Curious about the TDEE trend on MFP...
MzPix
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I have been on MFP for probably about 3 years now. Before that I was a sparkpeople member for about 4 years. I come from an obese family. I have siblings and close friends that have gone through gastric bypass anywhere from 10 years ago to just this year. I've pretty much been exposed to diet & exercise lingo for most of my 39 years on this Earth.
I've been noticing over the past 6 months or so a rapid increase in the mention of TDEE on MyFitnessPal.
But *only* on MyFitnessPal.
This is a term that has rarely, if ever, been uttered anywhere else where I am exposed to diet & exercise lingo (weight loss classes, support groups, bariatric centers, dietician offices, physicians, the local gym, WW, YMCA, etc.).
Because I am also an academic, I did some basic research on the term TDEE (as well as the phrase "total daily energy expenditure") in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and I was really surprised to find that the vast majority of abstracts that surfaced under the term were dated almost 20 years ago. I found a handful of articles after 2003 (which would make them academically "current") but most of them only mentioned TDEE in their methodology section as one of their numerous measurements. They weren't really articles focused on TDEE.
I'm very curious if anyone knows why or how the concept of TDEE became so popular and such a trendy topic in the past several months on MFP.
PS
This isn't a thread about what TDEE is, or whether it is the wrong or right choice for someone as a goal.
It's a thread about trending.
I'm trying to find discussion on why and how this particular piece of lingo might have became so popular so quickly on a particular internet forum (MFP) while not being advanced at all (or very negligibly) in other health and fitness (as well as professional medical) circles.
I've been noticing over the past 6 months or so a rapid increase in the mention of TDEE on MyFitnessPal.
But *only* on MyFitnessPal.
This is a term that has rarely, if ever, been uttered anywhere else where I am exposed to diet & exercise lingo (weight loss classes, support groups, bariatric centers, dietician offices, physicians, the local gym, WW, YMCA, etc.).
Because I am also an academic, I did some basic research on the term TDEE (as well as the phrase "total daily energy expenditure") in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and I was really surprised to find that the vast majority of abstracts that surfaced under the term were dated almost 20 years ago. I found a handful of articles after 2003 (which would make them academically "current") but most of them only mentioned TDEE in their methodology section as one of their numerous measurements. They weren't really articles focused on TDEE.
I'm very curious if anyone knows why or how the concept of TDEE became so popular and such a trendy topic in the past several months on MFP.
PS
This isn't a thread about what TDEE is, or whether it is the wrong or right choice for someone as a goal.
It's a thread about trending.
I'm trying to find discussion on why and how this particular piece of lingo might have became so popular so quickly on a particular internet forum (MFP) while not being advanced at all (or very negligibly) in other health and fitness (as well as professional medical) circles.
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I believe it just caught on because a handful of knowledgeable member found it was an easy way to talk about maintenance calories. I know I have been using it for years on here and it wasn't as talked about when I joined.
You might also see some articles in the NIH or American Journal of Medical that reference TEE (total energy expended)0 -
I heard about TDEE on a website called scoobywrokshop.com The calorie calcluator there uses it.
I am not an expert in this but this made sense to me. I like it because it gives you a gross number that included exercise. I was skeptical of the calorie burn estimates and do not have a heart rate monitor.0 -
I switched to the "TDEE" method because it was just easier to plan my days out having a set, gross calorie intake. I waited until I had a very set exercise routine and I was being consistent. Once I was consistent in my exercise I just made the switch. When I did the MFP method i had net 1850 calories to lose 1 Lb per week and then ate back my exercise calories (about 70% of my HRM to account for estimation error) and grossed between 2100-2200 calories (and occasionally more)...which made planning my day out somewhat difficult. I pre-plan all of my meals and snacks so it's just easier to have a set amount to work with. When I switched to TDEE - 20% my calorie goal came out to 2150 gross calories...so pretty much 6 of 1...just easier to plan.
It has worked to lose and it works to maintain. I think it goes by several other names as well. TDEE, TEE, etc.0 -
It seems that people have taken to using TDEE because they've had more success with it than the MFP calculator. The MFP calculator tends to put people at a generally too low range so they don't lose well, then they switch to TDEE which ups their intake above their BMR causing them to actually start losing again. I think it's more "individualized" than the MFP calculator.0
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