = 2,456.843098181818
so then if I add 10% it equals about 2,704 calories.
Does this seem right with these stats?
5'6
162 pounds
estimatedly 12.93% body fat
and the above (first post) description of my activity
19 years old
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06-17-2012, 05:54 PM #7
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06-17-2012, 06:37 PM #8
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06-17-2012, 06:56 PM #9
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06-17-2012, 07:03 PM #10
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06-17-2012, 07:59 PM #11
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06-17-2012, 08:00 PM #12
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06-20-2012, 11:01 AM #13
- Join Date: Aug 2010
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Scooby's nutritional and body composition calculators are extremely accurate, which I suspect is why all of the 'success stories' on his website are under 170 lbs.
His body composition calculator said I was 10%, which was highly inaccurate, I was actually 16%. His nutritional calculator was also several hundred calories under what I am supposed to be consuming.
Just use the stickies, they have everything you need to know for gauging your results.“The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it’s difficult to discern whether or not they are genuine.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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06-20-2012, 11:08 AM #14
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07-01-2012, 10:30 PM #15
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