TDEE is everything

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  • julesg100
    julesg100 Posts: 109 Member
    Bump for later. Great thread!
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  • Denjo060
    Denjo060 Posts: 1,008
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  • tinamina78
    tinamina78 Posts: 241 Member
    Amazing wealth of information, thank you!!! I agree with the person who said it's atrocious the way MFP sets up newbies. I was one and I bought into the eating less than 1200 calories and it just made me feel like poo. Threads like these are so appreciated, thank you!!!
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  • contradel
    contradel Posts: 2 Member
    Sticky this guys at myfitnesspal. Pill diets or 10 days apple diets does not belong here in my opinion, keep that in the womens magazines. Yea and Euroman aswell.

    I also heard it's very important to keep your muscle mass when losing weigh, so eat alot of proteins, I heard that kasein is especially good for this purpose, I don't know if it's true though.
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  • rach2dee
    rach2dee Posts: 2 Member
    Do you practice what you preach? I looked at your food diary and 900 calories doesn't seem appropriate for a guy.
  • KatesBadAss
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  • klpruitt7
    klpruitt7 Posts: 56 Member
    awesome!
  • amerrill1
    amerrill1 Posts: 38
    Informative post. Thanks!
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    whoreheyR1 Posts: 135 Member
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  • WinLee
    WinLee Posts: 27
    Lots of info......BumP!!
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  • tlehrmann1019
    tlehrmann1019 Posts: 5
    Are the ones that you mentioned from Best Buy better than the one on here from FitBit? I've been using this for about 2 months, and although I have just about reached my goal, I want to be sure that I'm still eating the correct amount of calories after I've reached my limit. I'm in the Army and the exercises on here are not what we do on a daily basis and I have to guestimate on what I think is the closest to what I have done for our morning PT (Physical Training). Any help would be much appreicated. Thanks.
  • tlehrmann1019
    tlehrmann1019 Posts: 5
    Also guys it's alot easier to do this than you think.

    The hardest part is finding your TDEE which can be found a number of ways. The easiest way is to go to Best Buy or another store, and buy a Bodymedia FIT or a Bodybugg. Wear it every minute of every day (except in the shower) and give it a week or two and then see what your TDEE weekly average was for the 2 weeks you were wearing the device. Then calculate what you should eat daily based on my original post.

    Another way of getting TDEE is eat the same amount of calories every day, and weigh yourself once a week on the same day. See if your weight goes up or down each week. Don't weigh yourself every day. Once a week on the same day. The reason for this is water weight will fluctuate your weight levels making you think you're gaining weight when it was just excess water.

    Another way of getting TDEE is to use one of the formulas on the first page of this thread that I posted. One of them requires you to know your bodyfat% but it's pretty accurate once you find that out.

    There's alot of different ways of obtaining TDEE. Some are free, some cost. Some are more accurate than others, etc.

    I forgot to include the original post. Please see my previous post. Thanks.
  • LesaDave
    LesaDave Posts: 1,480 Member
    Thanks!
  • Amor1516
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  • Laceylala
    Laceylala Posts: 3,094 Member
    Yeay for this post....and using the very first post to figure it out, I've worn a body media fit for months on end so I know that on average I burn 2400 calories per day.

    2400x7=16800 (sometimes I'm one of those people :))
    16800-3500 = 13300
    13300/7= 1900 calories per day rain or shine exercise or not. (the 2400 cals per day is exercising on average 3-4 times per week for 30-45 minutes a day either doing kettlebell or walk/run intervals)

    For anyone just finding this thread - here are my stats in case you are thinking maybe you aren't eating enough... I weigh 213 and am 5' 4.5", 34 years old.

    I'm going to lower by cals to 1900 and try it for a week and see what it gets me when I weigh in next week..and come back here to post. I may need help if I don't see the scale move in time.

    THANKS!!
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  • 69Greer
    69Greer Posts: 36
    The most informative thread I have read on MFP since I began. Thanks
  • Tzippy7
    Tzippy7 Posts: 344 Member
    i think the way MFP sets up weight loss for the beginner is atrocious. Eating back poorly estimated exercise calories and setting most peoples daily calorie goal below BMR is terrible. No wonder 1/3 posts on this site is about stalling out. People leave themselves no where to go. Most of them exercise 5 times a week so its tough to add another day of exercise, and you sure as hell can reduce their calories anymore.


    Yess! This is exactly what is happening to me! I started out at 1200, working out 5-6 days a week and its slowed wayyyy down. I have started doing more strength training and the inches are coming off a bit but Im still at least 20 lbs away from a healthy weight. I recently calculated my BMR at 1417 and TDEE at 1296 but im not sure where to go from there!
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  • sunshinesonata
    sunshinesonata Posts: 241 Member
    totally reading this later.
  • AveryWays
    AveryWays Posts: 150 Member
    Love it! Definitely what I need to refresh and put things in perspective
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