Calorie calculators

Running_and_Coffee

Anyone try this one? https://www.calorieking.com/interactive-tools/how-many-calories-should-you-eat/

It feels more accurate to me than some of the other ones I've tried, which have always been pretty generous (assuming that I can lose weight on more calories than this one allotted me.) Not sure how the underlying formulas differ, but I can say this one lines up with my personal experience more than others have.

Panini911

Interestingly i just tried the calorie king today (usually just stick to MFP) and it was allowing me significantly more calories than MFP (like 1500 VS 1200)

cmriverside

I used to use their exercise calculator.

Meh. All of them are guesses - Calorie King probably uses TDEE minus a percentage, MyFitnessPal uses NEAT to calculate.

Apples/oranges.

Just keep good records and adjust as needed. One is not better than another, they all use tried and true (differing in how they account for exercise) general population algorithms.

AnnPT77

It asks about activity not including exercise, then doesn't mention exercise again? Weird.

Regardless: The numbers it gives me are crazy low. I'm currently losing very slowly (maybe half a pound a week) on the calories it says would have me gaining 1-2 pounds a week. But most calculators are low, for me.

briscogun

That was actually pretty right on the money for me in maintenance

kami3006

The upper end of the 200 calorie range they give is fitting for me but, like Ann said, they don't mention exercise calories anywhere. If I didn't eat them, I wouldn't be maintaining on their numbers,or if in deficit, I would be losing at a super fast rate.

Running_and_Coffee

Yeah, I am "inactive" because I have a desk job but exercise 6 days a week. Which makes sense-- if I'm at the top end of the 1100-1300 calories they give a day to lose 1lb a week, and that's pretty close to my reality. I lose a bit under a pound a week if I eat less than 1400 calories a day while also exercising and burning 300-500 calories at each session. With MFP, it would have me eat 1200 calories a day PLUS exercise calories, which is 1700/maintenance for me.

PAV8888

Da **kittens**? I would have to be at the TOP end of GAIN weight in order to actually maintain. The activity factors are baby felined and it asks nothing about exercise.

Spliner1969

I've been using iifym.com successfully for the last three years. Catch is that you have to be very honest with its entries, and if you say you do 60 minutes of intense exercise 4 times a week, you better do just that. Slacking even a little bit will cause your goals to suffer because it pre-calculates the calories you get daily over a 7-day period and includes your exercise (TDEE method). But, do what you say you do and it's done a great job for me.

collectingblues

PAV8888 wrote: »

Da **kittens**? I would have to be at the TOP end of GAIN weight in order to actually maintain. The activity factors are baby felined and it asks nothing about exercise.

Same here. Its "maintain" is what I eat to lose a pound or so a week.

Lounmoun

Calorie King says 1,150-1,350 for me to lose 1-2 lbs at light activity level and 1,100-1,300 at the sedentary level.
I think MFP has about 200 calories difference between activity levels.
Calorie Calculator on calculator.net says 1,171 to lose 1 lb a week and 671 to lose 2 lbs a week if I say I am sedentary and 1,415 and 915 if I were lightly active.
MFP calorie recommendations have worked okay for me. I think eating between 1,200-1,400 seems reasonable for me to lose .5 - 1 lb a week. I am uninterested in losing 2 lbs per week and do not believe eating below 1,200 calories would be healthy or sustainable loss as Calorie King states.

CharlieBeansmomTracey

its pretty close for me and is close to being what MFP gives me as well (thats counting in my exercise calories as I did a calculation with the data for a few months.)

Dani9585

It gave me 1150-1350 calories


No.

BlessedMom70

No way will I last on 1100-1300 cal/day. No thanks.