BMR... How accurate is it?

allanrjudge
allanrjudge Posts: 84 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've just calculated my BMR... I'm 213 lbs (i've recently lost a stone but seem to have hit a plateau, i'm wondering if it's because i'm not eating enough) i'm 28 and i'm 5ft11.

My BMR came out at 2104.29 I multiplied that by 1.725 because i'm doing P90x3 and it's come out at : 3629.90025 and then take 1,000 off to create a calorie deficit is: 2629.90025

How am I going to lose weight by consuming 2629 calories? That seems like way too much to me.

For example todays workout is The Challenge (P90x3), i'll burn around 400 calories on that (I use a Polar HRM), i've gone through a bad stage of depression which I wont go into, but that's caused me to be very sedentary outside of P90x... I know you burn calories when you're just lying down, but how am I going to burn more than I consume if i'm consuming 2629 calories?

I just don't get that.

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  • mymodernbabylon
    mymodernbabylon Posts: 1,038 Member
    I think you may have BMR and TDEE confused. Have you looked at the Scooby Workshop calculator?

    By the way, I'm a 45 yr old, 5'6", 148 lb woman and I eat over 2000 calories for maintenance so I'm sure you can eat quite a lot and lose.

    http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

    Figure out TDEE and subtract 15% for a good solid deficit that will help you retain more of you muscle and still lose weight.
  • allanrjudge
    allanrjudge Posts: 84 Member
    Thank you for the reply.

    I've input my info on that calculator and I don't understand it, i'm a complete novice with all this.

    It does say my TDEE is 3260 so if I take 1,000 of that it's 2260. Should I eat that many calories daily?

    Why do people get put on 1500/1800 calorie diets when they want to lose weight? You never hear of people being put on 2200 calorie diets for weight loss.

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