Reducing Calories With Weight Loss?

Ws2016

As I lose weight, my BMR and TDEE comes down as well, right? Should I then be reducing calorie intake beyond what my original MFP setting orescribed?

psuLemon

BMR will change, but TDEE doesn't necessarily change.. my maintenance calories are the same at 220 lbs as there are at 175 lbs currently. It's because I workout harder now and are more active in my daily life. What also changes, is how big the deficit should be. The more lean you are, the smaller your deficit should be.

jemhh

If your weight loss stalls for 3+ weeks, drop calories. I wouldn't necessarily make it habit to drop calories each time my weight dropped. I'd only drop them when necessary.

aub6689

Generally the less you weigh, the less calories your body will burn during the day, but this can be wildly different depending on how much muscle you have, your age, gender, hormones, workouts, etc.
Personally, I would not reduce your calorie intake unless you stop losing weight.

DebSozo

Ws2016 wrote: »

As I lose weight, my BMR and TDEE comes down as well, right? Should I then be reducing calorie intake beyond what my original MFP setting orescribed?

TDEE is your total daily energy expenditure including movement and exercise. That changes depending on activity, injuries that might slow you down, etc.

BMR or basal metabolic rate includes the amount of calories your body needs to burn to survive and function at rest (before exercise or exertion).

As you get smaller your body needs less calories to run your body functions because a person with extra weight needs more calories to stay at that weight.

DebSozo

It is good to recalculate your daily calorie requirements as you lose weight every so often. What mostly happens is that larger people lose faster than a smaller person eating the same calories. Then as the larger person gets smaller and lighter their rate of loss eventually slows too.

erickirb

Although the cals you burn may decrease, if you don't increase exercise, as you lose, you don't need to eat less, as the less you have to lose the smaller your deficit should be.
In other words, when you have 75lbs to lose set to lose 2 lbs/week, when you get to 50 change to 1.5. This may actually be an increase in cals of 100-200 per day even though you weigh 25 lbs less. what it does is slow your rate of loss.

EvgeniZyntx

Reevaluate your calorie needs as you lose weight. Yes, if you don't change your exercise or activity habits your TDEE and BMR will naturally decrease with weight loss.

Ws2016

Thanks everyone! Looks like consensus is to keep tracking and adjust down caloric intake if I stop losing weight for a period of time. Will do that.