[Gord0n]

Hello Forumites, new guy here. And I have questions. Here is a basic background to what I am doing, and after I have a few questions.

Background.

My employment has gone from Banking to Driving (Public Transit driver)
I now sit all day long.

6Ft1
30years old
Decent build

After slacking off since my kids came (six years ago) I noticed almost two weeks ago I tipped the 280 mark. I decided to take action. I have been going to the gym 3 days a week, with a goal of 300calories burned in cardio (apx half an hour of stairs/inclined walking/jogging which I alternate on each visit) as shown by the equiptment calorie calculator. And then 30 mins of free weights.

I have also changed my eating habits drastically. Before I would eat no breakfast, huge lunch and huge dinner with lots of great greasy salty snacks in between. (A lunch would consist of 18 perogies cooked in butter with lots of ketchup, or a whole box of macaroni or hamburger helper. Lets face it, i didnt get this big eating wheaties)
Now I have a slimfast for breakfast, which takes a bite out of my apetite around lunchtime. My other meals consist of 90% vegetables/fruit and 10% fish/chicken.

I have kept this eating habit for almost two weeks now, and see no reason to go back. I find I can eat plenty enough food within my calorie allotment to meet my goals.

I have lost 15lb in my first two weeks, which is wayyyy to fast. But I am assuming this is mostly water weight as I have gone from consuming 1000% of my sodium requirements to being within my 100%. So this is slowing down to apx 1lb every other day.

This is what I am basing my diet on.

6ft1
30 years old
Male
265lb
8hours sleep and 16 hours sitting ( I have a sit down job, but I dont actually sit that long)

This gives my a BMR of 2923
To reach my goal I need to loose 1370 calories a day.
And that has been easy, as I have found a few vegetables that are uberlow in calories vs volume to ensure my meals are satisfying (without being too big of course)

Questions

Are those calorie burned calculators on workout equiptment accurate at all?

How do i get rid of all the extra skin Im going to have when the weight comes off?

Im thinking my BMR might be off as people apx the same height weigh the same or less, but look heavier. (I have broad shoulders and 18inch biceps, arms and shoulders are not flabby at all (although far from ripped as well), so my muscle mass may be throwing off my BMR. When I was 23 I weighed 200lb, and was in good shape with a small belly (no big gut) whereas by some charts I would be considered obese. Would that mean I naturally burn more calories or less?

My calorie budget breakdown is as follows


260 breakfast (slimfast)

6-700 lunch (big meal)
150 snack (cucumber slices and cerlery slices and carrots)
400 dinner (medium meal)
150 snack (popcorn/yogurt/cereal without milk.)


Does this sound good?

Any other advice would be great. I will be active here from now on, as I find the more involved I am, the more I will stick to this.

PS
I am using the VidaOne Diet and Fitness program to track calories taken in, and calculating BMR.