Natural Calorie Burn

madC6
madC6 Posts: 9 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I read that a natural daily calorie burn for men is between 2,000 - 2,200 per day. When I read that I started thinking about the formula I've been following and wanted to see if my head was screwed on straight. If I'm thinking through this correctly, if my Daily Target to date has been 1,700 calories, I'm actually starting in the Negative for the day w/o lifting a finger? To keep this a simple conversatoin we'll leave it at Maintenance Days.

Now, my formula has been working (am down 35 lbs since December), but now that I'd like to start maintaining, I wanted to make sure that my adjustments are accurate. Actually, to be quite honest, I'm at a point where I'm finding it difficult to stop losing weight. It's easy enough to set my Daily higher, but I wanted to factor in the Natural Burn if that is something I should be considering at this point.

Any feedback is welcome.

Thanks.

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  • mcarter99
    mcarter99 Posts: 1,666 Member
    I'm not really sure what you mean by 'natural burn'. Average burn for men? Average before workouts? BMR?

    To get an estimate for maintenance I would estimate your own total daily burn on average and eat that much. You should be able to do that based on how much you've lost and at what rate. If you're losing on average 2 lbs/week, you're eating at around a 1000 calorie/day deficit and should add 1000 to eat 1800. If you keep losing, add more.

    Or if you want start eating at 2000 or 2200 and if you gain, subtract.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    your natural Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) or calorie burn may well be around the 2000 mark, for example with a 1650 BMR and 20% increase over that for sedentary.

    If you eat 2000 you should maintain weight, if not then that isn't your TDEE and you should adjust accordingly.
  • rainbowbow
    rainbowbow Posts: 7,490 Member
    Im assuming you mean your BMR and your TDEE.

    You can use the BMR calculator under mfp's tools section. That is how many calories a day your body would burn if you did nothing but laid in bed all day or were in a comatose state.

    Then multiple that by your activity level-
    1.2 for sedentary
    1.3 for lightly active
    1.4 for active
    1.5 for very active

    Then you have your TDEE. This is the amount of calories it takes to maintain your current weight.

    Best of luck!
  • Goal_Line
    Goal_Line Posts: 474 Member
    BMR (Basic Metabolic Rate) will vary based on your size. There is no one number. Google Harris-Benedict. This is a method of computing your BMR. The is some math involved but it will give you an estimate based on your specifics. There are also tons of websites that will do the math for you.
  • madC6
    madC6 Posts: 9 Member
    Great, exactly the information I was looking for.

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