BMR and daily calorie allowance

suziethomas6062

I’ve just used the BMR calculator to see what my BMR is per day, but the daily calorie allowance. The
app is giving me to eat is far higher, why is this please?

Lietchi

Because your BMR is what you burn just being alive.
Your actual calorie needs are your BMR +TEF (calories burned to digest food) +any activity from regular life and exercise.
BMR is not a useful number directly to calculate your calorie goal for weight loss.

cmriverside

Here's the longer myfitnesspal explanation:

https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032625391-How-does-MyFitnessPal-calculate-my-initial-goals