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Am I right?

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  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    Jayj180894 wrote: »
    mrsnattybulking wrote: »
    Do you dig ditches for 12 hours at work?

    10 hours

    Just read that you work in a cafe. When I was a server at a busy breakfast restaurant I'd usually end the day with about 15-18k steps. My tdee was 2600ish so still not that high but depending on your weight you may be higher or lower. Have you considered getting a fitness tracker? Like a Fitbit? Or you could just pick "active" and monitor your weight loss and you'd know pretty quickly if you need to eat more or less
  • Jayj180894
    Jayj180894 Posts: 286 Member
    katadx wrote: »
    I work at a restaurant and I stand and walk most of the time and I only give myself +200 calories on top of my 1800. Hence, I set my MFP to give me 2000 calories every day. I log actual gym cardio separately. I hope this perspective helps!

    I do this too. It's set to active. I just very badly worded it lol. Just wondered if your BMR and TDEE was together or on top of each other kinda thing.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,474 Member
    edited June 2017
    TDEE = BMR + Daily Activity (all daily activity including exercise.)

    If you use TDEE to calculate weight loss calories you don't add calories for exercise on those days. You use TDEE minus 10% = your daily calories for weight loss and you eat the same every day regardless.

    If you use Myfitnesspal's calculation, it does this calculation for you based on the activity level you choose based on your normal routine and you add in EXTRA exercise calories above and beyond your normal daily activity.
  • fitmom4lifemfp
    fitmom4lifemfp Posts: 1,572 Member
    PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »
    It's all guesses anyway, so if the results don't pan out, adjust. Adjust your activity level, don't eat exercise calories, or whatever.

    That ^^ right there.
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    Jayj180894 wrote: »
    Am I right in thinking, you burn around 1800kcal just generally doing nothing threw out the day? Then when you're at work you burn on top of that. So you burn 1800 generally, burn 1500 working, so in total 2800 then you eat around 1500kcal so in essence youre burning around half a pound a day as one pound is around 3 500 kcal. .. if that made any sense at all

    I don't know your stats so I don't know if you burn 1800 just generally doing nothing. BUT if that is the amount you burn from doing pretty much nothing, you'd have to be super active, on your feet and running around constantly, to burn an additional 1500 from your job.

    But in theory, yes figuring out how much you burn in a day from all sources and eating less: is how you lose weigh.t
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