taking a bold leap with TDEE

happydaze71

ok, I have been reading up on this TDEE thing today, I have to say, my brain hurts.
What I've come out with so far is I need to up my calories to almost 1700 per day. Right, HORRIFYING!!!!!!! But I am prepared to do it, as I am majorly struggling with energy, I feel like a dead wombat right now.
Anyhooooo, my TDEE is supposedly 2590 with a 909 deficit, yup, ok. Now.... I will do all my normal exercise on top of this, or have I completely stuffed it up? Anyway I am going to change my calories up to what it says to for now and see what happens. FRIGHTENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kae_blah

When increasing calories try increasing each day by 100-200 calories a day rather than jumping a huge amount all at once.

happydaze71

thank you

Alta2000

ok, I have been reading up on this TDEE thing today, I have to say, my brain hurts.
What I've come out with so far is I need to up my calories to almost 1700 per day. Right, HORRIFYING!!!!!!! But I am prepared to do it, as I am majorly struggling with energy, I feel like a dead wombat right now.
Anyhooooo, my TDEE is supposedly 2590 with a 909 deficit, yup, ok. Now.... I will do all my normal exercise on top of this, or have I completely stuffed it up? Anyway I am going to change my calories up to what it says to for now and see what happens. FRIGHTENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What do you mean 909 deficit? And about the normal exercise on top of this? Did you calculate the TDEE as sedentary, or with the average hours of exercise you do?

YoungDoc2B

Where did you get 1700 calories from? If you're utilizing the TDEE method, you should be eating at a 20% deficit. That would bring your intake to 2,072 calories per day. If you planned on eating 1700 calories, that would mean your deficit is at ~35%, and that's simply WAY too much.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you?

AbsoluteNG

Myfitnesspal already uses the TDEE method and it's more accurate. The difference is when your exercise calories are calculated. Exercise from myfitnesspal is calculated after you do it on a daily basis. Random website TDEE calculators assume your TDEE is the same every day and it includes your exercise before you do it. Go into your myfitnesspal settings and change it to 1 pound loss per week and eat all of your exercise calories back. That should be very close to TDEE minus 20%.

happydaze71

I believe my original post was quite clear.... I used a TDEE calculator... it gave me the original 2590, then said my deficit was 909. I used 3 different calculators and came up with the exact same number but with no instructions about what to do with that information.
So I figured I minus the 909 from the 2590... and in my original post also said my exercise would be on top of that.... and asked if I had it wrong????
I calculated it with 7+ hours a week of exercise, not as sedentary.

happydaze71

Thank you @absoluteNG...that does make it clearer.

Lyadeia

Myfitnesspal already uses the TDEE method and it's more accurate. The difference is when your exercise calories are calculated. Exercise from myfitnesspal is calculated after you do it on a daily basis. Random website TDEE calculators assume your TDEE is the same every day and it includes your exercise before you do it. Go into your myfitnesspal settings and change it to 1 pound loss per week and eat all of your exercise calories back. That should be very close to TDEE minus 20%.

Actually, I was doing that before and MFP set me at 1260 + exercise which was usually around 1500 total daily. I was stuck like chuck. I used one of those "random website TDEE calculators" as you call them and decided to raise my intake. When I started eating around 1800 per day, the body fat started dropping considerably. I'll be at my goal in no time...

Lyadeia

I believe my original post was quite clear.... I used a TDEE calculator... it gave me the original 2590, then said my deficit was 909. I used 3 different calculators and came up with the exact same number but with no instructions about what to do with that information.
So I figured I minus the 909 from the 2590... and in my original post also said my exercise would be on top of that.... and asked if I had it wrong????
I calculated it with 7+ hours a week of exercise, not as sedentary.

That website gave you a horribly high deficit. I'm not sure what website you used, but most people agree that a moderate deficit of 20% under your TDEE is best, as long as you calculated TDEE correctly.

YoungDoc2B

I believe my original post was quite clear.... I used a TDEE calculator... it gave me the original 2590, then said my deficit was 909. I used 3 different calculators and came up with the exact same number but with no instructions about what to do with that information.
So I figured I minus the 909 from the 2590... and in my original post also said my exercise would be on top of that.... and asked if I had it wrong????
I calculated it with 7+ hours a week of exercise, not as sedentary.

Apparently it wasn't, if people are questioning what you're talking about. Anyway, if you're really exercising over 7 hours per week, 1700 is probably still too low for you (especially if you throw heavy lifting into the mix)

happydaze71

sigh.... I posted this because I literally had no idea what to do with the information I was given. Clearly I have no idea!
Thank you @youngdoc2B....I do a lot of cardio and a lot of weights, and am clearly not feeding myself enough, even though I have a very clean diet, as the last week or so I feel shaky and horrible.
hence my decision to try and look into this.
@Lyadeia... yes MFP set my cals BACK to 1280 or something like that once I changed it as suggested by someone else who responded here.... I had set it myself for 1400 and not eating back any exercise cals, but its now set it ridiculously low.
Anyhooooo.... I will keep an open mind and try it for myself
Thank you everyone for your responses.

Alta2000

I believe my original post was quite clear.... I used a TDEE calculator... it gave me the original 2590, then said my deficit was 909. I used 3 different calculators and came up with the exact same number but with no instructions about what to do with that information.
So I figured I minus the 909 from the 2590... and in my original post also said my exercise would be on top of that.... and asked if I had it wrong????
I calculated it with 7+ hours a week of exercise, not as sedentary.

http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

Try Scooby's calculator and it will give you the calculations straightforward and instructions. The TDEE will be minus% based on how much % you want to use as deficit and based on the exercise you do. You have 2 choices. You can calculate your TDEE as sedentary and then eat back your calories if your weekly exercise regimen differs dramatically. The second choice and what most people prefer is to include the amount of exercise they do when they calculate the TDEE and then just eat that number of calories without eating back the exercise calories since they will be included in that TDEE-%.

Alta2000

Choose the TDEE-% that you prefer and calculate it on scoobie's calculator. Let's say it gives you 1800. Then go at mfp, under my home, under goal, and select my goals custom. Change the calories consumed to the new number. If it is 1800, then I would put 1750. This will be your daily calories goal. If you also log your daily exercises in mfp, when you put them in change the calories for the exercises to 1. That way you track the exercises but do not change the food log calories because mfp adjusts the daily macros and calories based on exercise logged. TDEE will be your upper limit to maintain and not gain weight and BMR the lowest, and the TDEE-% should be your daily goal in order to lose weight.