TDEE and BMR Help Please!?

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faithchange
faithchange Posts: 311 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
OK. So, I have had no weight loss for two weeks...but I'm not too worried. I did gain 4 lbs my last weigh in and I thought it was water weight, but having not lost it...I guess its weight gain. Still not too upset.

I have a huge question though as I've seen others posts on here. I'm confused.

My TDEE is 2675 because I exercise pretty much 6-7 times a week so I guess I'm considered a "heavy exerciser". Otherwise, I am a stay at home mom with a part time job of writing, and taking pictures...so not a whole lot of running, but the average house cleaning, ect included. I thought that TDEE was based on your daily activity away from exercise? Don't we "eat" our exercise calories in addition or something separate played in part away from TDEE? This is where I'm getting stuck!

My BMR calculated is 1557, but I've went off of 1700 calories from the P90X recommendation and then since my weight is 176 I did the calculations.

I was having success of losing 1-1.5 pounds a week until recently. I also was losing inches.

I've had a "horrible" cheat meal once a week (loaded mostly with sodium) and I have allowed myself some m/ms (a serving) at night. I've kicked my workouts into overdrive, so...I've kind of stalled out.

I'm still eating around 1700-1900 calories a day...is this where I should be?

Thanks for the help!

I'm at 176 now and was at 172 two weeks ago. Two years ago, I weighed 237 and have the goal of getting down to 150 or so.

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  • faithchange
    faithchange Posts: 311 Member
    Currently doing P90X workouts "LEAN"....so yes strength, or weight training and cardio. I include some walking, running or zumba with it for extra cardio.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    I'm still eating around 1700-1900 calories a day...is this where I should be?
    If your TDEE is 2675 that should be fine.

    I think your confusion arises because you've worked out the (correct) TDEE with everything included, whereas this site and the MFP app separates out the exercise as a separate thing - hence the "eating back" stuff.

    So by including your exercise in your TDEE you are already effectively eating back those calories, otherwise your TDEE might be about 2000.
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