Working out my 'allowance'

LAWNYBEE

Hi all, well I work in retail management and my day is a 12 hr shift, never sitting down, apart from 40 mins or so for a break. I'm constantly moving furniture/groceries and walking the length of the shop over 100 times a day easily (It's a big store)
I'm also up and down 2 flights of stairs lots of times a day as our warehouse is upstairs..
I set my allowance to 1200 calories to lose 2lb a week, however because of how active I am it's set it for me at 1600, is this okay, or will I start piling it all back on ?

Help... I'm trying to lose the chunky monkey.

obscuremusicreference

I have been there and done that! No, you are too active for 1200 and you will be underfeeding yourself on 1200. (I do 1200 because I work at home). I think that I worked out harder at that job some workouts I do now! Go with MFP. You are burning at a larger rate.

BeTheChange352

start out by eating at your BMR or your TDEE-20%. 1200 is way too low for someone so active.

TavistockToad

Start at 1600 and see what happens for a few weeks then tweak your cals up or down.

TavistockToad

BeTheChange352 wrote: »

start out by eating at your BMR or your TDEE-20%. 1200 is way too low for someone so active.

If OP just ate their bmr that would be far to low also.

mymodernbabylon

BeTheChange352 wrote: »

start out by eating at your BMR or your TDEE-20%. 1200 is way too low for someone so active.

Ignore this - your BMR is what you would burn if you were in a coma, which you clearly are not.

You might do best by figuring out your TDEE which includes not only exercise but also any other activity (which would mean your job) - this would put you at the very active level. And then subtract 15-20%.

Or just set MFP for very active as this is what you are and eat back 1/2 of any exercise calories. To be honest with you, 1600 seems low (I was losing at 1880 plus exercise and I'm less active than you). If you less than 50lb to lose, 2 lb a week is also too aggressive. I'd set a max of 1 lb a week loss.

LAWNYBEE

Thanks everyone - :-)