How much should I eat??

katerinajulia
katerinajulia Posts: 89 Member
in Food and Nutrition
My BMR is around 1650 and my TDEE -20% is around 1850, so I generally try to stay within those boundaries. Usually if I work out (and burn anywhere from 200 to 500 calories), I try to make sure that my net is above my BMR. Today (I'm training for a half marathon) I did a long run/walk - 10 miles - and burned about 1400 calories. How much am I supposed to eat??

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  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    1850 every day - workout or no. That's how the TDEE-20% method works.
  • katerinajulia
    katerinajulia Posts: 89 Member
    1850 every day - workout or no. That's how the TDEE-20% method works.

    I've read that it's not a good idea to net under your BMR. If I eat 1850 today, my net will be 450..
  • Mverdecia1
    Mverdecia1 Posts: 28
    Eat when you're hungry, stop when you're not. Log everything but enjoy not having to monitor so much today. Try to eat back some but not all of your burned calories. 1650 (your BMR) plus upto 1400 extra. But the less you eat the faster you will lose! It is like a free day :)
  • Vaisaxena
    Vaisaxena Posts: 109 Member
    1850 every day - workout or no. That's how the TDEE-20% method works.

    I've read that it's not a good idea to net under your BMR. If I eat 1850 today, my net will be 450..

    Correct.

    You should NOT be netting 450kCal per day.

    TDEE is exactly that: today daily energy expenditure... if you expend an extra 1400kCal that is part of your tdee.
  • WaterBunnie
    WaterBunnie Posts: 1,371 Member
    It seems a lot less complicated to follow what this site gives you and have the extra calories on the day you actually need them.
  • belle19822000
    belle19822000 Posts: 62 Member
    1850 every day - workout or no. That's how the TDEE-20% method works.

    I've read that it's not a good idea to net under your BMR. If I eat 1850 today, my net will be 450..

    did you log sedentary activity for TDEE? If so, eat calories back.

    If you log as moderate exercise (3-5 days a week) for example, eat TDEE - 20% all the time (even on your rest days, beacuse those calories are ALREADY incorporated in TDEE, and you deducted 20% off.

    hope that helps!
  • TotallyNotBillNye
    TotallyNotBillNye Posts: 133
    You definitely want to look into it a little bit more than generic "this worked for me" advice. Everyone is different and everyone wants to help, unfortunattely alot of bad advice is given in the process. What are your goals, to simply have a lower scale number or to decrease body fat? How often are you exercising, what kind of exercise are you comfortable doing and for how long? What type of foods fit your dietary lifestyle?
  • cmeiron
    cmeiron Posts: 1,599 Member
    If you're following a TDEE -20% approach but have really uneven "burns" throughout the week, you can eat a little less on non-workout days or light days, and eat more on heavy workout days, so that the weekly average works out to TDEE -20%/day.
  • katerinajulia
    katerinajulia Posts: 89 Member
    If you're following a TDEE -20% approach but have really uneven "burns" throughout the week, you can eat a little less on non-workout days or light days, and eat more on heavy workout days, so that the weekly average works out to TDEE -20%/day.

    Okay - this makes sense. I'm still trying to figure out how to eat healthily and work out at the same time because I have binge eating tendencies. Thanks!

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