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Tdee and mfp

ksmommy5
Posts: 142 Member
Mfp says 1540 cals where tdee says 2155.
I'm so confused. I'm on day 2 and have been around the 1500 cals no exercise right now.
I'm so confused. I'm on day 2 and have been around the 1500 cals no exercise right now.
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MFP uses a NEAT, which means they don't include your exercise calories in your daily calorie goal. This is why you're expected to eat back your exercise calories if you're using MFP's numbers.
TDEE includes your weekly exercise, hence the higher daily calorie goal.2 -
Mfp doesn't take exercise into account and tdee does include it. If you exercise and log it you will "earn" more calories to eat. Your tdee should be roughly the same as your mfp goal plus exercise.1
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Thank you. So let's say I start exercise on Monday I log it my calories will increase because of the exercise ?0
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So if it went from 1500 to 1700 after exercise logged then I should eat back 100 cals?0
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Yes, eating back 50-70% of your exercise calories is generally a good idea. So in your example, eating back anywhere from 100-140 calories is a safe bet.1
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CafeRacer808 wrote: »Yes, eating back 50-70% of your exercise calories is generally a good idea. So in your example, eating back anywhere from 100-140 calories is a safe bet.
Thank you so much!1 -
So if it went from 1500 to 1700 after exercise logged then I should eat back 100 cals?
Yes. And after a few weeks you can reevaluate. If you are losing as expected you are good. If you are losing faster than expected then you can eat back more of the exercise calories. If you aren't losing as fast as expected then eat back less.0 -
Even if you used the TDEE method (I do) you would need to implement a calorie deficit... your TDEE is your maintenance calories, you have to eat a few hundred less than that to lose weight (250 cals less than TDEE = 0.5 lbs per week loss, 500 cals less than TDEE = 1 lb per week loss, etc.) and with TDEE method you do not eat back any exercise calories.
Or just use the myfitnesspal method- but I prefer TDEE.
However some TDEE calculators seem very high! Try this one instead:
http://www.iifym.com/tdee-calculator/
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It's all about the deficit you pick too. Guessing you picked 'lose 2 lbs a week' for MFP... while on TDEE, a 20% deficit will be smaller than 1000 calories.0
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