How many Cals to Eat

Interesting 

this has me at near 1200 calories per day if I did this right. Even when I wasn't training i ate around 1500 for weight loss.

 this can't be right...unless i did something wrong. (i've done it twice). help.

gw = 165      last known - 251 (i know i'm around 238 now)    sedentary day job.

I get 2144 for you if I use 700 calories burned for workouts, 20% for the sedentary job and subtract 20% for weight loss.   

I've not used that specific site but have used another site to track both food and exercise.  I find that food journaling  is a fantastic way to get a better sense of what I'm eating and keep it under control.  I don't do it all the time but when I start feeling like the weight has stopped coming off or my eating is out of control then I'll do it again for a period to get myself back on track. 

Check out www.calorieking.com this site is a great source of information from software (which is excellent), to recipes, to health tips, etc.

There is a calculator there (under 'resources / tools') that will tell you what calories you need to consume to maintain a specific weight for your height, age and gender.

I highly recommend it.

For me...my goal weight (for now) is 185.  I weigh about 210 currently.  I have a sedentary job.  I swim 3 times a week (45m session) calculates to 572 calories each session.  I also bike maybe once a week for 45m, which calculates to 714 calories a session.  So, total weekly exercise is 2430 calories, divied by 7 days a week is....347 calories per day burned (on average).

Am I allowed to average out my daily calorie burn like that based off weekly numbers?

Based on Cappy's calculator (using -20% for weight loss) gives me a number of 2005.

Now...my question.  What does this number mean?  Does that mean, this is how many calories I can/should eat daily, based on my job and exercise to maintain my goal weight?

What exactly does the -20% weight loss part mean?  20% of what?

(p.s.  2005 calories, again, seems high to me for someone in my position trying to lose weight.)

Interesting thread.  This seems more complicated then what I did.

I got my BMR from getting a test done at my gym.  I then multiplied that daily number by 7.  Next I subtracted 1k calories per day for 2lbs per week loss.  Finally, I added back the calories I burned through working out by using the number my heartrate monitor spits out at the end of the workout.

Doing this I was able to steadily drop 2lbs per week from 295-208.  After my injury at the end of last season I was sedintary and somewhat depressed over the winter so I gained some back.  Now I'm back on the same strategy gearing up for next season and its working like a charm again.

It also helps for me to have a software program I can just load everything into and trackk my progress.  I use Diet Power myself.

Joshua