TDEE

nylcaj8410
nylcaj8410 Posts: 22 Member
edited November 13 in Health and Weight Loss
Could someone help me better understand TDEE. I'm 30 5'5 131 pounds I work a boring desk job but I do work out hard when I get home from work doing insanity.

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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    TDEE is total daily energy expenditure, the amount of energy you burn during the day.
    http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/
  • nylcaj8410
    nylcaj8410 Posts: 22 Member
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    TDEE is total daily energy expenditure, the amount of energy you burn during the day.
    http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/

    So I want to eat what it says for the daily calorie intake for question 6? That's what I am confused with
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Step 6 is your goal? Put all your values in (activity level etc.), and at the bottom it will tell you what caloric allowance you need to achieve that.
  • CJohn364
    CJohn364 Posts: 6 Member
    So, given a person's TDEE, does the MFP app automatically calculate the deficit needed to lose weight from the data that you enter in your profile? Should I eat the amount of calories that are calculated. For example, the app suggests 1,750 calories per day without exercise. Say I workout and burn 250 calories. 1,750+250=2,000; should I eat the 2,000 calories that's calculated?
  • slondro
    slondro Posts: 45 Member
    edited February 2015
    CJohn364 wrote: »
    So, given a person's TDEE, does the MFP app automatically calculate the deficit needed to lose weight from the data that you enter in your profile? Should I eat the amount of calories that are calculated. For example, the app suggests 1,750 calories per day without exercise. Say I workout and burn 250 calories. 1,750+250=2,000; should I eat the 2,000 calories that's calculated?

    On its default setting, MFP doesn't calculate TDEE--it calculates your average daily expenditure, minus purposeful exercise. TDEE calculators (like the one Lifting4Lis linked) ask your level of physical activity because they factor that in, giving you one number that includes everything.

    If you input your TDEE manually, you wouldn't need to input individual physical activities anymore.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    CJohn364 wrote: »
    So, given a person's TDEE, does the MFP app automatically calculate the deficit needed to lose weight from the data that you enter in your profile? Should I eat the amount of calories that are calculated. For example, the app suggests 1,750 calories per day without exercise. Say I workout and burn 250 calories. 1,750+250=2,000; should I eat the 2,000 calories that's calculated?

    If you're following MFP way, then yes you would add in the exercise to come up to 2000. TDEE is a calculation which already includes your exercise, so is going to be a higher number. To lose weight, usually people eat TDEE -20%.
  • nylcaj8410
    nylcaj8410 Posts: 22 Member
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    Step 6 is your goal? Put all your values in (activity level etc.), and at the bottom it will tell you what caloric allowance you need to achieve that.

    Ok so I need to eat 1715 to loose weight?!? 3d1xbse6jxlv.jpg
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    YEP^
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    But can I just add, why the 1lb/week goal? With 21lb to lose you might find that the 0.5lb/week goal is more reasonable and easier to stick to. I've got 15lbs before reaching my goal, max 20lbs if I go to my lower goal, and the 1lb/week rate is too steep for me!
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