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Look, I am similar composition - 165 cm and was 80 kg few days before. I was also trying to eat as little as I can to lose (about 1200 cals) but felt so hungry and angry all the time! Then I decided to eat more, carefuly counted my BMR - 20% and was left with about 1600 calories a day (I am not excercising by the way).…
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Thank you all, its all clear now :smiley:
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You were right!!! It was an app error! I switched several times and now it gives mes 1370 for 0.5kg!! I can't believe I've wasted so much time calculating some error loool :smiley:
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Exactly! I will test and let you know
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Hi, thank you for your answer. The reason why i dont trust mpf is that if i set 0.5 kg loss a week it gives me 1200 calories. If i set 0.25 kg loss it gives me 1620. I mean, doesn't this look like very abstract, rough calculations? There are a few hundreds of diferrence between these number. And if I can lose weight more…
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Can someone else confirm ? :blush:
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Thank you so much. Thank you!
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Wow thank you for taking your time and writing all of this. I really apreciate this, very useful insughts. I recounted my calorie goal after reading this discussion and think that 1478 calories would be better approach. Exact counting is in a comment before. I hope I got this right now, cause I want to lose on a quite…
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Ok I think I finally found the right numbers. Based on this discussion, I count now like this: 1540 (just BMR) x 1.2 = 1848 (Maintenance) 1848 - 20% = 1478 (Eat this to lose) With THIS method, If I workout I should eat back workout calories. Right? :smiley:
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Yes I gave them all in the first post, just scroll all the way up and you will see :smile:
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Ok thank you everyone, so please assure me: if i counted maintenance - 20% = calories to lose weight, then I DO NOT eat back excercise calories. Right?
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www.aworkoutroutine.com/eating-back-calories-burned/ this was the article i've read regards the back eating, can someone comment? Thank you
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www.aworkoutroutine.com/eating-back-calories-burned/ this was the article i've read regards the back eating. What do you think?
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Are you saying that bigger persons can only lose on 1200 kcal diet?
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Am I ? I am not sure cause I calculated everything by reading an article
