TDEE help please!

maura5880

So, if I set my TDEE (using the scooby website) at sedentary, I get 1413.
If I say lightly active, I get 1619.

Would it make sense to eat at 1413 on days I don't workout, and the higher amount on days I do? Typically I work out 4-5 days a week. My workouts are generally 2-3 miles of jogging for cardio & then lifting. I do an upper & lower body split.

Currently, on days I don't work out I try to stay around 1200.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

FindingAmy77

okay I am no expert so let me say that first BUT: I have done a lot of research into this exact same question for myself. It is recommended that I eat almost the same as you stated but I go up and down and still lose weight. it is recommended from the tdee sites that you eat the 1619 everyday (because of the days you are exercising will even that out) but I feel that the days I don't exercise I can safely drop a few hundred off of that. That is my newest plan anyways. I currently set my calories to 1400 for mfp but on days I exercise more and feel more hungry I eat more. THis is my experience with this lately anyways but if you step up your workouts at all then make sure you are eating enough. I found before I hurt my foot and had to take it easy, I was going hard on my exercising and actually stopped losing weight until I started eating more caloreis... once I ate more each day my weighloss started up again. I just play it by ear and see how the current plan I am on is working for me. If its working I stick with it, if I have started stalling again on the scale and measurements then I tweek it again. that is me anyways. oh edit: I don't suggest you go below 1400 since you do exercise that much. 1200 is too low. you will be too hungry and may lose muscle according to many sites I have seen.