Food & Exercise Apps Question..

 I think that there is money out there waiting on the right app for post op bariatric surgery patients.

I've been using Livestrong as well, but I'm confused about logging exercise/activities.  Do you log absolutely everything you do ie, eating, sleeping, cooking or ONLY exercise?

I put my settings to Sedentary (I have a desk job) and have been logging absolutely everything I do for a 24 hour period and my calorie burn is around 3500 per day.  I'm eating 1600-1800 calories a day so I'm always ending up with a HUGE negative net calorie consumption for the day.

My daily activity generally consists of:

Power walk to work and home: 20 minutes each way
2-3 hours of pedaling on a pedaler under my desk while working.
60 minutes of walking the dogs up and down hills in good weather
45 minutes of weights and core ball exercises
45-60 minutes elliptical

I do this 4 times per week and weekends are generally long hikes with the dogs.

I'm at goal weight and it's holding steady, I am building A LOT of muscle in my arms, legs and abs but I'm hungry all the time and kind of freaked out about eating so many calories!

Wow, you are a busy latdy!

I use a heart rate monitor for my deliberate exercise and I record the calories burned in Livestrong in addition to food and drink that I consume.   I do not log other activities (just don't have the energy to do that)

I have been working with the nutritionist to find the right balance of calories in and calories out and I think that we are getting close.  For me and my body, we think that it is OK that I have a calorie deficit some days but we are finding some guidelines for that.  She had me do an In Body Analysis ( a very sophisticated scale and % body fat measure) to really pinpoint my Basal Metabolic Rate BMR  (# of calories my body burns just to eat, sleep, work at a desk each day)  that has been key in deterimining what I should eat.  Your BMR is a function of how much lean muscle mass you have to "feed"  I think I noticed that you weight around 119 (or maybe that is how much you have lost...sorry don't remember and it doesn't show in the "reply" screen)  Your BMR would be significantly lower than mine as I weight 185 and have 150.5lbs of fat free mass. 
If you don't know your fat free mass and dry lean muscle mass and BMR, you might want to see if your nutritionist can help you get these numbers, they were quite helpful to me. 

Don't know if this helps at all.....

Shelly

I really should get a HRM one of these days.    I wanted to try out a bodpod to get an analysis, but the closest place to me in Newmarket that had one went out of business.  Guelph Uni has one but it's only for student's and people that are participating in studies.  I really would like an accurate measure of my body fat at this point and a true BMR.

I poked around the livestong forum and it seems that I should just set my setting to sedentary and track ONLY exercise.

Based on yesterday's results I'm still ending up with a large net deficit, so I guess I should eat more if I can.

My weight has been fluctuating between 117 and 119 the past few weeks.  And at 5'6" I'm happy with that, I just need to tone up some more.

Impressive weight loss, wow, I'm only a few inches taller and could never be that light....

If you plan to be in the Ottawa area, you could check into getting an inbody analysis done from Beth Mansfield (very well respected expert in athlete nutrition and training) check out her classes or she can do private sessions at www.peakperformance.ca  It was $50 well spent, to get that information and to build my eating plan around that.

If you can tap into the nutritionist at your clinic, best to check in with him or her about eating more - the nutritionist at the clinic in Ottawa has been absolutely amazing and hugely helpful.

Shelly