TDEE??? Help
kitcatsheart
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So I'm still new to this whole weight loss the right way things and I'm hearing a lot of terms that I dont know. I just learned about deficits maybe last week but now I'm reading things about TDEE and 20% reductions and it being faster than sticking to the 1200 calories they give me on here?? as a new comer I'm finding a lot of this very confusing. I dont want to be wasting my time. If I'm going to bust my butt I was results damn it!! lol :P help?
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I found the advice listed here to be pretty solid:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/952996-level-obstacles-lose-weight-target-fat-easy
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/forums/show/10067-eat-train-progress-
Also:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/937712-in-place-of-a-road-map-ver-3-0
And:
http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/
http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html
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It's not going to make you lose weight faster.
If you set your goals with MFP to 1lb a week eat those calories and all your exercise calories it is basically the same as TDEE -percentage.0 -
Also, it will not make you lose weight faster. If anything, it'll be slower. But eating at TDEE with a 20% deficit is a more efficient way to lose weight. It's also FAR more tolerable and is less likely to cause binges and "falling off the wagon". It's also far easier to maintain in the long term rather than gaining it all back. Also metabolism breakdown is much slower when eating a little more. Faster doesn't always win the race.0
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So I'm still new to this whole weight loss the right way things and I'm hearing a lot of terms that I dont know. I just learned about deficits maybe last week but now I'm reading things about TDEE and 20% reductions and it being faster than sticking to the 1200 calories they give me on here?? as a new comer I'm finding a lot of this very confusing. I dont want to be wasting my time. If I'm going to bust my butt I was results damn it!! lol :P help?
It certaily wont give you results "faster". The idea is that it's a healthy rate of FAT loss, so that the majority of the weight lost is fat and not muscle. Amongst numerous other benefits, maintaining muscle mass helps keep the metabolism raised.
If muscle is retained, keeping the weight off once you reach your goal is much more likely.
You will get a bunch of people coming on here saying how 'successful' they've been because they've reached their goal eating only 1200, but more often than not as soon as they try and eat a bit more the weight goes back on. As there is less musscle, the weight will go back on with a higher body fat percentage, resulting in the person being worse off than before they lost the weight.0 -
It's not going to make you lose weight faster.
If you set your goals with MFP to 1lb a week eat those calories and all your exercise calories it is basically the same as TDEE -percentage.
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Can anyone answer me this question. Ive just started doing it the TDEE way ..... ive changed my MFP to the cals i need to eat now, when i add my excercise in to MFP do i eat these back or not when using TDEE ??
HEEEEELP !!
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Can anyone answer me this question. Ive just started doing it the TDEE way ..... ive changed my MFP to the cals i need to eat now, when i add my excercise in to MFP do i eat these back or not when using TDEE ??
HEEEEELP !!
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If you are using the TDEE-% you do not log and eat back those calories as they are already included.
If you want to log exercise its probably best to log it at the end of the day so it doesn't muck up your MFP cals. Or just write it in the notes section.
If you are using MFP you log your exercise and eat those calories back also.0 -
Faaabulous !! Thank you mads1997 !!0
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Oh gawd! I'm a relative newbie too and have just switched over to tdee-20% but I've been eating back my exercise calories. No wonder I haven't been losing weight! :O) Thank goodnes I looked in here today or I'd soon be back to where I started.0
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Its like a minefield isnt it !! haha ... least we know now !0
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did you set your tdee to include exercise? I usually set mines to sedentary as i have a desk job. i then log my exercise cals and eat them back as my gym visits vary from week to week.0
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I set mine as sedetary ? as have sitty down job but do go to the gym 3 times a week ? have i dont it wrong ?0
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...... and no i havent been eating bak calories ! bloody confusing this !!0
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I set mine as sedetary ? as have sitty down job but do go to the gym 3 times a week ? have i dont it wrong ?
so you eat back exercise calories0 -
no ive planned to not eat them back? i was told on an earlier post not to eat them back if i done it this way ?0
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What ive now done is worked my TDEE out as sedetary put that in to MFP .... and on the days i excercise i will just eat back my excercise cals .... does that sound right ? sorry to be a thicko haha0
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If you have setyour activity level at "sedentary" then your TDEE - 20% would not include exercise cals and you'd need to log your activity and eat back those cals. If you set your activity level to include your workouts you have already accounted for activity cals and DO NOT eat them back. It is all in how you calculate your TDEE - include workouts or not include worouts........0
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MFP calculates your calories ASSUMING THAT YOU WILL EAT BACK YOUR EXERCISE CALORIES.
If you calculate your calorie intake with MFP and then do not eat back your exercise calories you will feel lethargic and hungry.
I feel like this method is hard to maintain schedule-wise, so I keep track of my workouts and add my average daily burn to my total calories, and then when I log new workouts, I use those numbers in my calculations to correct my calories.
Does that make sense?
In essense, I am using the TDEE - 15% method. This method basically averages out your total activity and gives you a total number for every day instead of doing it by a day-by-day method the way MFP does.
My favorite website for calculating BMR and TDEE is http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
I know this is all kind of jumbled. I need another coffee... But please feel free to contact me if you have questions, I'd be happy to try to clarify and help anybody out and share what I've learned so far.
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Yes i think its kinda starting to sink in ! Ive set myself a sedentary and will eat back my excercised calories .... phhhhew feel exhausted all this thinking lol0
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Yes i think its kinda starting to sink in ! Ive set myself a sedentary and will eat back my excercised calories .... phhhhew feel exhausted all this thinking lol
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