Confused about calories

ShivikaChandra
ShivikaChandra Posts: 35
in Food and Nutrition
Hi guys,
I'm 19 years old, 50kg, 15% BF. My goal is to be 45kg and lean. I'm extremely confused about the amount of calories I should be consuming per day. My fitness pal tells me my daily goal should be 1200 (thats literally impossible for me because I get hungry a lot). TDEE calculator tells me that I should be eating 1800-1900 calories for energy levels and BMR tells me 1345 calories. I consume around 1500 calories per day but thats above my daily goal and BMR. Does this mean that I will be gaining weight over time? Please help
xx

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  • HacheraTsarine
    HacheraTsarine Posts: 278 Member
    MFP : It's 1200 NET calories. Which means that you also have to take in account calories burned. For example, if you burn 300 calories in a cardio work out, you can eat 1500 calories (1500 calories consumed - 300 calories burned = 1200 NET calories).

    TDEE : You consume 80% (TDEE-20%) of that number. Never done that, but there are a lot of positive feedbacks concerning that method on MFP message boards. That's a different way than the MFP. You don't eat back the burned calories in this one.

    BMR : That's only the number of calories your body uses if you were to spent 24 hours without moving.

    Hope it helps :D
  • ShivikaChandra
    ShivikaChandra Posts: 35
    MFP : It's 1200 NET calories. Which means that you also have to take in account calories burned. For example, if you burn 300 calories in a cardio work out, you can eat 1500 calories (1500 calories consumed - 300 calories burned = 1200 NET calories).

    TDEE : You consume 80% (TDEE-20%) of that number. Never done that, but there are a lot of positive feedbacks concerning that method on MFP message boards. That's a different way than the MFP. You don't eat back the burned calories in this one.

    BMR : That's only the number of calories your body uses if you were to spent 24 hours without moving.

    Hope it helps :D

    thank you so much. I was so confused but its all cleared now :)
  • Hexahedra
    Hexahedra Posts: 894 Member
    At your weight the BMR calculator should be fairly accurate. As long as you eat above your BMR and below your TDEE, you won't have much problem losing weight. You won't lose it as fast as on MFP's 1200-calorie limit, but you will still lose it and most likely keep the new weight. It's tougher to get the lean look if you lose muscle along with fat, so I strongly recommend doing some strength training (pun intended).

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