What is TDEE method?

jaymikhail69
jaymikhail69 Posts: 40 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I keep seeing things about it, is it a better method than calorie deficit?

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  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    It's still about a calorie deficit -

    TDEE = total daily energy expenditure, your BMR plus your daily activity and exercise - basically the number of calories you burn in a 24 hour period based on your age, height, weight, and activities.

    With the TDEE method, you eat in between your BMR and TDEE, generally taking a cut of 10-20% from the TDEE number to create the deficit, and eat that number every day. With this method you do not eat back exercise cals.

    Really it's close to MFP if you have your loss goal set realistically and eat back your exercise cals, the numbers come out pretty close.
  • BillyWeaver1234
    BillyWeaver1234 Posts: 27
    I'm confused about this is as well.

    I am 5'8 and 215 pounds. Probably about 30 pounds overweight? Give or take. My tdee was like 2675 and bmr was around 1975. So I still need to eat 1975 calories if I'm trying to lose weight ? (I'm lifting and doing cardio) I know weight loss is not instant but this still seems like a high number of calories to eat when tying to lose weight?

    Someone care to clarify/explain further ?
  • j6o4
    j6o4 Posts: 871 Member
    I'm confused about this is as well.

    I am 5'8 and 215 pounds. Probably about 30 pounds overweight? Give or take. My tdee was like 2675 and bmr was around 1975. So I still need to eat 1975 calories if I'm trying to lose weight ? (I'm lifting and doing cardio) I know weight loss is not instant but this still seems like a high number of calories to eat when tying to lose weight?

    Someone care to clarify/explain further ?

    For a guy that's not a lot of calories, especially if your an active guy.
  • BillyWeaver1234
    BillyWeaver1234 Posts: 27
    I'm confused about this is as well.

    I am 5'8 and 215 pounds. Probably about 30 pounds overweight? Give or take. My tdee was like 2675 and bmr was around 1975. So I still need to eat 1975 calories if I'm trying to lose weight ? (I'm lifting and doing cardio) I know weight loss is not instant but this still seems like a high number of calories to eat when tying to lose weight?

    Someone care to clarify/explain further ?

    For a guy that's not a lot of calories, especially if your an active guy.

    Even when trying to lose fat? Or 30 pounds? Sorry for my ignorance on the subject I just sort of new to all of this
  • RaggedyPond
    RaggedyPond Posts: 1,487 Member
    They are basically the same.
  • j6o4
    j6o4 Posts: 871 Member
    I'm confused about this is as well.

    I am 5'8 and 215 pounds. Probably about 30 pounds overweight? Give or take. My tdee was like 2675 and bmr was around 1975. So I still need to eat 1975 calories if I'm trying to lose weight ? (I'm lifting and doing cardio) I know weight loss is not instant but this still seems like a high number of calories to eat when tying to lose weight?

    Someone care to clarify/explain further ?

    For a guy that's not a lot of calories, especially if your an active guy.

    Even when trying to lose fat? Or 30 pounds? Sorry for my ignorance on the subject I just sort of new to all of this

    I heard somewhere that 1200 is minimum for females and for males it's 1800, personally I wouldn't want to go below 2200 but if i have to, 2000 is the lowest I'm willing to go. Right now im 2 weeks into my cut and getting about 3050 down from 3500 and lost about 2 pounds so fare. I dont cut my calories too drastically because im trying to retain as much muscle as possible during my cut.

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