Calorie Intake

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escile6
escile6 Posts: 59 Member
edited January 1 in Health and Weight Loss
Okay I have been using what MFP had figured for me as calorie intake.. 1500 that was with "Active" movement throughout the day.. I generally burn between 300-400 calories 6 days a week and moved my active to "lightly active" during the day since my little one likes me to sit and hold him I feel the moving around during the day as much has stopped for now.. It lowered me to 1330 calories a day.. My BMR says 1526/day.. Now I read somewhere to add your calories burned to your BMR with will bring me roughly to an intake of 1836/day.. My goal is set to lose 1.5 lbs a week. Is that correct 1826 daily on workout days?

Currently Iam 5'3" and weight 185-187 the scale keeps going back and forth day to day..

Any insight or expereience will help!

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  • DanaDark
    DanaDark Posts: 2,187 Member
    I would suggest you shoot for 1 pound a week as your goal. This doesn't mean you will lose a max of 1 pound a week, as you'll most likely lose a bit more than that if you stay under the calorie goal.

    Eating so close to your BMR, you will definitely need to make intelligent food choices, getting all your nutrition and definitely enough protein.

    Also, do not include your exercise in your TDEE. The reason is that you log your exercise on MFP and that adds calories to your allowance for the day.
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