I'm *still* not confident I've got this figured out....

hookilau
hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
edited January 19 in Health and Weight Loss
ok...explain it to me like I'm 4, or like you're teaching a puppy sit :huh:
I started this thread earlier today but now I'm more confused than I was when I started out this morning. I seem to be having a bad communication day, so please be gentle with me.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/940191-i-m-not-sure-i-m-doing-it-right-anyone-care-to-check-me

I was totally trying to invoke the TDEE <20% and thought I was being smart by using a fibit zip but now I'm not so sure what cancels what out. Can you help me?:frown:

edited to add: speaking in complete sentences helps

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  • wnbrice
    wnbrice Posts: 244 Member
    BMR is the amount of energy you would use if you were basically in a coma, the bare minimum amount of energy used to keep you alive.

    TDEE is the amount of calories you actually burn everyday with activities like walking, talking, thinking etc

    So basically you want to stay above BMR with what you eat.

    So TDEE - 20% should be what you are looking for.

    So I think you said your TDEE was 1800 So you should be eating about 1440 with a 20% deficit. Which is still above your BMR I think you said of 1300.

    Any extra activity is going to increase your TDEE. So lets say for example you burned an extra 500 calories from working out. Your new TDEE would be 2300. So 80% of that would be 1840 calories for that day.

    In general when people are figuring out how much they are going to eat, they sort of average out their exercise and then eat at around that amount instead of changing it everyday.

    So lets say on average you burned an additional 400 a day in exercise, you would have a TDEE of 2200. So every day you would want to eat 1760.

    Let me know if I got it wrong at any point.
  • andrederosier
    andrederosier Posts: 121 Member
    Yes that is basically right what he said but just want to add you should always eat your BMR regardless of TDEE -20%. Most of the time you shouldn't have to worry except your rest days.

    If your TDEE was let's say the 1500 (low end of your 1500-1800 FitBit total) you would do your calculations and get 1500-300 = 1200. Your BMR was a little shy of 1300 so eating only 1200 calories would place you under what your body needs to just function.

    If you ever have this happen, make sure you still get your 1289 BMR calorie need.
  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
    :drinker: Yay!!!!
    I get it. Thank you, I just got so turned around with taking from column 'a' and adding to column 'b' then divide sum by zebra :huh:

    I totally understand now :wink:

    Since mr.fitbit communicates with MFP, on rest days, I can follow what MFP tells me to eat?....also, I added the weight training manually as suggested on MFP. It gave me an additional 150 cal or so for that, I get to eat that back right?
  • andrederosier
    andrederosier Posts: 121 Member
    Awesome everyday day can learn new things to improve. About those 150 calories you get now you can eat 120 of them back. This will change whenever you adjust your TDEE - XX% to meet your goal. When you reach maintenance weight you would eat all of it back.

    Sent a friend request and if you ever need help just drop me a message.
  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
    Thanks andre :drinker: I feel more confident now. You too wn :flowerforyou: Way to break it down, lol. The complete sentences worked. Can you tell there's no way I'd have been able to get an online degree :ohwell:

    The last part summed it up perfectly and it's easy to remember. :smooched:
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