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silverpen193
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Ok so I am freaking a little reading this book (Female Body Breakthrough - the other one hasnt arrived yet). It says to do your body weight x9 cals for low eating days and x15 for high cal days. Is this really x your weight in pounds? At the moment I am a massive 236lbs so that would be an insane 2124 for low cal days and 3540 for high cal days.... Am I working this out wrong?
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There are lots of different ways to work out your calorie intake (if I recall correctly, there is a choice of two different equations you can use in MFP).
An equation that only involves your weight sounds like a very general one and may not very accurate, especially for people are who overweight/ with higher body fat.
Other methods take into account your height, age, gender (and maybe frame size). If you are waiting on the NROLFW book, you will find a more detailed way to work out your calories in it. :happy:
Saying that, 2124 doesn't sound like a heap of calories to me. I am around 220lb and 5"10 and that would be about maintence on a non-work out day for me.
However 3540 does sound like quite a lot . Unless you were strenously active a large part of the day, you wouldn't burn the extra 1400 calories.
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I ignored the "strenuous" day number completely in the New Rules book.... as I take it, that is for a day when you worked a strenuous physical job AND did a hard workout. And 194, my numbers are 1842 on a non-workout day and 2127 on a workout day.
I put in your age and weight and came out with this:
For Fat Loss:
1578 on a non-workout day
1891 on a workout day
2204 on a strenuous work + workout day
For Maintenance:
1878 on a non-workout day
2191 on a workout day
2504 on a strenuous work + workout day0
