TDEE??

itsrainingoutside
itsrainingoutside Posts: 8 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone! So here's my story.. In recent months I had been eating much too little at around 1200 a day + cardio = not good. Of course I wasn't feeling great at this time, I was constantly hungry and tried and CONSTANTLY thinking about food. After a bit I research I was shocked to find that at my stats I should have been eating much more and still losing, and this is when I learned about BMR and TDEE. I have since upped my intake and started lifting and am now losing again in a healthy way (woo:) ).

So basically here's some questions:
Can your TDEE vary depending on how much you excersize in 1 particular week? For eg., if I workout 4x a week every single week but on one week I only do 2-3x, will my intake for that week be lower?
Do I eat at my TDEE everyday or only on the days that I workout, eating at my BMR on days that I don't?

Thanks everyone:)

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  • terbusha
    terbusha Posts: 1,483 Member
    If you are less active one week, your TDEE will be lower that week. What I do and what I recommend to people is to eat at a calorie level that allows you to drop 1-2 lbs/week. This assumes an average calorie burn from you getting in all of your workouts. This will be different for everyone, so you'll have to do some trial and error to figure it out. I'd start ~1600 cal/day. Hit this goal, along with your macros and getting in your workouts, for a week. If you lose 1-2 lbs, you're good to go. If you lose too much, increase your intake and repeat. If you don't lose enough, reduce your intake a bit and repeat. After a few weeks, you'll figure out what works for you in your situation.

    Allan

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