Average TDEE each week, is this calculate right?

splashblob
splashblob Posts: 249 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Sorry if I seems to be redundant, but I am extremely dumb at math. I have post this thread in Maintenance group once but I just want to be more sure, so I post this question on here too. ohwell

Let's say, for example; here is how much I burn from July 1-July 7 based from my Fitbit Ultra

On Monday - Sunday

TDEE: 2152 + 2152 + 2168 + 2177 + 2261 + 1842 + 1730 = 2068
Estimated Cals eaten : 2155 + 1831 + 1813 + 1918 + 1995 + 1849 + 1762
Calories Remaining (-3) + 321 + 355 + 259 + 182 -7 -32 = 1075

So

My average TDEE per week is : 14482 divided by 7 = 2068, therefore my average calories from July 1st- July 7th is approximately 2068

Calories Remaining: 1075, therefore on Sunday, this week, even though today I burn less than my TDEE today, if I am still hungry or craving something....I can eat more than 2068 but never exceeding 3143 (2068+1075)... ???


Is this correct if I average my TDEE each week like this? Or should I just stick with my maintenance calories? Around 1730 (rest day) to 2100 (exercise day) ??

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  • splashblob
    splashblob Posts: 249 Member
    Bump..

    Anyone?
  • lblert
    lblert Posts: 55
    If you lost weight during that time period, you can multiply the pounds lost by 3500 and add that number to your total calories eaten for the week. Then divide that number by 7 to find your approximate TDEE for that week.
  • Marina809
    Marina809 Posts: 38
    quote: If you lost weight during that time period, you can multiply the pounds lost by 3500 and add that number to your total calories eaten for the week. Then divide that number by 7 to find your approximate TDEE for that week.



    But there is no way to know if you lost water or fat so how would that work? 0.5 lbs of fat and 0.5 lbs of water is not going to equal 3500 calories, right?

    Edit to add quote.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    i was a bit confused by the question. If you're trying to maintain you can eat your TDEE over a day, a week, a month, a sliding 7 days or whatever takes your fancy.

    Does that help ?
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    Sorry if I seems to be redundant, but I am extremely dumb at math. I have post this thread in Maintenance group once but I just want to be more sure, so I post this question on here too. ohwell

    Let's say, for example; here is how much I burn from July 1-July 7 based from my Fitbit Ultra

    On Monday - Sunday

    TDEE: 2152 + 2152 + 2168 + 2177 + 2261 + 1842 + 1730 = 2068
    Estimated Cals eaten : 2155 + 1831 + 1813 + 1918 + 1995 + 1849 + 1762
    Calories Remaining (-3) + 321 + 355 + 259 + 182 -7 -32 = 1075

    So

    My average TDEE per week is : 14482 divided by 7 = 2068, therefore my average calories from July 1st- July 7th is approximately 2068

    Calories Remaining: 1075, therefore on Sunday, this week, even though today I burn less than my TDEE today, if I am still hungry or craving something....I can eat more than 2068 but never exceeding 3143 (2068+1075)... ???


    Is this correct if I average my TDEE each week like this? Or should I just stick with my maintenance calories? Around 1730 (rest day) to 2100 (exercise day) ??

    Yes that's right but it seems overly complicated to me. I'd just take the average and shoot for that every day. See how you make out for a month or so and adjust as necessary.
  • lblert
    lblert Posts: 55
    But there is no way to know if you lost water or fat so how would that work? 0.5 lbs of fat and 0.5 lbs of water is not going to equal 3500 calories, right?

    It was my understanding that significant water weight loss was usually just in the first one or two weeks of weight loss. You could probably get a better approximation if you took 4-6 weeks of data for the averages. It's not going to be exact, but I think it's a decent estimate. I did my numbers using 2, 4, and 6 week averages and they were pretty close to what my estimates were using the TDEE calculators on the spreadsheet that has been posted on here by heybales. It's a good way to do spot checks.
  • splashblob
    splashblob Posts: 249 Member
    i was a bit confused by the question. If you're trying to maintain you can eat your TDEE over a day, a week, a month, a sliding 7 days or whatever takes your fancy.

    Does that help ?

    Yes, I am trying to maintain now. Thanks for take notice for this. :smile: What I am concern is if I average My TDEE wrong and over eat on my cheat day (Sunday-as in my example in the first thread) , I will gain weight ? Is it OK if I counting calories in this manner every week with Sunday as my cheat day?
    Yes that's right but it seems overly complicated to me. I'd just take the average and shoot for that every day. See how you make out for a month or so and adjust as necessary.

    My life schedule is vary, so my average TDEE per week is fluctuate almost all the time. So I just choose to calculate of how much should I eat like this, I am just not sure I get it right or not on Sunday or not.

    Thanks all for the answer though.
  • Timmmy40
    Timmmy40 Posts: 152 Member
    bump
  • Timmmy40
    Timmmy40 Posts: 152 Member
    I don't like the math on this. When I calculated my TDEE this way it was 5630 calories. Then minus that by 20% and it is 4504 calories a day. I don't think so. I averaged 17,712 calories consumed and I burnt 5742. Maybe I am doing the calculation wrong, but I averaged 2530 calories eaten for the week and I lost 6.2lbs over last week.

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