TDEE

Sweettart

I am not losing as much weight as I would like to and only eating about 1300 calories a day. Ive been hearing a lot about TDEE and wondering more about it.

I found a TDEE calculator and my TDEE is 2610 and with the 20% calorie reduction my total is 2088.

My question is do I eat the 2088 calories a day plus my exercises calories or just the 2088?

AmyRhubarb

Try this topic: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

MFP member Dan has laid it all out there pretty thoroughly - helped me a ton in figuring out my numbers and cleared up a lot of my questions. :bigsmile:

geekyjock76

Keep in mind that some TDEE Calculators can be off several 100s of calories depending on how much you weigh and which BMR equation is used. Some BMR formulas do not take into account body composition, thus it can under or overestimate calories depending on which side of the weight spectrum you belong before considering the activity multiplier of the TDEE.

Additionally, if someone is at normal weight or slightly overweight, I use the active metabolic rate rather than basal. On the other hand, if they are greatly overweight I'll use BMR.

Lastly, if you've been dieting for too many consecutive months, you may have lowered your resting and active metabolic rate - thus maintenance or TDEE will actually be lower than estimated.

CoderGal

Try this topic: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

MFP member Dan has laid it all out there pretty thoroughly - helped me a ton in figuring out my numbers and cleared up a lot of my questions. :bigsmile:

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Keep in mind that some TDEE Calculators can be off several 100s of calories depending on how much you weigh and which BMR equation is used. Some BMR formulas do not take into account body composition, thus it can under or overestimate calories depending on which side of the weight spectrum you belong before considering the activity multiplier of the TDEE.

Additionally, if someone is at normal weight or slightly overweight, I use the active metabolic rate rather than basal. On the other hand, if they are greatly overweight I'll use BMR.

Lastly, if you've been dieting for too many consecutive months, you may have lowered your resting and active metabolic rate - thus maintenance or TDEE will actually be lower than estimated.

This and you can also get your RMR (resting metabolic rate) read by a doctor. In my experience though (helping a lot of other people with these calculations) most people find that they underestimated what they could eat...but there are definitely exceptions. There are also ways to bring your TDEE back up if you do manage to lower it a noticeable degree.

As for the which one to eat. I usually pick the sedentary TDEE and add my exercise calories manually...which works out to be about the same. But no, you shouldn't count your exercise calories twice.