High BMR?

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justdoit1106
justdoit1106 Posts: 20 Member
Hi,
After reading loads of posts, I've decided to go the TDEE/Macro way of life. I'm going to carry on with a little cardio and increase weights. I've worked out my BMR/TDEE and Cut and here are the figures;
BMR: 1708
TDEE: 2349
Cut 20%: 1879
I'm just wondering if my BMR sounds high? And the difference of my BMR and Cut is only 171 calories. So just to double check I've got this right: I need to consume 1708 calories daily, but not go over 1879. If I eat 1750 and burn 400 cals at the gym, I need to eat back 358 calories to get back within my BMR.
I'm female, 33, cw: 202 lb, height: 5'9, lightly active (work from home a couple days a week, rest of the time running around after my 19 month old son, work out at the gym 4 days a week, and I try to do Callanetics in the evenings).
Thanks for your help in advance.

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  • justdoit1106
    justdoit1106 Posts: 20 Member
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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
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    I show your Mifflin BMR as 1686, as that calc is 5% more accurate than Harris you used, yes yours is inflated.
    And if you had bodyfat % estimate for more accurate Katch BMR, it could be even lower, or higher.

    So the problem with the rough 5 level TDEE table, it assumes foundation of sedentary desk job and commute 45 hrs weekly.

    You are lightly active with just your kiddo by itself. Because you have 5 days of week of NOT work, right, 45 hr job-like time NOT sedentary at desk job.
    Is exercise by itself really only 3 hrs a week?

    The two together are NOT Lightly Active level at all, Moderately active depending on how much time in your workout and what it is you don't mention. Cardio and lifting, so good. But 3 hrs of walking daily isn't the same as a 15 warmup on treadmill, right?
    And 4 days a week and evening workout.
    Be honest, 4-5 hr is Moderately Active if just exercise, your daily life would bump that up too.

    Be aware that when figure out your exercise calories, you better have 1 really accurate burn figure, and a HRM isn't it for lifting.
    Cardio likely is, depending on how accurate it is for you.

    Now, even if dead on accurate with reported calorie burn, that is in total, what you would have burned during that time, and what you burned extra. In other words total Gross burn, NOT the NET burn over and above.

    So doing the math with BMR and partial eatback is incorrect using Gross figure.

    You already have account for every hour of your day an expected level of burn too, so what you really want is what did you burn above and beyond already accounted for.

    What is already accounted for?
    Your TDEE.
    So TDEE / 24 = what you planned on burning already.

    So whatever the HRM reports per hour, subtract that amount from the figure for how much you burned above and beyond.
    Same with looking at strength training with MFP, which is more accurate than HRM, must subtract those calories.

    So, got some corrections to your activity level and BMR, and if BF% known perhaps even more.
  • justdoit1106
    justdoit1106 Posts: 20 Member
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    Thank you heybales!