We are pleased to announce that as of March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor has been introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!
Help with my TDEE?

Kgholli
Posts: 27
I just wanted some reassurance that I got my numbers right on the amount of Calories I should be consuming in a day.
I have read posts by Dan, Sara and Sidesteel where they use online calculators to work out the numbers.
I have done it a bit differently after reading Morebean’s blog about her diet break, so this is what I did.
Total calories consumed during Jan was 47418 over that same period I lost 6.6kg or about 14.5lbs, so I multiplied 14.5 by 3500 (50750) added 47418 and 50750 together (98168) then dived by 31 to give me my maintenance cals of 3166, so if I deduct 20% of this total, daily cals for me should be 2533?
I am currently on 1600 cals a day and I don’t want to undo all of the hard work I have put in.
Thanks for taking the time to help
I have read posts by Dan, Sara and Sidesteel where they use online calculators to work out the numbers.
I have done it a bit differently after reading Morebean’s blog about her diet break, so this is what I did.
Total calories consumed during Jan was 47418 over that same period I lost 6.6kg or about 14.5lbs, so I multiplied 14.5 by 3500 (50750) added 47418 and 50750 together (98168) then dived by 31 to give me my maintenance cals of 3166, so if I deduct 20% of this total, daily cals for me should be 2533?
I am currently on 1600 cals a day and I don’t want to undo all of the hard work I have put in.
Thanks for taking the time to help

0
This discussion has been closed.
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 394.5K Introduce Yourself
- 44K Getting Started
- 260.5K Health and Weight Loss
- 176.1K Food and Nutrition
- 47.5K Recipes
- 232.7K Fitness and Exercise
- 444 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.5K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.6K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 153.1K Motivation and Support
- 8.1K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.4K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 4K MyFitnessPal Information
- 16 News and Announcements
- 1.3K Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.8K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions