Help With the TDEE and Eating Plan!

mad00had00

Hi guys! I needed some advice from y'all. I am a male, and MFP has given me 1200 calories (with sedentary activity level) to eat everyday. I understand that if you workout, you add those calories and eat up at least half of them. But the thing is I don't workout everyday. I am on my last 10 pounds (Thank God) and its going rather slow.

So I decided to go the TDEE route. I went to Scooby's website and got the calculations done. It is giving me 2192 calories to eat everyday (thats based off 20% - my TDEE). I chose the activity level of 3-5hours/week moderate exercise. Even thou I do more exercise, with my upcoming schedule I don't think Ill be able to do a lot more than 3-5 hours anyway.

I want to know that with MFP I would only eat more than 1200 calories if I added my exercise calories, and ate half of those. If I didn't, I would be going over my calorie budget. So I had to stick to my 1200 calorie budget on non-exercise days. But with Scooby, it says Im suppose to eat 1945 calories "everyday". I am worried that a jump from 1200 to 2192 might actually result in weight gain (even thou its 20% below my TDEE). Also, we don't eat back exercise calories with the TDEE plan right?

Your experiences with this? My weight loss has slowed down, which is normal at this point, I guess because either its because Im too close to my goal weigh (Thank God mA once again)t or probably hit a plateau, so thats why I decided to go the TDEE route.

Oh, one last thing…the calculator has set me 30% Protein/50%Carb/20% Fat macro nutrient ratio…does that seem fine?

Thanks for reading!!

mad00had00

That's 3-5 hours moderate exercise /week. I mostly do running/hiit fyi.

sijomial

I thought 1200 was super low I must admit (mine is 1600 and I'm similar height but heavier). Maybe add 200 to your daily net target for a couple of weeks and repeat until you find your sweet point.
As for macros - I went 40/30/30, I do a fair amount of strength training and wanted more protein.

RunDoozer

1200 is way too low for any guy to be eating unless you're under 5'0 tall. You're also underestimating your activity level with the workout youre doing you are at least lightly active if not moderately depending on what you do for work. TDEE -20% is usually a good place to start. Try it for a month and see how it works for you then make adjustments. Most guys will not be able to gain eating 2200 calories a day. Regardless of what we're doing. Also calculate your BMR and see what that is.. .You should not be eating below your BMR ever which is probably up in the 1800s id imagine

But as we dont have stats hard to tell

mad00had00

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ladyraven68

Hi guys! I needed some advice from y'all. I am a male, and MFP has given me 1200 calories (with sedentary activity level) to eat everyday. I understand that if you workout, you add those calories and eat up at least half of them. But the thing is I don't workout everyday. I am on my last 10 pounds (Thank God) and its going rather slow.

So I decided to go the TDEE route. I went to Scooby's website and got the calculations done. It is giving me 2192 calories to eat everyday (thats based off 20% - my TDEE). I chose the activity level of 3-5hours/week moderate exercise. Even thou I do more exercise, with my upcoming schedule I don't think Ill be able to do a lot more than 3-5 hours anyway.

I want to know that with MFP I would only eat more than 1200 calories if I added my exercise calories, and ate half of those. If I didn't, I would be going over my calorie budget. So I had to stick to my 1200 calorie budget on non-exercise days. But with Scooby, it says Im suppose to eat 1945 calories "everyday". I am worried that a jump from 1200 to 2192 might actually result in weight gain (even thou its 20% below my TDEE). Also, we don't eat back exercise calories with the TDEE plan right?

Your experiences with this? My weight loss has slowed down, which is normal at this point, I guess because either its because Im too close to my goal weigh (Thank God mA once again)t or probably hit a plateau, so thats why I decided to go the TDEE route.

Oh, one last thing…the calculator has set me 30% Protein/50%Carb/20% Fat macro nutrient ratio…does that seem fine?

Thanks for reading!!

Don't have any height weight info to go on, but 1200 is way too low for a male - and for the last 10lbs you should be set at 0.5 lb per week. Your figures sound like you are aiming at 2lb a week.

mad00had00

Im 5.9 160 lbs mA. Male. I have my weight loss set as 1lb/week right now on mfp and it gives me 1800 calories. Exercise wise I spend 3-5 hours/week so I changed from sedentary to lightly active. My question is even with lightly active do I still eat back my exercise calories? The only problem is that even with a 2lb loss/week I was still losing only 0.2lbs. So thats why Im hesitant to change it to 1lb loss /week but if I can get this tdee thing to work, it would be great.

mad00had00

cant update the OP with stats.

cmriverside

Less is not more when it comes to weight loss. Either way that you choose, you should be eating a minimum of your TDEE minus about 20% max. Which ever way is easiest for you.

Here:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/186814-some-mfp-basics

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/61706-guide-to-calorie-deficits

mad00had00

Less is not more when it comes to weight loss. Either way that you choose, you should be eating a minimum of your TDEE minus about 20% max. Which ever way is easiest for you.

Here:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/186814-some-mfp-basics

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/61706-guide-to-calorie-deficits

Thanks for the links. It's just going from 1200 to 2100 is a bit worrying.

mad00had00

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YoYo1951

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