What's your caloric deficit, how did you calculate it, how easy is it to stick with it?
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shadow2soul wrote: »I think it's probably because TDEE stands for Total Daily Energy Expenditure. If your calculating it a Sedentary TDEE when your not Sedentary, it's not your TDEE. It ends up being similar to MFP's method of using NEAT (calculating your daily burn without exercise and then adding exercise in).
If you're blurring the lines between Sedentary and Lightly Active, then it would be wise to calculate your TDEE at both activity levels and use the middle figure.
TDEE is a maintenance calorie value (no weight gained, no weight loss if followed). It is based on more than activity level, including height, weight, age, etc.0 -
Maintenance for me is about 2,200 calories*, as determined by the best fit line of my giant spreadsheet. My MFP target is set to 1,800, but my average consumption runs more like 1,900. So about a 300 calorie / 14% deficit.
* I count by eyeball. Internet calculators based on my age / size / gender / activity level say maintenance for me is more like 1,650. Assuming I'm mostly losing fat, rather than muscle, I've still got a 300-calorie-per-day deficit, based on my long-term trend in weight change. So it's possible (but IMHO unlikely) that if I measured everything with a gram scale and a calorimeter, I'd find I'm really consuming 1,350 calories a day, and have an 18% deficit.0 -
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If you're blurring the lines between Sedentary and Lightly Active, then it would be wise to calculate your TDEE at both activity levels and use the middle figure.
TDEE is a maintenance calorie value (no weight gained, no weight loss if followed). It is based on more than activity level, including height, weight, age, etc.
Interesting. When I take your approach (averaging lightly active and sedentary TDEE correction factors) and then factor in my desired caloric deficit (25%) I get a number much closer to what MFP suggests (a higher overall net caloric allotment).
Using my approach, my adjusted TDEE plus 25% deficit = 1812
Using your approach, my adjusted TDEE plus 25% deficit = 1944
Using MFP's built in approach = 2078
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asflatasapancake wrote: »I sacrificed a chicken and gave it to the MFP gods. They returned with their magical number of 2320 calories. I checked with a few other sources as well as calculated it through math and stuff. It's about right. From what I've been told, all of the meat from the sacrificed chicken was used to feed the hungry around the world.
Your method is as good as any. Eat 2,320 calories for a few weeks, then reevaluate your progress.0 -
asflatasapancake wrote: »I sacrificed a chicken and gave it to the MFP gods. They returned with their magical number of 2320 calories. I checked with a few other sources as well as calculated it through math and stuff. It's about right. From what I've been told, all of the meat from the sacrificed chicken was used to feed the hungry around the world.
That was my method too.
Only the magic number was 1250 cal.
Maybe my chicken was too small.
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asflatasapancake wrote: »I sacrificed a chicken and gave it to the MFP gods. They returned with their magical number of 2320 calories. I checked with a few other sources as well as calculated it through math and stuff. It's about right. From what I've been told, all of the meat from the sacrificed chicken was used to feed the hungry around the world.0
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