What equation are you using and is it working?
Roll_Tide_Meg
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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?
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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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.
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.0 -
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.0
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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.0 -
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Im just using the 'plug your details into MFP and eat how many calories it tells you' method - is working well so far.0
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I use Shatner's Bassoon0
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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.0 -
That number for BMR game me a number equal to my TDEE. I know this because I wear a bodymedia fit...?0
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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)0 -
I follow the Road Map. It's working beautifully!
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/937712-in-place-of-a-road-map-ver-3-00 -
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I let Fitness Frog do the calculating for me: http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html0
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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.0 -
Me too! Right on track with just this program!0
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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.
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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.0
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