BMR and TDEE

skilly16
skilly16 Posts: 13
in Health and Weight Loss
I need some reassurance here, I currently eat around 1300 calories per day, plus burn 500ish calories per day through exercise.
Having just worked out my BMR, it reckons it's around 1490, and my TDEE is around 2300. So is this telling me I need to up my calories? I'm not seeing a huge loss as it is, so don't really want to chance stalling the loss or plateauing!

Any advice?
Only helpful comments please, sorry it you've heard it all before...

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  • cheekyleonie
    cheekyleonie Posts: 140 Member
    I've recently changed my calorie intake to be that of my BMR, because as you probably know, BMR means how much energy your body would use just to keep you alive if you were to lay in bed an do nothing. But how often do you actually spend doing nothing all day? I find that since i'm not exercising every day, my BMR is a good target even if I am eating around 200 cals more than BMR on non exercise days, I am still losing weight. So each day I try to target my NET calories to be close to my BMR.

    If you do take this road, please let me know what sort of results you get. What works for one person may not work for everyone, so I would be really interested to see how it goes!
  • Amellej
    Amellej Posts: 197 Member
    I think you should try eating just above your BMR and see how that goes, change your calories maybe one week eat at BMR then the next a little higher but not above your TDEE, keep your body guessing and that should help the scales start moving, hope this helps:smile:
  • skilly16
    skilly16 Posts: 13
    Thank you all! Exactly what I wanted.
    I'll try upping my calories and see what happens!
  • skilly16
    skilly16 Posts: 13
    So just checking... Should I be eating 1800ish cals after exercise?
    Or if I ate 1800 but burned 500, I shouldn't eat those exercise cals back?

    1800 sounds an awful lot.... :/
  • caseythirteen
    caseythirteen Posts: 956 Member
    It depends on how you want to do it. If the TDEE you figured out includes an activity level that includes your exercise then no you do not eat back your exercise calories. If that TDEE was based on sedentary than yes, you can eat back your exercise calories.
  • skilly16
    skilly16 Posts: 13
    Yeah, TDEE with exercise is 2300 and without is 1790.
    Thanks for the help!
  • joanne70
    joanne70 Posts: 68 Member
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