Confused

tinagn
tinagn Posts: 72 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
If my bmr is 1440, and my TDEE is 2500, and I'm eating At 1900, I don't feel like I'm burning 460 calories a day to get to that number and i sure as hell am not burning 1100 calories to get to 2500 which is my TDEE! I am definitely missing something here, can someone explain?

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  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    BMR is the amount of calories you'd burn if you stayed in bed all day and didn't eat. It's the energy required to keep your body alive, keep blood flowing, brain functioning, lungs breather, brain thinking, etc. TDEE includes the BMR and all the calories burned walking around, eating, moving your arms, legs, etc, and even exercise. Keeping an adult human body alive and moving requires a lot of energy.
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,273 Member
    Think of your body as a factory. Just to turn on the lights and heat you need to eat your BMR. If you start to turn on machines to do work and make stuff you need more fuel. So to run the heat, lights, and machinery you need to fuel your TDEE. If you eat/input more energy than you need to do all the stuff you do/make, the factory will store it in batteries (fat).
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Did you get up out of bed and do anything?
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    If your TDEE is 2,500, you are burning 2,500 a day.

    How did you come up with your TDEE?
  • tinagn
    tinagn Posts: 72 Member
    If your TDEE is 2,500, you are burning 2,500 a day.

    How did you come up with your TDEE?

    Using bf%

    And yes, of course, I exercise for an hour at least everyday
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    If your TDEE is 2,500, you are burning 2,500 a day.

    How did you come up with your TDEE?

    Using bf%

    And yes, of course, I exercise for an hour at least everyday

    I meant do you use an online site?

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