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angv22908

I recently started the body weight times 12 for calorie deficit lifestyle! I did keto for 3 years, lost 130 lbs and ended up malnourished. Couldn’t find balance since and gained 30 lbs. middle age menopause has also had her freaking hands in my weight struggle. I haven’t seen the scale move yet, but I am down a total of 4.5 inches of body fat! I’ll take it! Anyone else using this lifestyle?

BarbaraHelen2013

I’ve not come across the method you mention but I imagine it consists of multiplying your weight in pounds by 12 and eating that many calories? Is that supposed to have a deficit built in or do you subtract your deficit from the total?

The maths for me would not work for weight loss but it did spit out a number that’s pretty much my maintenance figure. 🤷‍♀️

Also my grasp of maths is not great but does that formula actually suggest that everyone burns only 12 calories per pound of bodyweight per day? Or have I got my maths brain in a complete knot? 🤷‍♀️

Ddsb11

BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »

I’ve not come across the method you mention but I imagine it consists of multiplying your weight in pounds by 12 and eating that many calories? Is that supposed to have a deficit built in or do you subtract your deficit from the total?

The maths for me would not work for weight loss but it did spit out a number that’s pretty much my maintenance figure. 🤷‍♀️

Also my grasp of maths is not great but does that formula actually suggest that everyone burns only 12 calories per pound of bodyweight per day? Or have I got my maths brain in a complete knot? 🤷‍♀️

That’s my maintenance calories as well.

Also, maybe it’s just me but I’m not a fan of programs. Been there done that. My lifestyle doesn’t fit in a box so eating anything I want but in a calorie deficit and weighing my food is perfect for me.

sijomial

Bodyweight X 12 is just an amazingly rough starting point to set your calories and to be honest there's far better methods that will take your height, gender, age, activity and exercise into account.

Bodyweight x 12 for a 200lb, tall, lean, fit, young, high activity, big volume exerciser with 5lbs to lose and a 200lb 5', elderly, sedentary, non-exerciser with 100lbs to lose would get the same calories.

It will work out for some and be miles off for many, like me.

Not seeing where the lifestyle part comes from OP? Has someone adopted the name for a commercial diet plan?

lgfrie

hmm never heard of this before. But using my trusty calculator, my break-even calories are 10.2 x my weight, and my target calorie deficit to lose 1 lb/week is 8.2 x my weight. So 12 seems kinda high. If it's working, it's working, but why not stop by the Goals tab above in MFP and see what it gives you for calories when you tell it your weight, height, gender, goal, etc. The MFP Goals tool has an excellent track record for most people of coming up with the right # of calories to eat. For me the Goals tool is +/- 1 % of actual weight loss when I follow their calorie recommendation.

PAV8888

Are you guys counting these multipliers including activity and exercise?

Weight *10 is supposed to be a BMR estimate for most; weight *12 to 13 a sedentary maintenance.

And, of course, it would be terribly off and too large of a deficit for someone who is very active...

Before computers such simple formulas would give quick estimateswithout having to look up tables or work through BMR prediction formulas.... these days there exist sites such as sail rabbit and even mfp that can be tapped for slightly better starting points