I am soooo confused

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,258 Member
    Bwilty7 wrote: »
    GOAL weight times 12 gives you your calorie goal.

    37%carbs/33%protein/30% healthy fats.

    As a universal? LOL, no. That would give me 1620 calories daily based on current body weight. I'm now in maintenance, up a few pounds because Winter, and losing slowly at 1850 before exercise. If I went by ultimate goal weight, your formula would give me 1400-1500: Serious underfueling.

    C=50%, P=20%, F=30% gets me as close to my gram goals as I can get by percent (I'm eating to 100g P, 50g F, who cares about carbs if calories and energy are OK).

    People should let MFP estimate their calorie goal (even though it, too, underestimates me), and test-drive that for 4-6 weeks, then adjust.
    Bwilty7 wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    Bwilty7 wrote: »
    GOAL weight times 12 gives you your calorie goal.

    37%carbs/33%protein/30% healthy fats.

    These kinds of generic formulas and blanket macro splits rarely work for the masses. It fails to take into consideration activity level and an adjustable rate of loss once nearer to goal.

    Your formula would have me at 1440 calories. Is that gross or net intake?

    My TDEE is around 2100 so this would have me losing faster than 1 lb/week. Do you think that’s adviseable?

    I disagree - the masses generally aren't out burning 7-800 calories over and above their BMR. You shouldn't have to adjust once you get.closer to your goal in this formula because you'll be closer to homeostasis.

    How do you calculate your TDEE and BMR? InBody Scan? Faulty online formulas? Blood test?

    I calculate my NEAT/TDEE by having logged my intake, exercise, and scale weight as accurately as practical for nearly 4 years. I don't care what my BMR is, particularly, except as a matter of idle curiousity. All I need to know is my current approximate TDEE, and be clear that losing fast would be crazy-stupid, and everything will be fine.

    The "let MFP guess and test for 4-6 weeks" method works fine. People who want to eat the same calories daily, rather than using the MFP "log and eat exercise calories separately" method should use a TDEE calculator instead, to get a starting estimate.

    That's all assuming (as your posts do) that a person wants to calorie count.

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