Confused on intake

wholesomejoe

One site calculator says one thing.. MFP says another.. teambeachbody says another..

for MFP i put in the following...

6'1"
male
205
goal: 175
activity level: sedentary (I work a desk job, I do insanity in the evenings.)

it gives me..
1920 calories per day
with a ratio of..
325 carbs
79 fat
88 protein


Teambeachbody's calculator... says..

2413 calories per day

yet another calculator based om the harris benedict equation says 3000+

which is accurate?

JerseyGirlinTN

I just posted something very similar.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/921069-tdee-bmr-help

Depending on the calculator, I have a near 800 calorie difference.

auddii

You picked sedentary, which means you would log and eat back your insanity calories. So, if you burn 500 calories doing insanity, then you would eat about 2400 calories. Are you seeing a trend here...

DarrelBirkett

One site calculator says one thing.. MFP says another.. teambeachbody says another..

for MFP i put in the following...

6'1"
male
205
goal: 175
activity level: sedentary (I work a desk job, I do insanity in the evenings.)

it gives me..
1920 calories per day
with a ratio of..
325 carbs
79 fat
88 protein


Teambeachbody's calculator... says..

2413 calories per day

yet another calculator based om the harris benedict equation says 3000+

which is accurate?

I get 2446. That is your TDEE before exercise and before dropping weight.

To drop weight aim for 20% less than that which gives 1956. Say 2000 for ease per day.

You can re-eat some of your used cals (so if you burn 300 doing exercise that pushes your TDEE up to 2746 and reduction target to 2300 so I would eat 2000 ~ 2300 on that day).

Also look at your macro if you are going that in depth. MFP typically under values protein and over carbs. Thats a massive amount of carbs you stated there. Personally to start with I would aim for 50% Carbs / 30% Protein / 20% Fat.

Broken down=
50% Carbs = 1000 Cals = 250g (1g = 4cals)
30% Protein = 600 Cals = 150g (1g = 4cals)
20% Fats = 400 Cals = 45g (1g = 9cals)

wholesomejoe

I picked sedentary, because other than insanity.. my only excercise is just walking from place to place.

I know they are just estimates, but I'd at like to at least be in the ball park. This stuff is expensive to maintain.

wholesomejoe

One site calculator says one thing.. MFP says another.. teambeachbody says another..

for MFP i put in the following...

6'1"
male
205
goal: 175
activity level: sedentary (I work a desk job, I do insanity in the evenings.)

it gives me..
1920 calories per day
with a ratio of..
325 carbs
79 fat
88 protein


Teambeachbody's calculator... says..

2413 calories per day

yet another calculator based om the harris benedict equation says 3000+

which is accurate?

I get 2446. That is your TDEE before exercise and before dropping weight.

To drop weight aim for 20% less than that which gives 1956. Say 2000 for ease per day.

You can re-eat some of your used cals (so if you burn 300 doing exercise that pushes your TDEE up to 2746 and reduction target to 2300 so I would eat 2000 ~ 2300 on that day).

Also look at your macro if you are going that in depth. MFP typically under values protein and over carbs. Thats a massive amount of carbs you stated there. Personally to start with I would aim for 50% Carbs / 30% Protein / 20% Fat.

Broken down=
50% Carbs = 1000 Cals = 250g (1g = 4cals)
30% Protein = 600 Cals = 150g (1g = 4cals)
20% Fats = 400 Cals = 45g (1g = 9cals)

Is there a way to manually input these values into MFP?

Also, your saying my daily goal should be somewhere in the 2000-2400 range, that's WITH doing insanity.

tami101

MFP is designed for you to eat back your exercise calories, the other sites include them in your calorie goal. Personally, I prefer MFP's way because if I don't do any exercise I can still have a calorie deficit by eating the lower amount MFP sets for me.

DarrelBirkett

One site calculator says one thing.. MFP says another.. teambeachbody says another..

for MFP i put in the following...

6'1"
male
205
goal: 175
activity level: sedentary (I work a desk job, I do insanity in the evenings.)

it gives me..
1920 calories per day
with a ratio of..
325 carbs
79 fat
88 protein


Teambeachbody's calculator... says..

2413 calories per day

yet another calculator based om the harris benedict equation says 3000+

which is accurate?

I get 2446. That is your TDEE before exercise and before dropping weight.

To drop weight aim for 20% less than that which gives 1956. Say 2000 for ease per day.

You can re-eat some of your used cals (so if you burn 300 doing exercise that pushes your TDEE up to 2746 and reduction target to 2300 so I would eat 2000 ~ 2300 on that day).

Also look at your macro if you are going that in depth. MFP typically under values protein and over carbs. Thats a massive amount of carbs you stated there. Personally to start with I would aim for 50% Carbs / 30% Protein / 20% Fat.

Broken down=
50% Carbs = 1000 Cals = 250g (1g = 4cals)
30% Protein = 600 Cals = 150g (1g = 4cals)
20% Fats = 400 Cals = 45g (1g = 9cals)

Is there a way to manually input these values into MFP?

Also, your saying my daily goal should be somewhere in the 2000-2400 range, that's WITH doing insanity.

No, I done at sedentary so you would eat 2000 cals on those days. Then days you workout you can add the activity and MFP will add the extra cals to your daily target.

You can manually add your goals as follows (via Web only) :

MyHome > Goals > Change Goals > Custom >

There you enter your cals (enter 2000) and can break down the macro % below it.

As you entered 2000 this will be 20% under your TDEE on sedentary days. Then use MFP to add activity and it will increase your available cals from 2000 to 2000 + activity.