Level Obstacles: Lose Weight, Target Fat! (EASY!!)

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Could anyone give some advice on what they think my activity level is, or whether or not I'm better off setting my activity at sedentary and eating back my exercise cals?

4 days a week I walk my nans collie around 3 miles. 6 days a week (including the 4 I walk my nans dog), I walk my own dog 3-4miles a day. Each day I'm trying to do 30DS. I'm on day 14 tomorrow so this will change after day 30 and I have no idea how much I'll be doing then.

Since my exercise varies so much from day to day, is it better to calculate my TDEE using sedentary and eat back exercise calories. I usually eat back half of what runkeeper tells me I've burned through walking, to take into account error.

I'm 5'2, 145lbs. 25 years old (26 in June). From the fitnessfrog:

At little or no exercise TDEE = 1739. So would I then use TDEE-20%= 1391. And eat back the exercise as I've been doing?

I did IPOARM and it gave me TDEE-20% of 1222. I then ate back the exercise using runkeeper for walking, and MFP for 30DS.

I've only been doing this 3 weeks, and I'm scared of eating too little. There is a difference of 200 though in the IPOARM and this method. So I'm not sure which to use :-/. IPOARM took into account my body fat which 3 weeks ago was around 40 (done by using the fat2fit ratio site).

I'd really like to get this sorted now before I go much further and end up slowing my metabolism down! Using the method now (1222+exercise cals), I'm eating between 1400 - 1600/1700 a day depending on exercise. Should I just keep doing this?

Regarding exercise, sounds moderately active at the least. You can also do sedentary and eat back exercise calories, but some of MFP's database has optimistic calorie burns - perhaps eat 50 - 75% of those calories back.

200 calories is certainly going to be less than the margin for error in the online calculators - split the difference, try it for six weeks, and see what your results look like - by the scale as well as measurements (waist, etc).

Thanks. I always use runkeeper to monitor walking calories, but just halve what it gives me. With 30 Day Shred I use circuit training general and just whatever MFP tells me. I figure between halving for the walking and using MFP for 30DS it probably works out. I think sticking to sedentary then and adding calorie will help. Maybe a happy medium between the two methods and go for 1300 + exercise and see how I go for six weeks?

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