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Ok, So I have been tracking myself on fitday.com for a week. I am eating 1000-1200 calories per day, but I can't get my calories burned up that high. I put in 8 hours of work, some walking around at work, I played tennis for 30 minutes, went for a 30 minute walk, did housework, and all that added up to only 780 calories burned. I am so pissed. There is only so much time in a day. Are they saying that even with my BAND I am going to have to work out 4 hours a day. I mean 1000 calories isnt that much people. i'm barely eating. I'm starting to think this band is just going to maintain me at 227 for the rest of my life and that mean I am going to be morbidly obese forever. CRY!

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Are you (or the Fitday software) taking into account your base metabolic rate? That is the rate at which you burn calories while at rest (sleeping or lying down). For example, my base metabolic rate is 1,200 (!). That means that at rest, my body burns 1,200 calories in a day. I am not muscular, nor do I exercise, but still I'm burning 1,200 per day. I'll bet if you had a BMR test done, it would reveal you are burning many, many more calories than 780.

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Laura, you have a certain amount of basal calories, that you burn up no matter what. On Fitday if you go to your reporting section and go to Where did I burn my calorie report, you have a certain amount that is automatically used based on the information that was provided when you gave your info to fitday. A general guideline so to speak. Like for me today, I burned a total of 3,075 calories, 1665 was my basal, 1034 was my lifestyle and 376 was for activities. Check yours out and I think you will feel a bit better about your day.

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You can just about guarantee your basal metabolic rate is at least that much, probably way more. Best ways to break through plateaus include different types of exercise, change your routine completely, focus more on something you havent been focussing on so much for example. Change what you're eating, when you're eating it - like six small meals a day instead of 3, even try eating more!

Plateaus are natural, they dont mean you're doing something wrong.

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Plateau's are comin in weight loss after you get so far!... I" think that I have hit three.

Change up! Jachut is right.

Learn from my mistake,"Id eat about 1500/? calorie's then work out for hour's.

Around May' some one told me here, that I' was burning more calorie's then "I was taking in there for robbing my self of proper Nutrient's........unaware of it! 42 days of killing myself and only lost 3 pound's.

If you are able light weight's and( cardieo ) work's well! And if not just walk as it is easy on your knee's and lower back! good luck with your weight loss Journey,you have done the biggest step getting banded now you have to work with it. Take care God bless.

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I guess bitching and moaning burns calories - haha - b/c after I posted this this AM I weighed myself and low and behold it said 224!!!!!

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That's so funny. If it burned that many calories I'd be a skinny mini by now!!

I'm glad you are feeling better. :P

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