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A little help please regarding TDEE

bumblebee
bumblebee Posts: 53 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi there

I'm a bit confused as to hiw much I should eat to maintain my weight?

I am 5ft 7.5inched tall, female, age 42 and weigh 9 stone 5lbs.

Today I consumed 2343 calories worth of food (I treated myself to some chip shop chips lol).

I burnt 400 calories running

Will I have gone over my calorie allowance to maintain?

My TDEE works out at 2234, by clicking the 3-5 days a week moderate exercise option. Do I then add my exercise calories burnt each day on top of my TDEE figure?

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  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,487 Member
    TDEE has exercise/activity built in.
  • sllm1
    sllm1 Posts: 2,130 Member
    Correct, TDEE includes exercise, so if you are using that number don't count the exercise as extra cals.

    Stick with 2234 calories each day.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    If you use tdee you don't need to eat back exercise cals, they should already be added.

    Just remember that they're all estimates... try it for 6 weeks, tweak up or down depending what the scales do.
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