BMR Question

tinabowl1
tinabowl1 Posts: 8
edited September 19 in Health and Weight Loss
Okay I just read that they said that you should at least eat your bmr calories a day at least, well what if my BMR calories are more than the suggested calorie intake for me. Like my BMR said that i would lose 1944 calories just by resting, but when I typed in that i wanted to lose 2 lbs a week, it said thay my calorie intake should be 1400, So now I don't know what to do, I am confused!

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  • tinabowl1
    tinabowl1 Posts: 8
    Okay I just read that they said that you should at least eat your bmr calories a day at least, well what if my BMR calories are more than the suggested calorie intake for me. Like my BMR said that i would lose 1944 calories just by resting, but when I typed in that i wanted to lose 2 lbs a week, it said thay my calorie intake should be 1400, So now I don't know what to do, I am confused!
  • saskia
    saskia Posts: 31
    I guess it means if you eat 1944 calories and don't exercise, you will stay at the same weight. In order to loose 2 pounds a week, you need to cut 544 calories a day.
  • dewpearl
    dewpearl Posts: 561 Member
    I guess it means if you eat 1944 calories and don't exercise, you will stay at the same weight. In order to loose 2 pounds a week, you need to cut 544 calories a day.

    Yep. To maintain, you body needs to be fed daily with 1944 calories. That is, no activity at all.
    " It takes 3,500 calories to equal one pound of body weight." (http://www.dietbites.com/diet-pound.html)
    So, if you want to lose twice that much in a week, that is the deficit. Divide that by 7, subtract it from 1944 and there you go :).

    Every calorie burned, gives you the chance to eat it, while still having the deficit you computed above ;).

    Makes sense?

    P.S. All my gratitude goes to MFPs, from whom I learned this :flowerforyou:
  • Hanna1983
    Hanna1983 Posts: 251
    OK here is my question...

    I just calculated my BMR on here as well and it said

    Your estimated BMR is: 1,472 calories/day*

    so to lose 1lb per week I should cut it by 500 cals which means I would have to eat no more than 972 calories per day. yet MFP calculated for me 1340 cals per day....

    I am totally confused now! Please help :-( :ohwell:
  • dewpearl
    dewpearl Posts: 561 Member
    OK here is my question...

    I just calculated my BMR on here as well and it said

    Your estimated BMR is: 1,472 calories/day*

    so to lose 1lb per week I should cut it by 500 cals which means I would have to eat no more than 972 calories per day. yet MFP calculated for me 1340 cals per day....

    I am totally confused now! Please help :-( :ohwell:

    Did it say 1340cal or 1200 cal & you earned today 140cal from exercise?

    I think MFP does not go lower than 1200 cal, which is the minimum healthy amount of cals to have daily.
  • dewpearl
    dewpearl Posts: 561 Member
    I guess it means if you eat 1944 calories and don't exercise, you will stay at the same weight. In order to loose 2 pounds a week, you need to cut 544 calories a day.

    Yep. To maintain, you body needs to be fed daily with 1944 calories. That is, no activity at all.
    " It takes 3,500 calories to equal one pound of body weight." (http://www.dietbites.com/diet-pound.html)
    So, if you want to lose twice that much in a week, that is the deficit. Divide that by 7, subtract it from 1944 and there you go :).

    Every calorie burned, gives you the chance to eat it, while still having the deficit you computed above ;).

    Makes sense?

    P.S. All my gratitude goes to MFPs, from whom I learned this :flowerforyou:

    Oh, gosh, I can't believe I said that before a maths class. It doesn't make sense to me now! 3500 divided by 7 is already 500. Mmm....
  • dewpearl
    dewpearl Posts: 561 Member
    Bump.
    People, how does the maths here go? :embarassed:

    Cheers :flowerforyou:
  • Sapporo
    Sapporo Posts: 693 Member
    "Your BMR does not include the calories you burn from normal daily activities or exercise."

    There is a multiplier you use for normal daily activities based on being sedentary, light activity, moderate, etc. Mine is 1.2 for light I think. I don't remember the whole scale, sorry.
  • scaredofcoasters
    scaredofcoasters Posts: 90 Member
    From what I heard, you should eat your BMR calories, but stay under your maintain calories. I'm doing that by eating 1900 calories a day, which is 350 under my maintain cals. My BMR was around 1800.
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