Need help loosing weight

Puggled

Hi,

I've been told via my TDEE (never heard of it before tonight) that I can eat 2329 calories a day. If I shave 20% off (1863) I'll loose weight but I don't know how much. Yet when I put all this info into Myfitnessbuddy it says I'll gain 0.2 kilos. Not good. I'm desperate to get from 73.5kgs to 65 for the 15 of September for my wedding and need as much help as I can. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Capt_Apollo

that doesn't sound right... the "gain 0.2 kilos."

but you know what doesn't sound right? trying to lose almost 10 kilos in two months. thats a kilo a week... (2.2 lbs a week for you americans and non-scientific types).

how tall are you? i'm guessing 2329 is your TDEE at sedentary?

born2drum

MFP sucks at this, kinda. I only use MFP to track my calories. I then enter my macros, protein, carbs, and fat goals manually because again, MFP swears I only need 85g of protein and 254g of carbs bull****.

Your TDEE is your Total Daily Energy Expenditure and usually includes any calories you burn working out. SO if your TDEE is 2329 and you eat 1863 then you will lose a lb per week. Example, my TDEE is 2780 and i set myself up at 1810 calories per day. I go over sometimes but so what. I lift heavy and im already at over 750kcal deficit which means a 1.5lb weight loss per week. I usually end up losing on average 1.75lbs (this has been the norm) eating at 1810kcals but keep in mind, I work out 5-6 times a week with 5 heavy lifting days and maybe 3 cardio days.

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

MFP doesn't include your exercise, and TDEE method does.

For me, my sedentary TDEE is 1760, so if I put in a calorie goal of anything more than that MFP will tell me I'm going to gain weight because it's planning to add my exercise separately.

heybales

Hi,

I've been told via my TDEE (never heard of it before tonight) that I can eat 2329 calories a day. If I shave 20% off (1863) I'll loose weight but I don't know how much. Yet when I put all this info into Myfitnessbuddy it says I'll gain 0.2 kilos. Not good. I'm desperate to get from 73.5kgs to 65 for the 15 of September for my wedding and need as much help as I can. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

MFP already calculated a non-exercise maintenance calorie level for you, by your selection of Activity level and BMR it calculated.

This it assumes you burn on avg daily - with NO exercise.
It then takes 250, 500, 750, 1000 calories off depending on your goal weight loss.
You then exercise and log it, and eat those calories back keeping that deficit in there.

You just calculated a calorie level where maintenance WITH exercise was included, and then took a 20% deficit off of that.
You then entered that as your manual eating goal.

But that was above MFP already calculated non-exercise maintenance level, so from MFP's point of view, you'd gain weight eating that much.
MFP is unaware you already included exercise.

And setting time based goals for weight loss is a bad idea, you'll end up frustrated and unhappy, and that stress will make it even harder to lose weight and hopefully just fat.