JMBR and TDEE

TDEE can be generally estimated for 95% of the population by multiplying your bodyweight by 14-16.... for women 14xBW=TDEE, men are usually in the 15xBW to 16xBW range... no need to get very complex with equations and such. You'll never be 100% right.

If you are at a very high bodyfat percentage use the Katch-McArdle formula with Sedentary activity multiplier.

I originally posted this on the JMBR forum so apologies for doubling up.
What active level are you using when calculating your TDEE? I'm not sure if doing just JMBR 6 times a week would be lightly or moderately active? Many thanks!

If you use Scooby's Workshop to calc TDEE, he breaks it out by hours per week. Not sure how long JMBR is but assuing it's 30 minutes a day, 6 days a week would be 3 hours per week. So you're kind of on the borderline between light and moderate but you may be a more active person anyway. Eventhough my base is technically sedentary due to having a desk job, I try to do more active things every day like get up several times to get printing, park further away, take the stairs etc.
What I might do is take an average of the two and see how that works out for a few weeks.

http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

TDEE can be generally estimated for 95% of the population by multiplying your bodyweight by 14-16.... for women 14xBW=TDEE, men are usually in the 15xBW to 16xBW range... no need to get very complex with equations and such. You'll never be 100% right.

If you are at a very high bodyfat percentage use the Katch-McArdle formula with Sedentary activity multiplier.

I just did this very simplified version (14XBW) and it is spot on with numbers that I ran from other websites as well as numbers I got from a beach body coach. I think it was like a 15 calorie difference.