BMR....???

Reni421
Reni421 Posts: 35 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
How do you use BMR? Is this the amount of calories you should eat each day? Or should you eat more or less than the BMR to lose weight? This site is the first time I've seen this, and I'm not really sure how to use the info...what do you guys do? Do most eat excercise calories or not? Thanks!! :smile:

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  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    The BMR number is the calories your body needs to live if you stayed in bed all day or in a coma. You need to eat at least that many calories *net* (Net = Calories Eaten-Calories Burned). BMR number can be different depending on what calculation you use. Most people use the BMR calculator on Fat2FitRadio:

    http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/

    You want to eat a little more than you BMR and less than your TDEE (total daily energy expended [calories you burn with exercise]).
  • AABru
    AABru Posts: 610 Member
    BMR is the amount of calories your body would burn if you laid in bed all day. It is the base amount of calories you need to stay alive. If you are completely sedentary, you would eat under you BMR to lose weight. If you exercise, you eat back the calories you log in to make sure you have enough fuel to function. You don't want to exercise and not eat back calories, eventually your body will think you are starving and reset your BMR to lower.Just make sure you are accurately recording exercise and food intake.
    GOOD LUCK!
  • staceyb2003
    staceyb2003 Posts: 203 Member
    Your BMR is what your body would burn doing absolutely nothing and your maintenance calories is what your body burns through the day with normal daily activities. The way MFP does it, they deduct 500 calories from your maintenance calories for each day depending on how many calories you want to lose without going under 1200 calories. So if your maintenance calories are 1860 and you want to lose a pound a week you will be set at 1360 a day, leaving you at a 500 calorie deficit. The beauty of it is, MFP does all of this for you so you shouldn't have to do anything. I would search "eating your exercise calories" through the search at the top of this board. There is tons of information there. I hope this helps! :smile: :smile: :smile:
  • Reni421
    Reni421 Posts: 35 Member
    Thank you! So, would this be correct? If my BMR is 1395, and I burn 400 calories exercising, that day I should eat somewhere between 1395 and 1795? I was originally set at 1200 calories and that doesn't seem to be working for me so I am trying to figure this out - it seems to work for alot of people!

    After reading StaceyB's response I looked on MFP and checked the maintenance calories, and that is 2200, so does that mean I should actually be aiming for 1700 per day? This is where I am confused....
  • staceyb2003
    staceyb2003 Posts: 203 Member
    that would be correct if you are shooting for a pound a week. MFP set you for 2lbs a week that was why you were set at 1200 cal.
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