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Confused (BMR is higher than TDEE - 20% - Scooby's)

mrswho76
mrswho76 Posts: 10 Member
edited January 22 in Health and Weight Loss
I am 5'9" and currently 238 lbs. I'm female and 36 years old. I am currently pretty sedentary (but working to change that!) I used Scooby's calculator and it put my BMR at 1840, but my TDEE - 20% at 1766. Is this correct? From what I've read, you shouldn't eat below your BMR but this is over 80 cal less. I used the Fat2Fit BMR calculator which gave me a BMR of 1845 and a TDEE -20% of 1912...quite a difference!!! For the Fat 2 Fit calculator, I used 180 lbs as my goal weight. I used Scooby's first and was using that as my calorie goal until I got to do more reading. Which one is correct?

Thank you for the help!

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  • CM9178
    CM9178 Posts: 1,251 Member
    I am 5'9" and currently 238 lbs. I'm female and 36 years old. I am currently pretty sedentary (but working to change that!) I used Scooby's calculator and it put my BMR at 1840, but my TDEE - 20% at 1766. Is this correct? From what I've read, you shouldn't eat below your BMR but this is over 80 cal less. I used the Fat2Fit BMR calculator which gave me a BMR of 1845 and a TDEE -20% of 1912...quite a difference!!! For the Fat 2 Fit calculator, I used 180 lbs as my goal weight. I used Scooby's first and was using that as my calorie goal until I got to do more reading. Which one is correct?

    Thank you for the help!
    You shouldn't eat below BMR anyway, so you can't use that 20% deficit off the first number you got.
    I'd eat at 1912.
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