my TDEE IS 4400 calories ..how much shod i aim to lose?

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  • ZoeLifts
    ZoeLifts Posts: 10,347 Member
    I'd go with using MFP as designed rather than TDEE.

    With a lot to lose, you can set it to lose 2lb a week - it will come off much quicker to start with anyhow. If you find you're really hungry, adjust up to lose 1.5 or 1lb a week. Set your activity level to your lifestyle, not including exercise. Note that in MFP the planned exercise days you enter does not affect your daily calorie total.

    Log your exercise as and when you do it and MFP will add those extra "exercise calories" calories to your daily total. Eat back a good proportion of them - though with more to lose, if you're not hungry don't feel obliged to eat them all

    For me and several MFP friends this works better than TDEE as you only eat for the exercise you actually do, not what you plan.

    Good luck! :flowerforyou:

    Not to speak for the OP, but I'd be willing to bet he started with MFP's but eventually advanced to figuring out what all the numbers mean so he can be more accurate. MFP calculates all of that stuff as well and is just another TDEE calculator, but you really don't see the workings of it because is simplifies things. Plus, MFP overestimates, in my opinion, and is not always accurate (read: tells everyone to eat 1200 calories no matter what)
  • ZoeLifts
    ZoeLifts Posts: 10,347 Member
    You have gotten some great advice.


    Try not to stress too much about the numbers. The calculators are just a guess.


    Thing is to something you will stick with. pick something, and adjust as needed after a few weeks.
    ^^QFT
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    At 5'6" and 300 lbs you've got to be more fat than muscle and you don't need to feed the fat. I'd use sedentary for your activity level and then add any intentional exercise you do (things where you actually hit the gym). You can decide if you want to eat those back. The calculators are all set up for the "normal" person and your stats don't even come close to fitting that category. Once you get off the end the charts are really skewed because they're giving numbers based on an assumed lean body mass.
  • Kim55555
    Kim55555 Posts: 987 Member
    Hi

    I've heard it's always better to start at a higher calorie amount than lower. If you start too low you have no where to go if/when you plateau. How about eating 3000 and see how that goes.

    Good luck! :)
  • weird_me2
    weird_me2 Posts: 716 Member
    ok i have recalculated using 3 sites and they all said same thing...4400

    seems some forgetting that i said i exercise 6/7 days per week

    adding with my heavy weight im thinking its logical....otherwise im confused :(

    I would get your body fat % tested or estimate it and use a TDEE calculator based on your weight/body fat % instead of weight/height/age. There's a very good change that you have a higher body fat % than is estimated on the calculators. I did your calculations based on 300 lbs and 50% body fat hard exercise 6-7 days a week and your TDEE only comes to 3173. HUGE difference!
  • StormyGal8
    StormyGal8 Posts: 184 Member
    Wow that's a SUPER high TDEE. I am 5'7 and 244lbs (started at 295) and I eat 1600-1800 calories a day, and am consistently losing 2.5-3lbs per week if I stay on plan. I walk 5-6 miles a day (often at 3.5 miles per hour or faster) for work.

    The only time I eat back any exercise calories is if I do an actual workout (as opposed to my daily walking etc), and then I only eat back half.
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    Wow that's a SUPER high TDEE. I am 5'7 and 244lbs (started at 295) and I eat 1600-1800 calories a day, and am consistently losing 2.5-3lbs per week if I stay on plan. I walk 5-6 miles a day (often at 3.5 miles per hour or faster) for work.

    The only time I eat back any exercise calories is if I do an actual workout (as opposed to my daily walking etc), and then I only eat back half.
    If you're losing 2.5lbs a week, your TDEE is around 3100-3300 you know :) and he's a guy, which helps.

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