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My TDEE is too low

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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Ya, but there are so many easy places to start to get a better estimate from the get-go.

    Same way on food side it's recommended to weigh, not measure volume of food - because it's a best estimate, even if labels can be upwards of 20% off.

    The rough ballpark is useful for others when they see someone's claim of TDEE to confirm they didn't like totally screw up somewhere in their math.
    But no need to spend 4-6 weeks actually eating such a ballpark figure to get ballpark results. Especially from those huge ballpark franks.

    OP - MFP based on newer WHO studies than the 1919 Harris study those TDEE calc's come from found Sedentary at 1.25 x BMR.
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