Calories needed

hollydohrman

I read through all the stickys about a month ago, calculated my cut TDEE and off I went. My calculations included a 10% increase to the TDEE number for digestion. When I read through the information again and the digestion part of the calculation is gone. So it looks like I've been eating too many calories.

Info:
Age - 43
Weight - 132 (before I increased calories, today it was 142)
Height - 5'6"

BMR - 1330

Cut TDEE (15%) - 1950
I chose 5/6 hours per week of exercise. I am about 1/2 way through P90x doubles routine.

Cut TDEE (15% with digestion added in) - 2144

The difference is almost 200 calories per day. Should I have included the 10% addition for digestion?

I thought I was getting this but now I'm confused.

Raynn1

I never paid attention to the digestion part. I eat my cut value.. whatever it was on the scooby site..

tangiesharp

I never paid attention to the digestion part. I eat my cut value.. whatever it was on the scooby site..

Same here.

hollydohrman

That means I've been eating too many calories for the last three weeks.

tangiesharp

That means I've been eating too many calories for the last three weeks.

Sorry, but you're still at a deficit to TDEE which is the main thing. Hang in there.

hollydohrman

Thanks for bringing me back to reality. To many years of eating very little is a hard habit to break.