New daily routine at university-TDEE?

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snowbab
snowbab Posts: 192 Member
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So I have started uni this year and just finished my first week. Already I can tell I need to change my calorie allowance! Here's my activity in a week here as far as I know so far.

GENERAL:

I live in accommodation about 15 minutes away from the centre of campus where my lectures are. 20 mins from some other buildings. So I will walk there and back every day, a few times a day with the gaps between lectures so I can get different books etc... Then there's just general walking in search of lunch etc.



Sitting sedentry in lectures time:
Monday=4 hours, Tuesday: 3 hours, Wednesday=1 hour (but afternoon is sport time..later explained), Thursday=5 hours, Fri=2 hours



Weekends will vary a lot regarding general activity. Some may be spent going around the city but others I may be cooped up in my room studying hard haha.



EXERCISE

Rowing Club (BUSY timetable!!!):

Monday: Gym training (circuit training, body conditioning etc... (2 hours)
Tuesday: Run + yoga/pilates (1 hour? Not confirmed yet)
Wednesday: Double rowing session (1 rowing and 1 rowing machines) , (1:00 till 4:30pm)
Thursday: Weight training + maybe running? (not yet confirmed length)
Saturday & Sunday: Double rowing session, (2x1.5 hours)

Quidditch (I'm a HP fanatic lol, and it's like netball at the moment but will be more like rugby in the future. Basically lots of running up&down a pitch throwing and catching lol)

Depending on how tired I am from rowing/ time clashes/ study work/ weather conditions I will probably play 1 or 2 half hour games a week (rowing clashes with the other session :()



So basically from this information, what activity level would you put me at? I think probably including the exercise as logging it all would get annoying.



Based on that, how many calories should I then aim to eat both for maintenance AND for weight loss?
Height: 5"8
Weight: 116-117 pounds
Age: 19 (soon 20!)


Thanks in advance :)

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  • snowbab
    snowbab Posts: 192 Member
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    Bump?

    (sorry, I know it's a long post, but I really don't want to eat too little or too much, but am clueless as it's such a drastic change from my routine back home)
  • onyxgirl17
    onyxgirl17 Posts: 1,721 Member
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    I don't know but what I do is I track my calories for a month after changing a regimen, see how much I've lost/maintained/gained and alter my calories from there.
  • vienna26
    vienna26 Posts: 115 Member
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    Hi

    I would use the moderate activity at least for basing your daily calories you should aim to eat!!

    so 20& off whatever your TDEE is at that activity level.

    What i basiclly do is this i have my daily goal set to 1480 i have mine 30% below my TDEE as i want to lose weight just abit faster, any way thats what i eat usualy on non workout days, on workout days i always net my bmr which is 1344, so to work out how much more calories i need to eat to make sure im eating enough i do this:

    i work out the difference between my daily calorie goal 1480 and my bmr 1344 which is 136

    So today i logged my exercise which was 510 cals so i take the difference between my daily goal and bmr 136 from my exercise cals 510 so

    510-136 = 374

    so based on this 374 is how many calories i need to eat back to net my bmr and ensuring im eating enough so my total calories for today is 1854 calories!!

    I hope this makes sense to you and helps with what your looking for!! But defo set your goals at at least moderate activity :-)

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