Losing a pound and Gaining a Pound & BMR

hiyomi

S I always hear to gain or lose a pound you need to eat/burn 3,500 calories. So let's says I eat 3,500 or more one day and my BMR is 2000 calories. Is this subtracted from the 3,500 I ate? I didn't eat this much but have always wondered about this. If I'm eating 1800 calories a day and my BMR is 2000 calories and I'm also exercising 500-700 calories off? How does BMR work? thanks!

seena511

you would need to consume or create a deficit of 3,500 from whatever your maintenance is. BMR is how many calories you would burn to stay alive if you were in a coma.

syntaxxor

BMR is based off of your age/sex/weight. It's a set thing.

If you eat 3500 in one day, and your BMR is 2000, then you ate a surplus of 1500 calories. Meaning on paper to gain a pound, you would need to eat 2000 more calories.

(So to gain a pound in a single day you would need to eat 5500 calories).

This is "on paper" though. BMR, RMR, even the one pound being 3,500 calories should be considered benchmarks and estimates, nothing more.

BMR itself is nothing more than the measurement of how many calories your body would burn if you didn't get out of bed all day. (again "on paper")

wish21

i remember reading somewhere that you aren't suppose to eat below that number.

auddii

BMR is based off of your age/sex/weight. It's a set thing.

If you eat 3500 in one day, and your BMR is 2000, then you ate a surplus of 1500 calories. Meaning on paper to gain a pound, you would need to eat 2000 more calories.

(So to gain a pound in a single day you would need to eat 5500 calories).

This is "on paper" though. BMR, RMR, even the one pound being 3,500 calories should be considered benchmarks and estimates, nothing more.

BMR itself is nothing more than the measurement of how many calories your body would burn if you didn't get out of bed all day. (again "on paper")

No, weight gain is eating more than MAINTENANCE, which is your TDEE, not your BMR. TDEE is total daily energy expenditure, and it's how many calories you burn in a day. If you eat more than you burn, then you may gain.

syntaxxor

BMR is based off of your age/sex/weight. It's a set thing.

If you eat 3500 in one day, and your BMR is 2000, then you ate a surplus of 1500 calories. Meaning on paper to gain a pound, you would need to eat 2000 more calories.

(So to gain a pound in a single day you would need to eat 5500 calories).

This is "on paper" though. BMR, RMR, even the one pound being 3,500 calories should be considered benchmarks and estimates, nothing more.

BMR itself is nothing more than the measurement of how many calories your body would burn if you didn't get out of bed all day. (again "on paper")

No, weight gain is eating more than MAINTENANCE, which is your TDEE, not your BMR. TDEE is total daily energy expenditure, and it's how many calories you burn in a day. If you eat more than you burn, then you may gain.

If you're basing it off TDEE then yes. I was basing it off BMR...because..she asked about BMR; I didn't touch TDEE at all. I guess I should have gone more into detail; didn't want to create a huge wall of text.

hiyomi

BMR is based off of your age/sex/weight. It's a set thing.

If you eat 3500 in one day, and your BMR is 2000, then you ate a surplus of 1500 calories. Meaning on paper to gain a pound, you would need to eat 2000 more calories.

(So to gain a pound in a single day you would need to eat 5500 calories).

This is "on paper" though. BMR, RMR, even the one pound being 3,500 calories should be considered benchmarks and estimates, nothing more.

BMR itself is nothing more than the measurement of how many calories your body would burn if you didn't get out of bed all day. (again "on paper")

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Ah kk, i was kinda wondering because sometimes I go out with friends to like Texas Roadhouse and they give me crap how its like 2k calorie plus meal, which it is, but then I use the excuse that my BMR is around 1500-2000 calories and its like I only ate 1000 calories or so. I do exercise 5 days a week and keep my calories in control most days except for like Saturdays, but I don't think I have ever eaten more than 3,500 calories in a day even if I had tried

cwolfman13

To lose 1 Lb per week, you deduct 3,500 calories for your maintenance level of calories (TDEE). Example....

My BMR is 1,790 calories...this is what I burn just laying there doing nothing...not even twitching a finger. If I were to lie in bed all day long and not move a muscle, I'd burn roughly 1,790 calories

TDEE is 2,450 calories (to maintain weight)

To lose 1 Lb per week....3,500/7 = 500 calories per day deficit...

Therefore, TDEE 2,450-500 = 1,950 calories per day to lose 1 Lb per week. The closer I get to my goal weight, the narrower the gap between TDEE and BMR becomes...thus, larger deficits become unsustainable. As an example, a 2 Lb per week loss goal right now would be too aggressive and put me at 1,450 calories per day...unsustainable as this is significantly below my BMR.

auddii

BMR is based off of your age/sex/weight. It's a set thing.

If you eat 3500 in one day, and your BMR is 2000, then you ate a surplus of 1500 calories. Meaning on paper to gain a pound, you would need to eat 2000 more calories.

(So to gain a pound in a single day you would need to eat 5500 calories).

This is "on paper" though. BMR, RMR, even the one pound being 3,500 calories should be considered benchmarks and estimates, nothing more.

BMR itself is nothing more than the measurement of how many calories your body would burn if you didn't get out of bed all day. (again "on paper")

No, weight gain is eating more than MAINTENANCE, which is your TDEE, not your BMR. TDEE is total daily energy expenditure, and it's how many calories you burn in a day. If you eat more than you burn, then you may gain.

If you're basing it off TDEE then yes. I was basing it off BMR...because..she asked about BMR; I didn't touch TDEE at all. I guess I should have gone more into detail; didn't want to create a huge wall of text.

Yes, but if your BMR is (for example) 1600 calories and your TDEE is 2300, and you eat 1500 above BMR, you said that she would need to eat another 2000 calories to gain a pound. But that's not true. She would only be 800 calories above her TDEE, so she would need another 2700 calories to gain a pound. "Surplus" calories are based off of TDEE, not BMR; they just aren't related.

hiyomi

BMR is based off of your age/sex/weight. It's a set thing.

If you eat 3500 in one day, and your BMR is 2000, then you ate a surplus of 1500 calories. Meaning on paper to gain a pound, you would need to eat 2000 more calories.

(So to gain a pound in a single day you would need to eat 5500 calories).

This is "on paper" though. BMR, RMR, even the one pound being 3,500 calories should be considered benchmarks and estimates, nothing more.

BMR itself is nothing more than the measurement of how many calories your body would burn if you didn't get out of bed all day. (again "on paper")

No, weight gain is eating more than MAINTENANCE, which is your TDEE, not your BMR. TDEE is total daily energy expenditure, and it's how many calories you burn in a day. If you eat more than you burn, then you may gain.

If you're basing it off TDEE then yes. I was basing it off BMR...because..she asked about BMR; I didn't touch TDEE at all. I guess I should have gone more into detail; didn't want to create a huge wall of text.

Yes, but if your BMR is (for example) 1600 calories and your TDEE is 2300, and you eat 1500 above BMR, you said that she would need to eat another 2000 calories to gain a pound. But that's not true. She would only be 800 calories above her TDEE, so she would need another 2700 calories to gain a pound. "Surplus" calories are based off of TDEE, not BMR; they just aren't related.

Well that makes me feel even better