Current Weight x 10 for weight loss?

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  • Louise1247
    Louise1247 Posts: 670 Member
    oh wow, 149lbs = 1490 kcal!! Amazing really!
  • myfitnessnmhoy
    myfitnessnmhoy Posts: 2,105 Member
    The reason I bring this up, is because I see so many posts on here about figuring out your BMR, then figuring out your TDEE, then figuring out your exercise calories, subtract 10% for 1 pound, subtract 20% for 2 pounds, blah blah blah. It confuses so many people. Post after post about how many calories people should be eating.

    Weight multiplied by 10 is so much easier.

    Entering your numbers into MFP's handy-dandy calculator is even easier, and will come up with similar numbers, but is overall probably more accurate.
  • christakersey
    christakersey Posts: 29
    I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work for me. I'd have to be eating 1870 and I would definitely gain weight that way.
  • caraiselite
    caraiselite Posts: 2,631 Member
    i don't count calories, but this makes sense.

    maybe at my goal weight i'll do this!
  • christakersey
    christakersey Posts: 29
    I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work for me. I'd have to be eating 1870 and I would definitely gain weight that way.
  • gomisskellygo
    gomisskellygo Posts: 635 Member
    I don't think this works for everyone. I'm 105 lbs, and if I ate 1050 calories a day, I'd starve. I lose weight when I eat between 1200 and 1400 calories a day. To maintain I need to eat about 1500 or 1600.

    At 105lbs unless you are 3 feet tall, you shouldn't be losing weight, I would imagine.
  • wild_wild_life
    wild_wild_life Posts: 1,334 Member
    It doesn't take into account activity level obviously which is a huge part of the TDEE.

    Interesting how for some it is an underestimation and some it is an overestimation. I am 115 lbs and 1150 is approximately half of my maintenance requirement. Yikes.
  • scrapatak
    scrapatak Posts: 5 Member
    I don't eat anywhere close to this. I weigh 225, eat between 1200-1350 calories and my net is rarely over 500.
  • DB_1106
    DB_1106 Posts: 154 Member
    I don't eat anywhere close to this. I weigh 225, eat between 1200-1350 calories and my net is rarely over 500.

    How did you come up with those numbers? The seem really low.
  • AlexanderK1994
    AlexanderK1994 Posts: 243 Member
    According to my doctor, weight x 10 is what you use to maintain, not lose. Based on my own experience I would have to agree with him. Based on what MFP is giving me in calories and my current weight - to lose 2 lbs per week I would need to calculate weight x 6.5. I believe that the BMR and TDEE calculations are going to work better in the long run.

    My goal is 110, so when I reach it it'd be 1100 cals/day. I'd probably still lose on that...
  • bigjax1
    bigjax1 Posts: 56 Member
    this is an old method ...used by my grandfather when he worked in a psychiatric hospital where he ran a nutrition clinic (verty fat or overly thin patients were refered to him... his results were good(1949-1976)

    the method he used was weight x 10 for sedentiary
    weight x13 for active
    weight x15 for very active (used in patients that needed to gain weight...but +250 per half pound needed to gain)

    this gave him his basic levels then he knocked off 250 cals per half pound the patient need to lose per week

    other tactics he used were patients only saw the scale reading on referal... after that they had to stand backwards
    portion size was important and patients (staff used the service too) had 6 small meals aday

    if a patient came weighing 350lb they would start their diet on 3200 calories aday .. decreasing in increments over time .. no shock to the patient

    I remember one lady .. fattest one he ever saw ... had to take her to the abattor as the scales hosptial scales did not go that high and she started on 4500 cals aday for months....slowly dropping 150 off at set points in time untill she became with in the normal banding.. if I remember right it took about 3 years to get her from 400lb and something, down to 150ish

    loved the old bugger but he had a way with words that could sting..... "bloody hell lass your packing it on..." "carry on like that and you'll look like old Mable" mable being the really fat lady
  • carld256
    carld256 Posts: 855 Member
    Just forget all the formulas and rules. Put accurate information into MFP and follow what it says. It works.
  • fabafter5
    fabafter5 Posts: 200 Member
    My understanding is it's current weight times 12. Then subtract 250 for 1/2 pound per week weight loss, 500 for a pound, and so on. I am sure current times 10 is pretty close.

    This is almost spot on for me.

    weight 183

    183 X 12= 2196
    - 500 for 1lb loss a week = 1696

    My trainer suggests that I eat 1800 cals a day. I workout 5-6 days a week. I feel good and reach all of my macros at 1600-1680 cals a day.

    If I were sedentary I think it would be too many calories.
  • MrsSorenson
    MrsSorenson Posts: 450 Member
    I would say that is high! My current weight is 243 and my calorie goals are 1330 a day.. so if I went up to 2430 a day! I'd gain a bunch of weight! Stick to the MFP plan, IT WORKS!
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    It's a generalization and doesn't account for level of activity. I think it's an approximation, but for me, it's way under. Says I should eat 1770. I am currently at 2400 including my level of activity. So, just like any generaliztion, be careful. It's better to be educated and understand what you are doing. BMR and TDEE and cutting 10% or whatever is very, very simple and easy and can be explained in less than 2 minutes. Or in a paragraph or two.

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