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Not sure if I'm suppose to net or eat this amount?

Maliberri
Maliberri Posts: 59
edited January 21 in Health and Weight Loss
Okay so i calculated my TDEE and i got 2340, if i want to take off 20% every day it would be 1875, do i net at this amount or eat this amount to lose?

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  • akp4Him
    akp4Him Posts: 227
    bump
  • cmeiron
    cmeiron Posts: 1,599 Member
    As long as the TDEE you calculated includes all your exercise, then that's the amount you eat in a day, gross (no eating exercise calories back, because they're already accounted for).
  • cindybpitts
    cindybpitts Posts: 213 Member
    It depends on what you put for how active you are..if you put lightly or moderate then you would eat 1875...if you put sedentary then you would 1875 plus what you burned exercising..I assuming with it being 1875 then you must have put lightly active or moderate so it has already counted exercise calories in it.
  • BurtHuttz
    BurtHuttz Posts: 3,653 Member
    As long as the TDEE you calculated includes all your exercise, then that's the amount you eat in a day, gross (no eating exercise calories back, because they're already accounted for).

    ^ this.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    As long as the TDEE you calculated includes all your exercise, then that's the amount you eat in a day, gross (no eating exercise calories back, because they're already accounted for).

    ^ this.

    ^that
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