BMR Question

radiantlybelle
radiantlybelle Posts: 39
in Health and Weight Loss
My BMR is 1,498.
Is that what I have to eat on a daily to lose weight while working out vigorously? Or stick to MFP's 1200 cal?
I'm confused.

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  • radiantlybelle
    radiantlybelle Posts: 39
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  • mcarter99
    mcarter99 Posts: 1,666 Member
    You can lose weight at either. Neither is dangerous. If your MFP rec does not include exercise, you may want to add that back or add back some of it.

    It's much easier to me to estimate your TOTAL daily expenditure including exercise and subtract 250-1000 calories per day, depending on how fast you want to lose. Don't go below 1200 of food intake.

    Good luck!
  • Jenjaz1910
    Jenjaz1910 Posts: 433 Member
    Your BMR is the MINIMUM you should NET each day! For example if you burn 300 cals doing a workout you'd eat them back so you've eaten 1,798 and netted 1,498! Have a look at fat2fitradio.com to get calculations x
  • DataBased
    DataBased Posts: 513 Member
    BMR is the count of calories your body would use to maintain itself if you were in a coma and did absolutely nothing all day. It stands for Basal Metabolic Rate.

    TDEE is the "Total Daily Energy Expenditure" that you burn just doing your normal day - brushing teeth, styling your hair, walking to the car, picking up sacks of groceries and taking them to your kitchen, that sort of thing.

    MFP does not calculate in any exercise calories that you burn - it calculates your BMR and your TDEE and gives you a certain amount of calorie deficit - a lower amount of calories - than your TDEE but above your BMR. That deficit is what helps you lose weight - you are burning more than you are eating. You want the deficit to be over BMR in most cases (not necessarily true for some) so you lose more fat than muscle.

    When you exercise you are burning more calories and so your deficit is larger. If your deficit gets too large, you are not taking in enough calories to keep your body's functions fueled. So your body will stop doing some things in order to compensate. Some symptoms that you are under-fueled include always being tired, hair falling out, skin dry and nails peeling or thin.

    Each person is different,. but for most people - if you will NET what MFP sets you up for, you will lose weight. When people say NET that means that you get as close to 0 calories left at the end of the day as you can after logging in your exercise calories.

    Hope that helps!

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