Help calculating

jigglyjessica

my TDEE is about 2700 without exercise and I'm eating 1600, first is that correct? Also if I started exercising would it be ok to not eat the calories back?

ana3067

TDEE = maintenance needs with exercise. If you calculate without exercise this is your NEAT. So if you used a TDEE calculator and selected "sedentary/no exercise" or whatever the option is called, then that's your NEAT. Meaning when you do exercise, you log it and eat back at least half of the calories MFP or your machine or HRM spits out for you.

Maintenance = 2700.
Eating 1600 = 1100 calorie deficit.
1100 calorie deficit = larger than the absolute largest recommended deficit of 1000 calories per day for 2lb/week.

Eat 1600 calories and exercise = increase your TDEE (let's pretend up to 3000).
Maintain on 3000 and only eat 1600 = 1400 calorie deficit.
1400 calorie deficit = 400 calories more than is recommended as a maximum daily deficit.

Merkavar

Why not just use mfp calc? You seem to be using neat and not tdee.

What did mfp calc as your maintenance calories? As you goal to lose 2 pound a week?

If mfp is similiar to your tdee I would just use mfp and not over complicate things.