dont understand BMR help??

LauriesTrying2BeFit

ok so i have no idea how this BMR works according to the calculator mine is at 1442 a day so what does this mean?
how mant cals do i need to eat to loose weight?

thanks i feel so dumb lol

em9371

Your bmr is multiplied by your activity factor to give you your maintenance cals, think its 1.3 for sedentary, 1.5? for lightly active
which would give you 1874 / 2163 depending on which your activity level is. If you put your goal as maintain you should get pretty similar numbers. These are NET so you would need to eat back any exercise.
As you are almost at goal aim for 0.5 lb per week which is 250 per day off the above figures.
Hope this helps x

LauriesTrying2BeFit

thanks so i need to eat like 1200 to loose weight?

em9371

no thats way too low!
1874 / 2163 - 250 = 1624 / 1913 PLUS exercise cals.

What number does MFP give you if you select goal to maintain?

HonkyTonks

Your bmr is multiplied by your activity factor to give you your maintenance cals, think its 1.3 for sedentary, 1.5? for lightly active
which would give you 1874 / 2163 depending on which your activity level is. If you put your goal as maintain you should get pretty similar numbers. These are NET so you would need to eat back any exercise.
As you are almost at goal aim for 0.5 lb per week which is 250 per day off the above figures.
Hope this helps x

BMR = number of calories you burn DOING NOTHING. eg. pumping blood, digestion of food etc
That will be 1442.

TDEE = total daily energy expenditure. This is your BMR multiplied by your activity level. If you are sedentary, it will be your BMR x 1.2

When you set up MFP, it asks how much weight you want to lose and your current activity level. It then sets up a deficit for you (without excercise, if you've set your activity level to sedentary) and says 'this is how many calories to eat to achieve the deficit'.. Probably best to set it to around 1lb a week, that is an achievable goal, depending on how close you are to goal weight.

If you exercise, you get more calories to spend and still achieve the same deficit. So eating those calories back, you would have the same deficit as you would have had you not exercised at all.

Edit: okay, checked out your profile.. a better goal would be a half pound a week, as you are already close to goal weight anyway.

niknak2308

What HonkyTonks said...
This used to confuse me too and I used to think I should be eating less but I have found that the closer to goal I get the more cals I do actually need to eat to lose (odd as it sounds). From what I've read, a lot of people agree with the idea x