Help with numbers plz!!

13mjames
13mjames Posts: 17 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Puhlease help me figure out my numbers!!! ok Im female, 5'8, 157 pounds. I know my Bmr is 1500 give or take 10 calories depending on the calculator used. Where i get confused is in calculating my Tdee. I work out 5-6 days a week, but other than that I am pretty sedentary. So Im not sure what to put as my activity level. Im looking to see what would you put if you were me....and how much percentage would you subtract from the Tdee to lose weight. my goal is to get to 140, but honestly I do alot of heavy lifting so Im not too hung up on what the scale says so much as what my body looks like. Im looking to get a minimum to maximum calorie range. Also...do i eat the same amount on my rest day??? Thanks in advance.

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  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    Why not just use MFP's calculations and add your exercise separately? Or use TDEE at sedentary and add exercise as you do it? I find trying to estimate my exercise for TDEE to be nearly impossible because I do a lot of different thing. I like to keep track of exercise separately although I don't eat that back anyway.
  • palmerar
    palmerar Posts: 489 Member
    See what the difference is between lightly and moderately active, and maybe go somewhere in between?? I use lightly active because I have a desk job, work out 1-3 times a week and have 2 part time jobs 1 as a waitress and 1 as a dance teacher. I am always moving but not always burning major calories. I still put my exercise into MFP but try to only eat back exercise cals to my TDEE- 20% level.
  • 13mjames
    13mjames Posts: 17 Member
    Thanks for replying. I hadnt thought of doing my tdee like that. So I can figure out my tdee based on a sedentary level, subtract 20%, and then set that number as my daily calorie goal, log my exvercise and eat those calories as well?
  • RogueNanna
    RogueNanna Posts: 23 Member
    Thanks for replying. I hadnt thought of doing my tdee like that. So I can figure out my tdee based on a sedentary level, subtract 20%, and then set that number as my daily calorie goal, log my exvercise and eat those calories as well?


    That's what I would do. Exercise is something separate from general activity level. But it doesn't sound like you are truly sedentary. Don't short change yourself with too few calories. You can always reduce your basic calorie consumption if you aren't loosing, but if you start out too low you might stall and have no room to safely reduce calories.

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