Some help, please?

ConsultingMockingJay

Can someone that knows more about this please help me with maintenance calories? I'm on 1,400 now and I know I could be eating more I just don't know how much. Thanks in advance.

Age: 18
Weight: 117
Height: 5'7 1/2

Commander_Keen

According to the following website, http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/




YOur info is this:
Your BMR is: 1344
CALORIES/DAY
Your TDEE is: 1613
CALORIES/DAY

If you want to loose weight, eat less then 1290

nikamar

According to the following website, http://iifym.com/tdee-calculator/




YOur info is this:
Your BMR is: 1344
CALORIES/DAY
Your TDEE is: 1613
CALORIES/DAY

If you want to loose weight, eat less then 1290

What in the world did you base that calculation on?
Even if TDEE calculators were that accurate, the main component of the calculation is an activity level- which she didn't state.

SLLRunner

Can someone that knows more about this please help me with maintenance calories? I'm on 1,400 now and I know I could be eating more I just don't know how much. Thanks in advance.

Age: 18
Weight: 117
Height: 5'7 1/2

Congratulations on your weight loss!

Besides your age, weight and height, how often do you exercise? What type of a job do you have (sedentary, lightly active, active)?

Have you set your MFP settings to maintain? If so, that will give you an approximately number of calories you should eat, plus your exercise calories. How much more calories you eat to maintain depends a lot on how many pounds you were set to lose at the end. For example, my goals were to lose a half pound a week the last fifteen pounds or so, thus my calorie increase was only 200 calories a day.

editorgrrl

Have you set your MFP settings to maintain? If so, that will give you an approximately number of calories you should eat, plus your exercise calories.

^This. Set your MFP goal to maintenance, and continue to eat back your exercise calories at the same rate as you did when you were losing.

If after two weeks you're still losing, start eating back 100% percent of your exercise calories (if you weren't before), or manually increase your calorie goal. But if you start gaining after the first two weeks of maintenance, start eating back a smaller percentage of your exercise calories.

It will take some trial & error like this to find the number of calories at which your weight stabilizes. You'll fluctuate slightly, and additional fine tuning may be required from time to time.

Congratulations on reaching your goal!

ConsultingMockingJay

Thanks so much for the advice!