My calorie intake is less than my BMR should I change?

ToxicTinkerbell

Thank you for simplifying this. Where does exercise come in though? Woud you eat the calories burned through exercise?

If your BMR is 1440, and you are Sedentary (lowest option) then your Daily Caloric Expenditure is 1728. 1 lb/week would be 1228, half pound per week would be 1478.

BMR is not Daily Calorie Burn. Are you mixing the two up?

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BMR = Basal Metabolic Rate
TDEE = Total Daily Energy Expenditure (also called Maintenance calories)
Calorie = (unit of measurement), a unit of energy or heat variously defined. In nutrition terms, the word calorie is commonly used to refer to a unit of food energy. (The word calorie is used instead of the more precise scientific term kilocalorie.)

BMR and TDEE are two different things..

BMR is the amount of energy (calories) your body needs to function in a coma.

TDEE is the amount of energy (calories) that your body actually uses (burns) each day by living your life.

Eating less than your TDEE will give you a calorie deficit and you will lose weight.

Eat less than your BMR and you risk slowing your metabolism down; making it that much harder to continue to lose weight and that much more likely that you will regain that weight when you get to maintenance.

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