BMR

cshelto44
cshelto44 Posts: 26 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Can some one please explain to me my bmr?? I'm set at 1200 calories a day and my bmr is 1,502. I dont understand, its confusing to me!

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  • amnsetie
    amnsetie Posts: 666 Member
    Check your activity level and your goal pounds per week.
    If you are sedentary you may have to leave it at half a pound a week
    going under bmr is not good.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Eat at least your BMR. This tool on this site is a "Dumb" tool: it assumes you know a little bit about yourself.
  • hailzp
    hailzp Posts: 903 Member
    Your BMR is what you burn if you do not move at all through out the day. It was how many calories your body needs for the organs to work. If you work out your TDEE you can find out how many calories you burn in a day when you move around. I eat about 50-100 calories above my BMR and I am at a 500 calorie deficit. You could eat at 1550 and wait for a couple of weeks to see how much you lose. Eating more worked for me but you will get many different opinions.
  • rcharlee
    rcharlee Posts: 182 Member
    BMR is the amount of calories your body needs to survive at the basic level. The best example I've seen is, if you were in a coma that is the number of calories the hospital would put into you in order for your organs to function normally.

    So eating below your BMR is not wise. It slows your metabolism, and you are considered to be starving yourself.
  • PLUMSGRL
    PLUMSGRL Posts: 1,134 Member
    Please do yourself a favor and read this blog by a member of the MFP group "Eat More to Weigh Less":

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/lillebanon/view/my-take-on-eating-more-to-weigh-less-254554


    BMR is what your body would need in calories to SURVIVE if you were in a coma, so to eat less than that is basically unhealthy. I haven't figured out why MFP encourages people to eat less than BMR.

    The blog will give you some good sound information, NOT a quick way to loose weight, but to have a realistic fat loss.

    Good luck with your endeavors!
  • cshelto44
    cshelto44 Posts: 26 Member
    Thank you all, I guess I've got some reading to do.
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