After all the calculations what is the min net cals a day

grl82
grl82 Posts: 17 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello all

After all the calculations from bmr, tdee etc what is the bottom line safe net number of cals per day to lose weight

I'm male, 31, 172cm and 73 kgs.

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  • lemonlionheart
    lemonlionheart Posts: 580 Member
    How much weight do you want to lose? Your TDEE if you don't exercise is around 2000 calories. If you have less than 8kg to lose I would say .25kg per week loss is safe, so you'd want to subtract about 250 calories from that and net 1750 calories.
  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
    Enter your numbers into mfp with a reasonable weekly target and it will tell you what it it without exercise calories added. You are already just within a healthy weight range so it will be slow as you have little to lose
  • grl82
    grl82 Posts: 17 Member
    Hi, I have been on MFP program for about a week now...I think I went a bit too aggressive and mfp gave me a net cal intake of 1200...

    I have been eating around 1500-1700 but then working out and buring approx 700 per day.

    This has left me below the 1200 most days. I have not felt great on it and am now going to not be so aggressive this next week and try and have a net of 1300 and actually meet that by eating more etc on the days that I work out to give a sensible net cal intake per day.

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