Need help with calorie needs

dmwells3
dmwells3 Posts: 42 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
MFP has me @ 1320 for the day with light activity. This, they discribe as a sales person. I am a sales person, and I am walking 8 hours a day, 4 to 5 days a week. My BMR is 1542 to maintain, and waking 2mph for 8 hours burns 1509, for a total of 3351.

My question is, do I need to log some of my working day as exercise and eat it back? If I do not, that is a 2000 cal difference each day. I am not quite sure how that works. I don't want to starve my body, but I want to lose weight.

Thanks.

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  • ThePersnicketyOtter
    ThePersnicketyOtter Posts: 147 Member
    If you chose "light activity" for your activity level it is already figured in.
  • dmwells3
    dmwells3 Posts: 42 Member
    Thank you. I thought the calories were too low, so I had been eating some back and stalled. I will quite eating them back and stick with the MFP plan.

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