Increasing TDEE

Javachipgirl
Javachipgirl Posts: 27 Member
edited December 4 in Food and Nutrition
Hi! I redid my TDEE today since I've lost 16.5 lbs!!! I sit at a desk all day but go to the gym for an hour workout 6x/wk - hitt 4x/wk, yoga 1x/wk and spinning 1x/wk. What do you suggest my activity level be? Sedentary or moderately active?

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  • sammyliftsandeats
    sammyliftsandeats Posts: 2,421 Member
    Moderately active.
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    Within MFP, which uses NEAT rather than TDEE, activity level is set for your day-to-day activity not counting specific exercise. Times when you exercise are added separately.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I'd say in between lightly active and moderately active (assuming you're using TDEE and not MFP).
  • Javachipgirl
    Javachipgirl Posts: 27 Member
    I used TDEE to calculate how many calories and macros to eat but track everything in MFP.

    What does NEAT mean?
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    edited October 2016
    I used TDEE to calculate how many calories and macros to eat but track everything in MFP.

    What does NEAT mean?

    TDEE is Total Daily Energy Expenditure and includes all of the energy burned by your body. You include expected exercise when you use a TDEE calculator.

    NEAT is Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis. MFP includes that in the overall recommended calorie intake (as Activity Level) but does not include the calories that you burn through specific exercise. Calories from exercise get added to your calorie goal when you log exercise.

    If you use a TDEE calculator, you can set your MFP calories to that and then just don't log exercise in MFP or zero out the calories from that exercise. TDEE is good if your exercise is pretty regular throughout the week so that the calories even out.

    If you use the MFP calculator, you'll get a lower initial daily calorie goal because it expects you to add exercise calories. Your calorie goal will go up and down daily depending upon how much exercise you enter.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator
    Hi! I redid my TDEE today since I've lost 16.5 lbs!!! I sit at a desk all day but go to the gym for an hour workout 6x/wk - hitt 4x/wk, yoga 1x/wk and spinning 1x/wk. What do you suggest my activity level be? Sedentary or moderately active?

    Has your weight loss slowed down? I honestly wouldn't adjust unless something isnt working. And how much you losing ler week?
  • medic2038
    medic2038 Posts: 434 Member
    If you're working a desk job you're sedentary.
    Most people tend to way overestimate what they do at work (most ARE sedentary).
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,454 Member
    medic2038 wrote: »
    If you're working a desk job you're sedentary.
    Most people tend to way overestimate what they do at work (most ARE sedentary).

    See, I found just the opposite! I truly am sedentary. Retired, not married, live in a small condo - so not much cleaning and no yard work. I walk for an hour maybe three to four times a week. The Sedentary setting is way too low for me, I had to bump it up.

    I think it's true in both directions, after being on this site for many years and reading [too many] posts.

    YMMV, but *most* isn't true.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    What is this weird and widespread obsession with using formulas to come up with pretty pointless estimates?
    I can see that they can give a start point, but that's all they give.

    You know what amount of calories you have been eating and also know what happens to your weight when you eat at that level.

    Just manually change your goal calories if you need to - keep it simple!
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