Is MFP TDEE likely to be too high or two low

jaz050465
jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
edited January 4 in Fitness and Exercise
I'm within my healthy range and so not much to lose. I'm eating my TDEE us most of my exercise caliries. I'm not losing pounds or inches though. I've read in lots if posts that I should therefore adjust my calories to see what works for me. Shoukd I go up or down first and by how any. I'm 5ft 7/8, female, 47 and weigh 149 pounds. My TDEE on sedentary according to MFP is 1450.

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  • girlie100
    girlie100 Posts: 646 Member
    as you are already at a healthy weight loosing lbs will become more difficult, I have found that the MFP TDEE comes up low. Either use an external calculator and manually change your goals or make sure you have MFP set to 0.5lb per week. Now MFP will factor in a deficit to what goal you have selected, add exercise to that and then you have increased the deficit further. you may find it easier to calculate your TDEE to include your activity and then take a 15-20% cut from there, and also if you are not doing so already then add some resistance training in 3-5 times a week. Try this for a month and evaluate after :smile:

    I switched to my moderate activity TDEE with a 20% cut 2 months ago and have been loosing inches since then. Good luck :happy:
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    Are you trying to maintain your weight? That's what eating at TDEE and eating back your exercise calories will do, as TDEE is the amount you need to maintain your current weight.

    I eat at what is presumably my TDEE, but I use my exercise calories as my deficit, meaning I don't eat them back.

    It is not surprising that you aren't losing pounds or inches if I am interpreting this correctly. Do you mean to say BMR?
  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    Sorry- got it wrong. . I've set MFP to lose half pound a week. The 1450 is that amount, not my TDEE.
  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    Now I've clarified what I meant to say, any suggestions. Don't want to waste another month not losing- should I eat more or less? Are the MFP calorie allowances accurate?
  • ninjakowski
    ninjakowski Posts: 158
    Take a look at this:

    http://www.iifym.com/tdee-calculator

    You can calculate your TDEE a little more accurately than on MFP (which is just sedentary, lightly active etc) by calculating how much time you spend each day at different activity levels.

    For me, MFP's calculation was a little lower than this website, I'm sure that differs for everybody though depending on what your average day looks like.

    *edited to add - dont include any exercise that you would normally log on MFP when you use this calculator if you want to compare the value with the one MFP gives you.
  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    I made it 1817, compared to MFP of 1690 so 110 different. ( the 1450 I quoted earlier accounted for a 250 deficit to lose half a pound a week).
  • jaz050465
    jaz050465 Posts: 3,508 Member
    Still don't understand why eating less isn't meaning I'm losing more bits not like I'm eating really low!!!
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