TDEE

BeardedStudWarrior
BeardedStudWarrior Posts: 115 Member
edited November 11 in Health and Weight Loss
I have never understood TDEE or macros. Could someone who is patient pm me explaining all this.
Thank you!

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Total daily energy expenditure... How many calories you burn in a day, including any exercise you do.

    Macros are carbs, fat and protein.
  • BeardedStudWarrior
    BeardedStudWarrior Posts: 115 Member
    How do you know how many cals you burn in a day before you work out? What is 20% TDEE thing ppl talk about. Thank you!
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
  • pita7317
    pita7317 Posts: 1,437 Member
    There are online TDEE calculators. In order to lose weight you need to reduce that calorie number by either 15 or 20%. Hope that helps.
  • Pickles175
    Pickles175 Posts: 211 Member
    Go to the scooby calculator as shown above. Enter all your details and it will tell you your tdee. If you are trying to lose weight then take a deficit of 15-20% of the number given. This is the amount of calories you should eat everyday whether that is a workout day or not. If going by tdee you do not eat back exercise calories as this is already figured in.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    BeardedStudWarrior wrote: »
    How do you know how many cals you burn in a day before you work out? What is 20% TDEE thing ppl talk about. Thank you!

    You don't know. It's an estimate. And burns before exercise = net, not TDEE. Use calculators to estimate how much you burn on average when considering/including your regular exercise routine.

    TDEE-20% means estimate maintenance (TDEE), subtract 20% for a ~1lb/week weight loss.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    Pickles175 wrote: »
    Go to the scooby calculator as shown above. Enter all your details and it will tell you your tdee. If you are trying to lose weight then take a deficit of 15-20% of the number given. This is the amount of calories you should eat everyday whether that is a workout day or not. If going by tdee you do not eat back exercise calories as this is already figured in.

    UNLESS you happen to do some form of exercise that is outside of your norm that you think is worth logging. E.g. if you randomly go hiking for 2 hours, you probably will want to try logging that somehow nad eating back some of the cals. If you just did an extra 20 minute bike ride it's probably not worth logging.
  • BeardedStudWarrior
    BeardedStudWarrior Posts: 115 Member
    Thanks!
  • Pickles175
    Pickles175 Posts: 211 Member
    Hope that helps some.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    BeardedStudWarrior wrote: »
    How do you know how many cals you burn in a day before you work out? What is 20% TDEE thing ppl talk about. Thank you!

    There are any number of TDEE calculators that will calculate this for you. For most people, the majority of their daily "burn" is by the fact that they merely exist...heart pumping, lungs working, etc. Then you have the calories you burn with your day to day kind of stuff (including the energy (calories) required to digest food and whatnot...then your exercise. When you use this method you do NOT eat back exercise calories because they are already accounted for in your activity level...the only reason you do that with MFP is because exercise is NOT accounted for in the MFP activity level and you have to account for it somewhere.

    Just plug your stats into one of the calculators...they're a good starting point...from there make adjustments as necessary.

    Also, don't worry so much about macros right now...focus on what matters most, and that would be your energy (calorie) intake.
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