Calculated my BMR and my TDEE...what now??!

Freedomgurl585
Freedomgurl585 Posts: 196 Member
edited January 17 in Food and Nutrition
Hello everyone! I have been doing very well with my exercise and my logging but my weight loss is very slooow. I like slow don't get me wrong, it increases the likelihood of truly making this a lifestyle change. I wonder if I'm eating too little? I stay under my 1270 cals goal most days, and when I exercise i tend to eat those cals but not always. Ideas? I have a feeling my body is slowly going into starvation mode. =(

TDEE: 2163
BMR: 1802

I used this awesome site to do my numbers:
http://theskinnyequation.blogspot.com/p/weight-loss-calculators.html

Thanks in advance for reading and for any advice you guys are the best.

Nell

Replies

  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,251 Member
    That's step one! Now read this:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/912920-in-place-of-a-road-map-3-2013
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    Hello everyone! I have been doing very well with my exercise and my logging but my weight loss is very slooow. I like slow don't get me wrong, it increases the likelihood of truly making this a lifestyle change. I wonder if I'm eating too little? I stay under my 1270 cals goal most days, and when I exercise i tend to eat those cals but not always. Ideas? I have a feeling my body is slowly going into starvation mode. =(

    TDEE: 2163
    BMR: 1802

    I used this awesome site to do my numbers:
    http://theskinnyequation.blogspot.com/p/weight-loss-calculators.html

    Thanks in advance for reading and for any advice you guys are the best.

    Nell

    that's a really high BMR
  • Freedomgurl585
    Freedomgurl585 Posts: 196 Member
    shall I redo my BMR?
  • Freedomgurl585
    Freedomgurl585 Posts: 196 Member
    shall I redo my BMR?

    went to another site and it came out 1874.6!
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    It does seem really high....the info at the link posted up there is fantastic - it takes you step by step through the whole of calculating your numbers and setting them up here at MFP. Also recommends and tells you how to manually set your macro (carbs/fat/protein) percentages here, and the combination of the two has been fabulous for me! I've had the best results since following the info in the road map thread!
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    shall I redo my BMR?

    went to another site and it came out 1874.6!

    haha well there ya go! are you really tall or something? also what activity level are you selecting?
  • Freedomgurl585
    Freedomgurl585 Posts: 196 Member
    I'm choosing sedentary and now I'm 5'3". The thread was awesome I'm working on setting up my stuff now. Yay.
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    just because i'm curious... :P

    what does this calculator give you? http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

    it's the one I always use
  • Freedomgurl585
    Freedomgurl585 Posts: 196 Member
    thats the exact one I went to recalculate...1874.6. :grumble:
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    thats the exact one I went to recalculate...1874.6. :grumble:

    haha then hey listen, if you're getting multiple calcs to come up with the same numbers (or similar) then they're probably accurate! no worries! :)

    you're just one of the lucky few who gets to eat a good amount of food and still lose weight!
  • Freedomgurl585
    Freedomgurl585 Posts: 196 Member
    Well...ok thanks!
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,061 Member
    Take your TDEE and subtract 500 calories for 1lb a week loss.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • ginaNJ73
    ginaNJ73 Posts: 26
    I just did my #s too.... BMR at 1873. TDEE 2248. So, NinerBuff, I should be eating around 1700 ish to lose 1 lb a week? I've been eating about 1300 religiously and have seen some loss, but last 2 weeks, nothing. I am down 2 inches on my waist so something is happening, scale just not moving. Seriously INCREASE my cals? that is so scary!
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    I just did my #s too.... BMR at 1873. TDEE 2248. So, NinerBuff, I should be eating around 1700 ish to lose 1 lb a week? I've been eating about 1300 religiously and have seen some loss, but last 2 weeks, nothing. I am down 2 inches on my waist so something is happening, scale just not moving. Seriously INCREASE my cals? that is so scary!

    absolutely increase your cals. you're not eating NEAR enough food to lose weight at an optimal pace.

    yes that sounds backwards, but that's how it works.
  • Cincypsych
    Cincypsych Posts: 116 Member
    My numbers are about the same. This week I increased my food to 1700 calories , but am still netting under 1000. Do I still need to eat more and can the additional calories come from booze?
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    My numbers are about the same. This week I increased my food to 1700 calories , but am still netting under 1000. Do I still need to eat more and can the additional calories come from booze?

    your NET needs to be higher than your BMR and lower than your TDEE. You're gonna have to eat a lot more if you're really burning that many calories a day. OR you need to cut back on the exercise.

    as for the booze...... a little's ok, but to make up that much of a deficit you'd kill your macros.
  • inshapeeasy
    inshapeeasy Posts: 50
    Hey, you may not be exercising hard enough. You def want to get that heart rate up when ever you are exercising to lose weight. 1 to 2 pounds a week is good for weight loss. if you are losing inches that is good too! You have a decrease from calculating the BMR, now you have how many calories that you should eat. I think you are eating enough, just make sure that you are kicking "you no what" in the gym!

    Warm up exercises for you to check out that may help you

    http://www.isefitness.com/exercises/total-body-exercises/warm-exercises-cardio
  • Cincypsych
    Cincypsych Posts: 116 Member
    My numbers are about the same. This week I increased my food to 1700 calories , but am still netting under 1000. Do I still need to eat more and can the additional calories come from booze?

    your NET needs to be higher than your BMR and lower than your TDEE. You're gonna have to eat a lot more if you're really burning that many calories a day. OR you need to cut back on the exercise.

    as for the booze...... a little's ok, but to make up that much of a deficit you'd kill your macros.


    I use body media so my exercise calories should be accurate. Wow so I need to eat 2200 and burn my typical 500 to 700 per day
    Yikes sounds great but it is so difficult to wrap my head around eating more to lose

    Thanks for input!
This discussion has been closed.

Categories