How many calories should I eat based on my BMR and TDEE?

AESprouse
AESprouse Posts: 112 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Stats: 22 y/o Female 5'1 CW: 235lb GW: 135lb
BMR: 1342
TDEE: 2552
How many net calories should I consume each day to reach my weight loss goal? TIA everyone!!

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  • AESprouse
    AESprouse Posts: 112 Member
    anyone??
  • mocha76
    mocha76 Posts: 184 Member
    Stats: 22 y/o Female 5'1 CW: 235lb GW: 135lb
    BMR: 1342
    TDEE: 2552
    How many net calories should I consume each day to reach my weight loss goal? TIA everyone!!


    Try this link. Very good info.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/682138-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12
  • gp79
    gp79 Posts: 1,799 Member
    How did you go about calculating your BMR?

    My calculations based off of your information show roughly 1750 calories.

    Same goes with your TDEE. It's based off of your BMR and then how active you are.

    To keep things simple, eat at your BMR (1750) calories. If you log your food accurately, chances are you'll lose weight. If you're losing faster than you'd like, or if you find 1750 calories is hard to sustain, up your calories slightly but keep an eye on the scale as eventually if you up them too much you'll stop losing.

    As with any weight loss goal, you are going to want to keep the lean muscle you currently have, or at least preserve as much of it as you can. BMR is based heavily on your lean body mass and if you do not preserve it, you'll be burning fewer calories throughout the day later on down the road. Resistance training and having an appropriate protein intake are two of the biggest things you can do to accomplish this. There are a million threads here where you can read more.
  • birdieaz
    birdieaz Posts: 448 Member
    It seems you might have figured your BMR incorrectly. Try this calculator.

    http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
  • CameronBBigelow
    CameronBBigelow Posts: 3
    Depending on the time frame that you would like to accomplish your goal and the amount of exercise that you place in to one week I would vary you around 2100 kcals (this number if you are highly active) and 1700 kcals (for a moderate activity level) and 1500 kcals (for a low activity level). Hope this helps! Also if you are on any medications or have any risk factors this could also come in to play.

    Cameron.

    B.A. Sports and Exercise Science.
  • AESprouse
    AESprouse Posts: 112 Member
    These are the numbers I got when I followed the road map. The BMR is from the second method based on my body fat percentage and lean body mass and the TDEE was based on a lightly active lifestyle.
  • birdieaz
    birdieaz Posts: 448 Member
    These are the numbers I got when I followed the road map. The BMR is from the second method based on my body fat percentage and lean body mass and the TDEE was based on a lightly active lifestyle.

    Hmm I got a BMR of 1754 based on that calculator and I tried different bf ratios. The numbers don't add up.
  • ChasingStarlight
    ChasingStarlight Posts: 424 Member
    Your bmr can't be right. I am 5'2 and about 110 pounds and mine is 1240. If I were you I would eat maybe 30% below tdee, if you can do that ok.
  • pancakemix16
    pancakemix16 Posts: 45 Member
    I tried http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/ and it says my BMR is1988. But MFP says I should be eatting 1600 calories a day to lose 1.5lbs a week. Is this right?
  • AESprouse
    AESprouse Posts: 112 Member
    These are the numbers I got when I followed the road map. The BMR is from the second method based on my body fat percentage and lean body mass and the TDEE was based on a lightly active lifestyle.

    Hmm I got a BMR of 1754 based on that calculator and I tried different bf ratios. The numbers don't add up.

    My BF is 57.8%
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Stats: 22 y/o Female 5'1 CW: 235lb GW: 135lb
    BMR: 1342
    TDEE: 2552
    How many net calories should I consume each day to reach my weight loss goal? TIA everyone!!

    There's an element of choice here, you can sustain a fairly high loss rate initially as your BF is high, so you could eat 1500 for a loss of about 1.5 - 2 lbs/week or you could go for a slower loss rate with a 20% deficit eating 2000 or you could do something more aggressive still for 6-8 weeks then back off to one of the above.

    ETA: I see you've used the "extremely active" multiplier of 1,9 - "are you sure" ? You don't want to be doing any "net calorie" stuff or "eating back" if you've gone in with such a high TDEE estimate to start with.
  • santa_nethy
    santa_nethy Posts: 34
    How did you go about calculating your BMR?

    My calculations based off of your information show roughly 1750 calories.

    Same goes with your TDEE. It's based off of your BMR and then how active you are.

    To keep things simple, eat at your BMR (1750) calories. If you log your food accurately, chances are you'll lose weight. If you're losing faster than you'd like, or if you find 1750 calories is hard to sustain, up your calories slightly but keep an eye on the scale as eventually if you up them too much you'll stop losing.

    As with any weight loss goal, you are going to want to keep the lean muscle you currently have, or at least preserve as much of it as you can. BMR is based heavily on your lean body mass and if you do not preserve it, you'll be burning fewer calories throughout the day later on down the road. Resistance training and having an appropriate protein intake are two of the biggest things you can do to accomplish this. There are a million threads here where you can read more.


    Hi, if you have you MFP calorie intake set at your BMR, do you need to 'eat back' calories when you put in exercise?

    I was just looking into this TDEE stuff and its quite complicated but I think it has a lot of answers. My weight loss has been slow and I don't think I've been consuming enough healthy calories, so I upped it to 1374 as MFP told me this was my BMR. Although calculators online say 1435.

    Should I be eating 1435 calories a day regardless of whether I exercise? Today for instance I burned 400+ calories doing spin, which technically gives me an allowance of 1800 calories on MFP. Is this right? How am I creating a deficit if I eat 1800?

    Any help appreciated thanks!
    Catherine
  • petiteLady89
    petiteLady89 Posts: 198 Member
    I like fat2fitradio.com. It has good calculators on it.
  • santa_nethy
    santa_nethy Posts: 34
    Thanks, that says my BMR is 1435 and as I go to gym 3-4 times a week now (moderately active) I should eat 2176 calories!

    That seems mental though.

    I'm so confused!

    At the moment I have 1374 as my calorie allowance. On Friday (and for months before that) it was 1260 but I had a suspicion this wasn't enough fuel for my body.

    Anybody else confused?
    Catherine

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