TDEE/BMR vs. MFP calculator

The 1600 would include your exercise already, so the differences might not be that much.

However, with 20 pounds you want to lose a 30% deficit might be a bit much. Aim for 15-20% below instead. Or set your MFP goal to one pound a week, and eat most of your exercise calories, and as you get closer to your goal, switch it to a half pound a week.

And be sure to track your progress through more than just the scale. If that's a recent photo, I can't see where you could possibly take 20 pounds from... you look great! If you track measurements, how clothes fit and photos, you might find you reach your dream body long before you reach your goal weight.

The 1600 would include your exercise already, so the differences might not be that much.

However, with 20 pounds you want to lose a 30% deficit might be a bit much. Aim for 15-20% below instead. Or set your MFP goal to one pound a week, and eat most of your exercise calories, and as you get closer to your goal, switch it to a half pound a week.

And be sure to track your progress through more than just the scale. If that's a recent photo, I can't see where you could possibly take 20 pounds from... you look great! If you track measurements, how clothes fit and photos, you might find you reach your dream body long before you reach your goal weight.

this girl speaks the truth, and look at her results you look great!

Based on what you said, I'd put you at 2,000. That's a 15% deficit. I don't believe you are in any rush. Just slow and easy. Eating 2,000, you should lose and should not stall.

Everyone is not different. LOL. Everyone is the same. That's why modern medicine works. That's why pot makes everyone high, and alcohol makes everyone drunk. Everyone is the same. This 'everyone is different' crap is stupid. Don't buy into that myth. Eat at a deficit, and you will lose. It's that simple. While the TDEE estimate might be off a bit, it's not a big deal. Everything is off. Your scale is off, the calories on packages are off by at least 20% or more. Everything is just estimates. Just relaz and take it slow. If you eat at 2000 and dont lose any weight in a couple weeks, drop 100 calories, and try that. Keep making small adjustments until it starts working. It's really simple. Don't over complicate it.

I have the same question with the same issue. I've been eating 1200 for 5 weeks with a loss of only 2lbs and my tdee-20% is 1580 so i have upped my calories to 1500 and i'm gonna see how that goes. This is all confusing and conflicting to me so I should probably see a nutritionalist as well. It wasn't this hard packing on the lbs, wish it was easier taking them off. hehe

I have the same question with the same issue. I've been eating 1200 for 5 weeks with a loss of only 2lbs and my tdee-20% is 1580 so i have upped my calories to 1500 and i'm gonna see how that goes. This is all confusing and conflicting to me so I should probably see a nutritionalist as well. It wasn't this hard packing on the lbs, wish it was easier taking them off. hehe

I've been in the same position as you, and I've searched exhaustively for definitive information, asked on this forum and in the end it is a definitely worth seeing a nutritionist.

your 1500 plan sounds like a good idea tho

Everyone is not different. LOL. Everyone is the same. That's why modern medicine works. That's why pot makes everyone high, and alcohol makes everyone drunk. Everyone is the same. This 'everyone is different' crap is stupid. Don't buy into that myth.

yah... we're all the same height and the same build and on the same medications with the same health concerns.

cause everyones allergic to penicillin, or peanuts, or anesthetic, or bees.

we all must have the same metabolism, speak the same language and are the same sex.

TELL THE UNITED NATIONS! WE ARE ALL ONE. IT WAS A MYTH.

Eat at a deficit, and you will lose. It's that simple.

everything after that is good advice, and you are right, for most people using TDEE / BMR online is fine. I just tell people to go to a nutritionist when people say "1200"

Since you don't understand, there's no point discussing it. Everyone is not different. Yes, some people have some unique issues that are different from the mean. But most people are the same. Its just a fact. Physics and biochemistry prove it over and over.

I know you are passionate and think you are right, so I'm not going to sit here and debate. You're not right. Everyone, meaning the majority of people are pretty much exactly the same in terms of what we are talking about...eating less than you burn.

After I replied I thought "actually everyone is not vastly different, the vast majority are similar and and most are close enough to call the same"

hats off to you good sir/madam :glasses:

I have the same questions..
When your eating between BMR & TDEE or TDEE - 15% (for example).. should you still log exercise and eat those calories back or its all part of the intial calories?

No, in theory, at least, your exercise is figured in, but if you put in fewer days than you actually exercise, then your TDEE will be low. I actually average mine between moderately and very active (I work out 5 or 6 days a week and walk around a lot at work). So why not figure TDEE at both and give yourself somewhere in between the two.