What are my maintenance calories?

jarablue
jarablue Posts: 127 Member
edited June 2016 in Goal: Maintaining Weight
I heard (google told me) you should multiply your weight by 14 and then by 17 and take the middle number and that is it. So for me I weigh 220 pounds. I would like to be 185 at goal. So is the formula 14x220 and then 17x220 and then take the middle number of those two totals? How does this work?

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  • Vicxie86
    Vicxie86 Posts: 181 Member
    Try this

    http://www.iifym.com/tdee-calculator/
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    or maybe even this one http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Sounds incredibly vague as I'm not seeing anything in there to account for your exercise or activity level - seems pretty pointless when there's plenty of other and better ways to come up with an estimate.
    In summer my exercise can gain me three days extra worth of food a week so I would be horribly under eating.

    Go by your own results would be my suggestion (calories eaten + 3500 for each pound lost / days sampled) - which corrects for any logging inaccuracy.

    Or use the site you are on and add exercise calories.

    Or use a TDEE calculator.

    In the end they are all estimates to give you a start point, you then adjust based on results over time.

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