Calorie allowance

bkatsonis

If you use your TDEE to determine calories you're allotted each day, then are you still at a deficit if you consume those? I used a TDEE calculator, listed my stats and that I wanted to "cut" or lose weight to come up with the number of calories per day. So if I were to consume that full amount (1370) does that still assume I am in a deficit or do I need to cut?

Hopefully this makes sense.. I can't remember if by using your TDEE that it's already accounting for your minimum deficit to lose weight.

lynn_glenmont

Your question would be better addressed to the specific site that calculated your TDEE and gave you the calorie recommendation. We know it wasn't this site, because MFP uses NEAT, not TDEE.

Generally I would expect a calorie recommendation to be based on your goal if the site asked you for your goal, and in any case, the large majority of adult human beings would be in a calorie deficit at 1370 kcal/day, especially if they actually need to lose weight.

sbarkston

With little exercise 1370 should be fine ..
0.5 to 1lb a week I would think .. if you exercise you could increase this

cmriverside

What Lynn said.

I just used Myfitnesspal's numbers...

Are you really small and or completely Sedentary? Did you choose an aggressive weight loss goal? Because 1370 is pretty low...

sijomial

Go back to whatever TDEE site you used and instead of asking it to take a cut ask it to give you your weight maintenance calories. Then any number under that will be a calorie deficit.

As you didn't tell people how much of a cut you selected there's no way of knowing what size of deficit 1370 gives you.
You also haven't said anything about yourself so there's no context on the number - you could be male, very big, very active or female, very small and very sedentary.

But please use the tools you select in the way they are designed and don't undercut the numbers given or it's a bit pointless selecting a tool in the first place.

lynn_glenmont

sbarkston wrote: »

With little exercise 1370 should be fine ..
0.5 to 1lb a week I would think .. if you exercise you could increase this

With zero information about the OP (weight, height, gender, age, activity level), you have no way of judging that this is a 0.5 to 1 lb a week deficit. For vast numbers of people, this would be a 2 lb a week or more deficit.