Did I calculate TDEE and my calorie goal correctly

ebgbjo
ebgbjo Posts: 821 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Ok, so I am losing weight just fine on 1200 calories (about 1/2 a week), but I explained to a friend about this TDEE stuff I have been seeing online and we would like to try the TDEE for 30 days to see what the results are like compared to the numbers we have been using from MFP.

I am 35 years old, 4' 11" and according to several body fat sites, I am at 28%.
My goal weight is 107 (may change when I get there).

I am going through the T25 workout program now which I do 4-5 times a week burning an average of 220 calories per workout. During the weeks where I only workout 4 days, I will two two workouts that day for a total of 50 minutes. When I am feeling froggy, I may hop on the treadmill for 30mins and burn about 285-290 calories, but this is rare. I know I need to get in more weight training, but I have no desire to go to the gym and only have 2lb, 5lb and 10lb dumbbell weights and have no idea what kind of routine to do with them.

After using a TDEE spreadsheet doc I found in these forums, this is what I came up with.

TDEE.jpg

Thank you.

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  • bokodasu
    bokodasu Posts: 629 Member
    Nope. As far as I can tell, you entered your activity as sedentary? Which you're not. TDEE is *Total* Daily Energy Expenditure, which means you include your exercise. You didn't put your current weight, which means I'm not using exact numbers here, but your TDEE at "lightly active" (assuming you have a desk job and aren't active outside the workouts you listed) should be closer to 1750, which would make your TDEE-20 around 1400.

    (And your TDEE-20 at "moderately active" would be closer to 1580. Probably you're somewhere between those two numbers.)
  • ebgbjo
    ebgbjo Posts: 821 Member
    No, I didn't put it as sedentary. I put it as lightly active as my workouts only total 2 hours a week.
  • ebgbjo
    ebgbjo Posts: 821 Member
    Oh sorry. I forgot about my current weight. Current weight is 117lbs. Besides doing T25 throughout the week, I honestly don't do much, besides house cleaning. I am a SAHM and an online college student.

    Should I put 1400 or 1500 calories for my MFP goal?
  • ebgbjo
    ebgbjo Posts: 821 Member
    *bump* for help

    Thanks :)
  • ebgbjo
    ebgbjo Posts: 821 Member
    Final bump to see if I can get some assistance with this TDEE stuff and if I have set my calories correctly for the next 30 days (trial run)

    Thanks
  • scottaworley
    scottaworley Posts: 871 Member
    According to http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/ you should be eating more like 1350 if your body fat estimation is correct. What have you been doing to measure your body fat?
  • ebgbjo
    ebgbjo Posts: 821 Member
    According to http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/ you should be eating more like 1350 if your body fat estimation is correct. What have you been doing to measure your body fat?


    I just used several of the body fat calculator sites. I have been searching all over Massachusetts and Rhode Island where I can get an accurate reading, but haven't had much luck. I do not have a gym membership and when I did, the "trainer" there only had a caliper and only tested in one site on body. Not very accurate if you ask me.
  • scottaworley
    scottaworley Posts: 871 Member
    According to http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/ you should be eating more like 1350 if your body fat estimation is correct. What have you been doing to measure your body fat?


    I just used several of the body fat calculator sites. I have been searching all over Massachusetts and Rhode Island where I can get an accurate reading, but haven't had much luck. I do not have a gym membership and when I did, the "trainer" there only had a caliper and only tested in one site on body. Not very accurate if you ask me.

    I like the caliper. It is more accurate than a scale or measuring tape, and it is the most accurate method I have found that you can do yourself. I would buy one from Amazon (15 bucks) and test multiple sites on your body. There are a few good websites or apps that you can plug your numbers into and that will also tell you where to test.
    After that go back to http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/ and plug your numbers in and eat that :)
  • ebgbjo
    ebgbjo Posts: 821 Member
    Ok, thank you. I may have a caliper from one of my Beachbody workouts. I just am not sure how to properly use it.
  • scottaworley
    scottaworley Posts: 871 Member
    Ok, thank you. I may have a caliper from one of my Beachbody workouts. I just am not sure how to properly use it.

    Practice makes perfect :). Take several readings the first few times and average them.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

    Try this thread from this group http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/10118-eat-train-progress

    basically you take calories consumed+calories from weight lost (lbs lost*3500)=total/#days to loose weight=TDEE

    Then to remain at a deficet subtract a percentage based on how fast you want to loose.

    For me it was

    75353(total eaten)+17500(5lbs lost)=92853/56(over 8 weeks)=1658
  • ebgbjo
    ebgbjo Posts: 821 Member
    Thank you for the links, Stephanie. I will check them out.

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