MANUALLY calculating my own TDEE help please

Kimblesnbits13

Ok math people please help me out.

How do I manually figure out my tdee maintenance calories? I don't want to use online calculators because I believe my own personal logging data will be more accurate. I've calculated that I've lost on average .58lbs each week for the last 6 weeks. I dont really know what my deficit is if I dont know my maintenance calories. All I know is 3500cals=1lb.....Math is not my favorite.

I wouldnt say it was a consistent .58 lbs/wk loss but over the WHOLE 6 weeks that's what it came out to (I also use happy scale for the trending weight) My logging was as accurate as I can, meaning I use a food scale whenever possible but there were outings, thanksgiving, holiday/bday parties, going out to dinners here and there etc but overall with my estimates we as best as I can. Here are my 6 weeks worth of logging (I put my maintenance tdee calories guessed at 1900) :

Stats of today are 33yr old female @ 125 lbs

Week 1: Net cal average: 1609 (Net cals under guessed maintenance: 1958)
Week 2: Net cal average: 1844 (Net cals under guessed maintenance: 395)
Week 3: Net cal average: 1778 (Net cals under guessed maintenance: 851)
Week 4 (thanksgiving week) net cal average: 1912 (Net cals under guessed maintenance: 85)
Week 5: Net cal average: 1587 (Net cals under guessed maintenance: 2191)
Week 6: Net cal average: 1539 (Net cals under guessed maintenance: 2526)

Sooooo.....my REAL tdee maintenance cals would be around???

diannethegeek

.58 pounds lost times 3500 calories per pound of fat = 2030 calories below maintenance per week. Divided by 7 days, that means you're at an average deficit of 290 calories per day.

Your average net calories per day is 1711 over 6 weeks (adding up each number per week and dividing by the number of weeks).

290 + 1711 = 2001.

Your approximate maintenance is 2001 net calories.

Kimblesnbits13

diannethegeek wrote: »

.58 pounds lost times 3500 calories per pound of fat = 2030 calories below maintenance per week. Divided by 7 days, that means you're at an average deficit of 290 calories per day.

Your average net calories per day is 1711 over 6 weeks (adding up each number per week and dividing by the number of weeks).

290 + 1711 = 2001.

Your approximate maintenance is 2001 net calories.

Thanks genius! Your username is perfect for that reply above!