TDEE calculation?

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  • selina884
    selina884 Posts: 826 Member
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    Your TDEE is your maintenance level of calories per a given activity level. To lose weight, you eat below your TDEE...i.e. a calorie deficit from maintenance. The calorie goal MFP gives you has a calorie deficit in it...judging by those numbers I'd say you put your goal to lose 2 Lbs per week...roughly 1,000 calorie per day deficit from TDEE.

    TDEE is maintenance...MFP's goal is a deficit from maintenance.

    Keep in mind that MFP uses your NEAT for activity level calculation (Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis)...so doesn't include exercise as part of your daily activity which is why you're supposed to eat back exercise calories per the MFP method.

    TDEE does include exercise as TDEE is Total Daily Energy Expenditure...it's everything....if you use the TDEE method (i.e. TDEE-x%). Do not confuse the two methods or you will jack yourself up.

    1000 calorie deficit? Jesus Christ.

    Please stop giving such silly advise.
  • selina884
    selina884 Posts: 826 Member
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    Deficit is usually a deduction of 10-20% of TDEE
  • Kamile69
    Kamile69 Posts: 87
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    A friend shared another link with me http://www.cordianet.com/calculator.htm and here is what it gave me:

    Caloric Need:

    Estimated Base BMR: 1244 Calories.
    Estimated TDEE: 1929 Calories.
    Estimated Daily Caloric Need For Weight Loss: 1429 Calories.

    If this is accurate, then my eating 1370 is way under what I should be eating! Very interesting...
    Thank you! I'm not trying to make it difficult, I just didn't understand. I appreciate what you are saying.
    Why you making this so complicated?

    If you're following MFP guidelines eat back your calories. If you're not, dont.

    If you're obese, take away 20% from your TDEE
    if you're over weight take away 15% from your TDEE
    i you're normal take away 10% from your TDEE.

    that's it.... no TDEE calculator will give you a perfect answer, they're all estimates...
  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,564 Member
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    A friend shared another link with me http://www.cordianet.com/calculator.htm and here is what it gave me:

    Caloric Need:

    Estimated Base BMR: 1244 Calories.
    Estimated TDEE: 1929 Calories.
    Estimated Daily Caloric Need For Weight Loss: 1429 Calories.

    If this is accurate, then my eating 1370 is way under what I should be eating! Very interesting...

    5'4"?
  • OdiEtAmoTe
    OdiEtAmoTe Posts: 5 Member
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    I'm rather confused about TDEE. I just went onto a site that says my TDEE is 2297 per day. If that is true, should I be eating more calories than my alloted 1370?

    I don't understand how MFP says one number, 1370 then this site say 2297, which will increase when I go back to work in May!

    Thanks for your input :flowerforyou:

    This website didn't work for you: http://www.health-calc.com/diet/energy-expenditure-advanced

    It's pretty much dead-on accurate for me, as long as you are truthful about the exercise levels. It seems like intense is 13.5+ METs, moderate is 7-8ish, and light is 4-5ish.
  • Kamile69
    Kamile69 Posts: 87
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    A friend shared another link with me http://www.cordianet.com/calculator.htm and here is what it gave me:

    Caloric Need:

    Estimated Base BMR: 1244 Calories.
    Estimated TDEE: 1929 Calories.
    Estimated Daily Caloric Need For Weight Loss: 1429 Calories.

    If this is accurate, then my eating 1370 is way under what I should be eating! Very interesting...

    5'2" actually
    5'4"?

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