Your weight X 15 = maintance?

jessicarthibodeau
jessicarthibodeau Posts: 7 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Anyone have any luck with this math and deducting 200-300 calories a day? It just seems like so much food!

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  • LisaGirlfriend
    LisaGirlfriend Posts: 493 Member
    My weight x 15 works out to be about where my TDEE is daily so seems about right to me. Eating 200-300 below it would be a 10-15% deficit which again seems right. Visit the Eat More to Lose Weight discussion forum for lots of info about TDEE and deficits.
  • jpuderbaugh
    jpuderbaugh Posts: 318 Member
    My weight times 15 is way more calories than I eat in a day. If I eat over my daily calories a few times a week, even if barely over by 100, the scale will not budge and sometimes even goes up. And my daily calories right now are less than my weight x 6 right now.
  • LadyIntrepid
    LadyIntrepid Posts: 399 Member
    Math works about right for me!

    P.S. Without the deficit. Just weight x 1900 is pretty much it.
  • crista_b
    crista_b Posts: 1,192 Member
    My weight x 15 = TDEE + 1000 calories.... That's way off for me.

    ETA: I have about 50-60 lbs to lose.
  • jessicarthibodeau
    jessicarthibodeau Posts: 7 Member
    I should mention that I have about 60 lbs to lose. Anyone use it with a lot of weight to lose?
  • jessicarthibodeau
    jessicarthibodeau Posts: 7 Member
    And I'm guessing I shouldn't eat back my exercise calories if I do this math right?
  • ami5000psu
    ami5000psu Posts: 391 Member
    That's pretty accurate for my TDEE as well. Interesting.
  • phyllisgehrke
    phyllisgehrke Posts: 238 Member
    So if you are at Maintenance.
    Do I deduct 200 calories off, as I am now at 1200 calories.

    I have 1 pound to go, so how do I figure this in?
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    Typically those formulas work well if you have a relatively low bf%. I've seen the suggestion of 12-13 if you have a lot of weight to lose. Personally, 12 is closer to my TDEE. And keep in mind that it's a generic formula that completely does not take exercise into account. I think it's easier to go through and calculate TDEE (use several different calculators and maybe average the ones that are semi close). Well, maybe not easier, but might cause less heartache since it's not as much of a stab in the dark...
  • Vailara
    Vailara Posts: 2,468 Member
    My weight x 15 is massively over my TDEE!
  • sleepingtodream
    sleepingtodream Posts: 304 Member
    Was spot on for me at maintenance.
  • georgann1114
    georgann1114 Posts: 30 Member
    I use this site to figure mine out. Seems to work perfectly for me so far. http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
  • nadiB
    nadiB Posts: 283 Member
    Mine actually works out pretty close..... For maintenance
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    it's about right for me, but I highly doubt it'll be about right for everyone. Someone already mentioned body fat percentage. If you have a higher body fat percentage you will burn fewer calories at the same weight.

    Also, there's no accounting for activity. I do weights but not cardio, and this gives me a number close to my maintenance calories. However if I started doing cardio as well my maintenance calories would go up.

    So all in all, not a good method.

    Use a decent calorie calculator that is based on Katch McArdle or Harris Benedict, and includes an activity factor adjustment.
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    It only sort of works if you are at something close to your ideal weight. You don't need to feed fat so if you are overweight it's giving you too many calories. Better to use a BMR or TDEE calculator.
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  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    My weight x 15 is about 200 more than my TDEE (by eating at maintenance rather than a calculator). So a 200 deficit from that would not result in weight loss for me.

    But I'm older so that might change the rules.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    I always thought it was weight times 10 = what you should eat to lose.

    That sounds about right.

    OP, are you sure it's not your goal weight x 15?
  • husseycd
    husseycd Posts: 814 Member
    It's under for me, but I have relatively low BF.
  • chandanista
    chandanista Posts: 986 Member
    My goal weight x 15 is perfect for what I've estimated my maintenance will be when I get there. However, current weight x 15 is quite a bit higher than my current TDEE.

    Current weight x 10 is a bit higher than my BMR but not quite to TDEE so I can see it as a point someone would use to lose.
  • BL_Mark
    BL_Mark Posts: 183 Member
    4,000 calories per day is the reason I'm on this site now trying to LOSE weight.... I have another 100lbs to go, so I don't think 4000/day is going to work
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
    hmmm... my weight X15 would be too low, not trying to lose weight though.
  • judykat7
    judykat7 Posts: 576 Member
    Not sure, but I think when I have read this before in posts - for it to work it is your GOAL weight x 15. Not your current. I could have misunderstood though. As you have stated it would not work for me, I have about 20# to lose yet.
  • Love_Is_My_Fuel
    Love_Is_My_Fuel Posts: 211 Member
    Wow I did that calculation and need 3465 calories to maintain lol...never would I ever eat that much even before I started losing weight. I have about 75 to go. I normally stay in the range of 1400---1500 calories and at first when I was 280 lbs. I had a deficit of almost 1000 because I was working out so much to kick start my weight loss. I'm now tapering off on the workouts and consuming the same amount....still losing 1-2 lbs. a week at 231lbs. Perhaps the calculation works if you are not considered "obese" lol...it seems ridiculous to me.

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