What are my maintenance calories?

jarablue

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?

Vicxie86

Try this

http://www.iifym.com/tdee-calculator/

RoxieDawn

or maybe even this one http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/

sijomial

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.