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What equation are you using and is it working?

Roll_Tide_Meg
Roll_Tide_Meg Posts: 255 Member
edited January 21 in Health and Weight Loss
I am using this...

For WOMEN: 655 + (4.35 x Weight in pounds)+(4.7 x Height in inches) - (4.7x Age)= BMR The amount of calories your body burns just from being alive

FOR MEN: 66+(6.23 x weight in pounds) + (12.7 x height in inches) - ( 6.8 age in years)= BMR. that amount of calories you burn just from being alive.

Step 2: Take that number and multiply by your activity level:

1.2 Sedentary (little to no exercise)
1.375 Lightly Active (1-3 days a week)
1.55 Moderately Active (3-5 days a week)
1.7 Very Active (6-7 days a week)

Step 3:

LOSE weight: Subtract 500
MAINTAIN weight: keep the number the same
GAIN weight: Add 500

The final number is the amount of calories you should eat a day 8)

So mine is 1533.89 bc I am not exercising yet but that is less than my BMR (which is 1694)...so is this bad? I'm thinking I need to get into the lightly active at least so that I can eat 1830 and that way I'm eating at least up to my BMR...anyways..what are you using?

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  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    I use haybales spreadsheet. It uses the Katch-McArdle formula which takes into account BF%.

    So according to that formula my BMR is roughly around 1668.

    You plug in your activity (has different categories for activity types and you put hours/mins a week doing certain things). I left this blank since I'm mostly sedentary, and if you don't enter anything here, it gives you the numbers for sedentary. My reason for this is according to my pedometer I average 3000 steps a day, making me pretty sedentary.

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    So with that I eat at my BMR plus some of my exercise calories back.

    edit: shrinking it made it hard to see, but it pretty much says
    BMR: 1668
    TDEE: 2085
    TDEG: 1668
    Deficit: 417

    Oh and yes this method is working for me.
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    It's not that critical which one you use. Heybales' is very good and detailed but they are all estimates in the end. Pick one. Start on it. After 4 weeks measure results. If you are losing as predicted. Great. Losing faster than predicted, up calories by 100 at a time until you are where you should be. Losing slower that predicted, reduce calories by 100 until you are where you should be.
  • rsward
    rsward Posts: 45
    bump
  • TwinkieDong
    TwinkieDong Posts: 1,564 Member
    what is this?? ( 6.8 age in years) is that 6.8 + my age? or what is this?


    FOR MEN: 66+(6.23 x weight in pounds) + (12.7 x height in inches) - ( 6.8 age in years)= BMR. that amount of calories you burn just from being alive.
  • brent_woods
    brent_woods Posts: 32
    times
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,362 Member
    Im just using the 'plug your details into MFP and eat how many calories it tells you' method - is working well so far.
  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
    I use Shatner's Bassoon
  • lilsassymom
    lilsassymom Posts: 407 Member
    BUMP
  • WhataBroad
    WhataBroad Posts: 1,091 Member
    Im just using the 'plug your details into MFP and eat how many calories it tells you' method - is working well so far.

    love this!!! lol

    I use Heybales spreadsheet as well.
  • chelseybennett1
    chelseybennett1 Posts: 275 Member
    That number for BMR game me a number equal to my TDEE. I know this because I wear a bodymedia fit...?
  • 1223345
    1223345 Posts: 1,386 Member
    what is this?? ( 6.8 age in years) is that 6.8 + my age? or what is this?


    FOR MEN: 66+(6.23 x weight in pounds) + (12.7 x height in inches) - ( 6.8 age in years)= BMR. that amount of calories you burn just from being alive.

    I'm pretty sure it is supposed to be (6.8xage in years)
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    I follow the Road Map. It's working beautifully!

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/937712-in-place-of-a-road-map-ver-3-0
  • lindajay3
    lindajay3 Posts: 144 Member
    Bump
  • MsBobLoblaw
    MsBobLoblaw Posts: 171 Member
    I let Fitness Frog do the calculating for me: http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html
  • SteelySunshine
    SteelySunshine Posts: 1,092 Member
    Im just using the 'plug your details into MFP and eat how many calories it tells you' method - is working well so far.

    Yep doing that. Plus started exercising working pretty good so far.
  • 5RES
    5RES Posts: 4
    Me too! Right on track with just this program! :)
  • beyondjupiter
    beyondjupiter Posts: 247 Member
    Im just using the 'plug your details into MFP and eat how many calories it tells you' method - is working well so far.

    Yep doing that. Plus started exercising working pretty good so far.

    ^ Same.

    I know if you lose too fast you can gain the weight back. But if I am eating a balanced diet, am not hungry to eat more, but I am eating under my TDEE (2326) and under the calculation given by OP (1800) what harm is it really doing? If I'm hungry, I eat. Just not eating junk anymore.

    Jen
  • Yeller_Sensation
    Yeller_Sensation Posts: 373 Member
    I use this: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

    It has been working well for me in that I have much more energy now than I already had, my metabolism has increased because I've been fueling myself correctly for strength training, and weight maintenance has become more manageable. Life in general has also become simpler after I stopped logging exercise calories.
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