BMR/TDEE/CV...Making Me SMDH

atamrowski

Gawd talk about confusing! Sorry for those that are experts at dissecting this whole BMR/TDEE thing.

I used that Scooby calculator and it says my BMR: 1590, TDEE: 2186 and Cut Value (CV): 1858 based on my weight, height, age and lightly active lifestyle inputs.

Does all this mean I need to eat my Cut Value number of 1858 daily?

Why does my Homepage on MFP say Goal 1500 then?

SoViLicious

Have you tried this

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

DavPul

Real talk, how about this? Pick a number, ANY number, and start eating that amount. Be consistent with it. Once per week (sorry Jof) check yourself on your scale and write the number down. Do this for 3 weeks.

After the 3rd week, check the weigh in numbers against each other. Which way are they going? Up, then lower your cals by 500. Down, then stay the course. Unmoved, then lower your cals by 200-300.

Rinse. Repeat. Profit.

No fancy calculations needed. No ACLT (All Capital Letter Terms) needed. No special testing. No nothing. Just eating to your target and checking your scale. After a few weeks you'll have the number and things will go smoothly from there for the next several months/years.

Just for giggles, lets start with one of the numbers you already have. I'd go with the 1800ish number, because this works best if you start high and work down.

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taso42

Gawd talk about confusing! Sorry for those that are experts at dissecting this whole BMR/TDEE thing.

I used that Scooby calculator and it says my BMR: 1590, TDEE: 2186 and Cut Value (CV): 1858 based on my weight, height, age and lightly active lifestyle inputs.

Does all this mean I need to eat my Cut Value number of 1858 daily?

Why does my Homepage on MFP say Goal 1500 then?

because it expects you to do add in appx 358 cals worth of exercise per day.

3dogsrunning

Gawd talk about confusing! Sorry for those that are experts at dissecting this whole BMR/TDEE thing.

I used that Scooby calculator and it says my BMR: 1590, TDEE: 2186 and Cut Value (CV): 1858 based on my weight, height, age and lightly active lifestyle inputs.

Does all this mean I need to eat my Cut Value number of 1858 daily?

Why does my Homepage on MFP say Goal 1500 then?

Because MFP uses a different formula. They expect you to log exercise and "eat back " those calories. So if you did a 300 calorie workout a day, you would be eating 1800 calories.
Most of the time if done properly you end up in the same spot.
Pick one formula and stick with it. If you choose to do the Scooby one, yes, you eat 1858 each day and do not "eat back" exercise calories. And as Davpaul said, adjust from there.

You can change your MFP goal by going to My Home>Goals> change goals> custom. You can either not log exercise, change the value to 1 calorie if you do or just ignore the "net" number.

Mokey41

Simple answer is that MFP does basic math. It will give you a number based on how much a week you say you want to lose. It doesn't care if it's under your BMR and will only stop going lower at 1200. It's up to you to decide if the number it gives you is healthy. Since you did all that math I'd start with the 1800 and see how it goes.

myofibril

Real talk, how about this? Pick a number, ANY number, and start eating that amount. Be consistent with it. Once per week (sorry Jof) check yourself on your scale and write the number down. Do this for 3 weeks.

After the 3rd week, check the weigh in numbers against each other. Which way are they going? Up, then lower your cals by 500. Down, then stay the course. Unmoved, then lower your cals by 200-300.

Rinse. Repeat. Profit.

No fancy calculations needed. No ACLT (All Capital Letter Terms) needed. No special testing. No nothing. Just eating to your target and checking your scale. After a few weeks you'll have the number and things will go smoothly from there for the next several months/years.

Just for giggles, lets start with one of the numbers you already have. I'd go with the 1800ish number, because this works best if you start high and work down.

Please stop talking sense.

Thank you.

cmriverside

Real talk, how about this? Pick a number, ANY number, and start eating that amount. Be consistent with it. Once per week (sorry Jof) check yourself on your scale and write the number down. Do this for 3 weeks.

After the 3rd week, check the weigh in numbers against each other. Which way are they going? Up, then lower your cals by 500. Down, then stay the course. Unmoved, then lower your cals by 200-300.

Rinse. Repeat. Profit.

No fancy calculations needed. No ACLT (All Capital Letter Terms) needed. No special testing. No nothing. Just eating to your target and checking your scale. After a few weeks you'll have the number and things will go smoothly from there for the next several months/years.

Just for giggles, lets start with one of the numbers you already have. I'd go with the 1800ish number, because this works best if you start high and work down.

This is faaaaaar too sensible. What will we argue about :grumble: ?

atamrowski

Real talk, how about this? Pick a number, ANY number, and start eating that amount. Be consistent with it. Once per week (sorry Jof) check yourself on your scale and write the number down. Do this for 3 weeks.

After the 3rd week, check the weigh in numbers against each other. Which way are they going? Up, then lower your cals by 500. Down, then stay the course. Unmoved, then lower your cals by 200-300.

Rinse. Repeat. Profit.

No fancy calculations needed. No ACLT (All Capital Letter Terms) needed. No special testing. No nothing. Just eating to your target and checking your scale. After a few weeks you'll have the number and things will go smoothly from there for the next several months/years.

Just for giggles, lets start with one of the numbers you already have. I'd go with the 1800ish number, because this works best if you start high and work down.

This is faaaaaar too sensible. What will we argue about :grumble: ?

Now THAT makes sense. Thanks for helping a phat girl out. I'm going to eat the 1858 calories and be done with it