BMR Query!

xDramaQueen995x
xDramaQueen995x Posts: 48 Member
edited 7:55AM in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone, I’m 23, 5’3 and 94.5 kg. I’m trying to lose some more weight, I’ve gained back 10 lbs or so since last year. I restarted my diet in September and have just been maintaining. I checked my BMR, it says I should have 1631 cals a day. I was wondering since I exercise six days a week, I usually burn 500 cals a day, so how many cals should I be eating per day? Instead of maintaining I want to lose! Also, jeans I bought last year that didn’t fit NOW fit, which is weird seeing as I haven’t lost on the scales. Please help! :)

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  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,130 Member
    The app will tell you how much to eat if you've filled in your stats correctly and that includes the deficit required to lose weight, you then log or sync your exercise and eat calories back (usually 50% or more depending on how conservative your method of determining them is)

    Your BMR is not how many calories you should have per day, it's how many calories you burn when your body is just carrying out the basic functions of being alive.

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  • Runaroundafieldx2
    Runaroundafieldx2 Posts: 233 Member
    If you are maintaining now then you just need to drop 500 or so calories a day.

  • xDramaQueen995x
    xDramaQueen995x Posts: 48 Member
    Deviette wrote: »
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    Also, jeans I bought last year that didn’t fit NOW fit, which is weird seeing as I haven’t lost on the scales.
    This does not sound weird at all. As you've been exercising and eating at maintenance, it sounds like you've been unintentionally recomping.

    However, in answer to your question:
    BMR is the amount of calories that you'd burn if you were in a coma. It doesn't take into account any of the day to day activity your do. Or your intentional exercise.

    Plug your data into MFP. How many calories does it tell you to eat? Add in your intentional exercise on top of this number and you should aim to eat back 50-70% of these calories.

    Thank you! At the moment it says 1,580 on my diary. I set my thing to the second option which I think is lightly active? Whichever the one above sedentary is. I’m an office worker but I do my exercise every day, I’m just struggling to see what I should be eating to lose weight! Other sites said 1,800 cals but that seems very high.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,130 Member
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    Deviette wrote: »
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    Also, jeans I bought last year that didn’t fit NOW fit, which is weird seeing as I haven’t lost on the scales.
    This does not sound weird at all. As you've been exercising and eating at maintenance, it sounds like you've been unintentionally recomping.

    However, in answer to your question:
    BMR is the amount of calories that you'd burn if you were in a coma. It doesn't take into account any of the day to day activity your do. Or your intentional exercise.

    Plug your data into MFP. How many calories does it tell you to eat? Add in your intentional exercise on top of this number and you should aim to eat back 50-70% of these calories.

    Thank you! At the moment it says 1,580 on my diary. I set my thing to the second option which I think is lightly active? Whichever the one above sedentary is. I’m an office worker but I do my exercise every day, I’m just struggling to see what I should be eating to lose weight! Other sites said 1,800 cals but that seems very high.

    Your activity level is not your exercise, it's based only on your non-exercise activity, if you're pretty sedentary and counting your exercise into your activity level and then logging it as well you're double logging it.
  • xDramaQueen995x
    xDramaQueen995x Posts: 48 Member
    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    The app will tell you how much to eat if you've filled in your stats correctly and that includes the deficit required to lose weight, you then log or sync your exercise and eat calories back (usually 50% or more depending on how conservative your method of determining them is)

    Your BMR is not how many calories you should have per day, it's how many calories you burn when your body is just carrying out the basic functions of being alive.

    fk9yt5khii11.jpg



    Thank you for this, my diary says 1,580 because I set to lightly active and 0.5 a week. Should I change it to sedentary if I’m adding my calories on from exercising after? I lost this weight so fast two years ago and I looked back at my diary for then, I was on around 1,300 cals a day, with exercise too!
  • xDramaQueen995x
    xDramaQueen995x Posts: 48 Member
    Oops, 1.5 not 0.5!
  • xDramaQueen995x
    xDramaQueen995x Posts: 48 Member
    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    Deviette wrote: »
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    Also, jeans I bought last year that didn’t fit NOW fit, which is weird seeing as I haven’t lost on the scales.
    This does not sound weird at all. As you've been exercising and eating at maintenance, it sounds like you've been unintentionally recomping.

    However, in answer to your question:
    BMR is the amount of calories that you'd burn if you were in a coma. It doesn't take into account any of the day to day activity your do. Or your intentional exercise.

    Plug your data into MFP. How many calories does it tell you to eat? Add in your intentional exercise on top of this number and you should aim to eat back 50-70% of these calories.

    Thank you! At the moment it says 1,580 on my diary. I set my thing to the second option which I think is lightly active? Whichever the one above sedentary is. I’m an office worker but I do my exercise every day, I’m just struggling to see what I should be eating to lose weight! Other sites said 1,800 cals but that seems very high.

    Your activity level is not your exercise, it's based only on your non-exercise activity, if you're pretty sedentary and counting your exercise into your activity level and then logging it as well you're double logging it.

    Thank you, I was doing this a few weeks ago. It was set to very active! so I have it as lightly, 1.5 pounds a week to lose and it’s saying 1580 cals. I log all my exercise calories separately too. Do you think I need to increase my calories?
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,130 Member
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    The app will tell you how much to eat if you've filled in your stats correctly and that includes the deficit required to lose weight, you then log or sync your exercise and eat calories back (usually 50% or more depending on how conservative your method of determining them is)

    Your BMR is not how many calories you should have per day, it's how many calories you burn when your body is just carrying out the basic functions of being alive.

    Thank you for this, my diary says 1,580 because I set to lightly active and 0.5 a week. Should I change it to sedentary if I’m adding my calories on from exercising after? I lost this weight so fast two years ago and I looked back at my diary for then, I was on around 1,300 cals a day, with exercise too!

    Yes if you're logging exercise separately then set yourself to sedentary (Sedentary accounts for approximately 3000 steps per day of non-exercise activity).

    What are you doing as exercise to burn 500 calories? Between the incorrect activity level and possibly overestimating your calorie burns you are probably just eating to maintenance.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,130 Member
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    Deviette wrote: »
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    Also, jeans I bought last year that didn’t fit NOW fit, which is weird seeing as I haven’t lost on the scales.
    This does not sound weird at all. As you've been exercising and eating at maintenance, it sounds like you've been unintentionally recomping.

    However, in answer to your question:
    BMR is the amount of calories that you'd burn if you were in a coma. It doesn't take into account any of the day to day activity your do. Or your intentional exercise.

    Plug your data into MFP. How many calories does it tell you to eat? Add in your intentional exercise on top of this number and you should aim to eat back 50-70% of these calories.

    Thank you! At the moment it says 1,580 on my diary. I set my thing to the second option which I think is lightly active? Whichever the one above sedentary is. I’m an office worker but I do my exercise every day, I’m just struggling to see what I should be eating to lose weight! Other sites said 1,800 cals but that seems very high.

    Your activity level is not your exercise, it's based only on your non-exercise activity, if you're pretty sedentary and counting your exercise into your activity level and then logging it as well you're double logging it.

    Thank you, I was doing this a few weeks ago. It was set to very active! so I have it as lightly, 1.5 pounds a week to lose and it’s saying 1580 cals. I log all my exercise calories separately too. Do you think I need to increase my calories?

    No because you're not currently losing weight, if you're not losing weight and want to then eating more is never the answer.
  • xDramaQueen995x
    xDramaQueen995x Posts: 48 Member
    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    Deviette wrote: »
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    Also, jeans I bought last year that didn’t fit NOW fit, which is weird seeing as I haven’t lost on the scales.
    This does not sound weird at all. As you've been exercising and eating at maintenance, it sounds like you've been unintentionally recomping.

    However, in answer to your question:
    BMR is the amount of calories that you'd burn if you were in a coma. It doesn't take into account any of the day to day activity your do. Or your intentional exercise.

    Plug your data into MFP. How many calories does it tell you to eat? Add in your intentional exercise on top of this number and you should aim to eat back 50-70% of these calories.

    Thank you! At the moment it says 1,580 on my diary. I set my thing to the second option which I think is lightly active? Whichever the one above sedentary is. I’m an office worker but I do my exercise every day, I’m just struggling to see what I should be eating to lose weight! Other sites said 1,800 cals but that seems very high.

    Your activity level is not your exercise, it's based only on your non-exercise activity, if you're pretty sedentary and counting your exercise into your activity level and then logging it as well you're double logging it.

    Thank you, I was doing this a few weeks ago. It was set to very active! so I have it as lightly, 1.5 pounds a week to lose and it’s saying 1580 cals. I log all my exercise calories separately too. Do you think I need to increase my calories?

    No because you're not currently losing weight, if you're not losing weight and want to then eating more is never the answer.

    Thankyou, someone told me to eat more calories! They said to eat 1,800 or so!
    I go off my Apple Watch for my calories. I do 2 miles on my treadmill every day and I do my lunch bag, then my watch does have around 200 cals burned a day from walking around work and doing filing etc and walking to and from work
  • Deviette
    Deviette Posts: 978 Member
    edited November 2018
    Ah never mind, it's been covered already
  • xDramaQueen995x
    xDramaQueen995x Posts: 48 Member
    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    tinkerbellang83 wrote: »
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    Deviette wrote: »
    xDramaQueen995x wrote: »
    Also, jeans I bought last year that didn’t fit NOW fit, which is weird seeing as I haven’t lost on the scales.
    This does not sound weird at all. As you've been exercising and eating at maintenance, it sounds like you've been unintentionally recomping.

    However, in answer to your question:
    BMR is the amount of calories that you'd burn if you were in a coma. It doesn't take into account any of the day to day activity your do. Or your intentional exercise.

    Plug your data into MFP. How many calories does it tell you to eat? Add in your intentional exercise on top of this number and you should aim to eat back 50-70% of these calories.

    Thank you! At the moment it says 1,580 on my diary. I set my thing to the second option which I think is lightly active? Whichever the one above sedentary is. I’m an office worker but I do my exercise every day, I’m just struggling to see what I should be eating to lose weight! Other sites said 1,800 cals but that seems very high.

    Your activity level is not your exercise, it's based only on your non-exercise activity, if you're pretty sedentary and counting your exercise into your activity level and then logging it as well you're double logging it.

    Thank you, I was doing this a few weeks ago. It was set to very active! so I have it as lightly, 1.5 pounds a week to lose and it’s saying 1580 cals. I log all my exercise calories separately too. Do you think I need to increase my calories?

    No because you're not currently losing weight, if you're not losing weight and want to then eating more is never the answer.

    Just set it to sedentary now, it’s put me to just over 1,300 which does seem a bit more accurate!
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