What's the website for how many calories you need?

[Bernadine]

wambam

[wambam]

iifym.com/tdee-calculator/

[cleo29]

What is the BMR? THe amount I should be eating to lose weight?

[wambam]

May 5, 2015 10:24:58 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

What is the BMR? THe amount I should be eating to lose weight?

BMR is the bare minimum number of calories your body needs to sustain life. This includes NO activity. This is the number you would need if you simply laid in bed and carried out basic metabolic processes. 

For fat loss, most people will subtract about 15% from the TDEE. 

[cleo29]

Ok. for MFP, I am set up with 1470 per day. My TDEE just came out to 2070.

[wambam]

May 5, 2015 10:28:27 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

Ok. for MFP, I am set up with 1470 per day. My TDEE just came out to 2070.

Using the TDEE method, you would want to be between 1650 and 1760.

[cleo29]

May 5, 2015 10:29:37 GMT -5 wambam said:

May 5, 2015 10:28:27 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

Ok. for MFP, I am set up with 1470 per day. My TDEE just came out to 2070.

Using the TDEE method, you would want to be between 1650 and 1760.

Really? I am not losing weight right now. I have been bouncing between 145.5 (once lol) and 148. :^)

[wambam]

May 5, 2015 10:31:38 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

May 5, 2015 10:29:37 GMT -5 wambam said:

Using the TDEE method, you would want to be between 1650 and 1760.

Really? I am not losing weight right now. I have been bouncing between 145.5 (once lol) and 148. :^)

I personally believe that MFP gives low, sometimes even dangerously low, recommendations. 

But that's just my opinion.

[amberlyrose]

May 5, 2015 10:31:38 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

May 5, 2015 10:29:37 GMT -5 wambam said:

Using the TDEE method, you would want to be between 1650 and 1760.

Really? I am not losing weight right now. I have been bouncing between 145.5 (once lol) and 148. :^)

Try adding in calories. I always lose when I'm around 1500 and struggle to lose around 1300. It's weird.

[cleo29]

May 5, 2015 10:35:32 GMT -5 amberlyrose said:

May 5, 2015 10:31:38 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

Really? I am not losing weight right now. I have been bouncing between 145.5 (once lol) and 148. :^)

Try adding in calories. I always lose when I'm around 1500 and struggle to lose around 1300. It's weird.

I was originally at a higher number, but I can't remember why it got lowered, and was losing more. I know I have added more muscle, but still, for the amount I work out, I feel like I should be seeing more movement on the scale.

[cleo29]

May 5, 2015 10:38:30 GMT -5 TR said:

May 5, 2015 10:31:38 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

Really? I am not losing weight right now. I have been bouncing between 145.5 (once lol) and 148. :^)

pandce.proboards.com/thread/443814/why-diets-work-never

This seems timely.

I am actually not cutting tons of stuff from my diet, but just being moderate. It is not realistic for me to forever cut out dessert or chips or other "bad" foods.

Definitely an interesting read.

[clseale]

Hey, wambam. When you look at stuff like this, do you just choose sedentary, and then figure out your exercise calories? My TDEE (with sedentary desk job) is 1412. If I select 5 days of exercise, it jumps to 1727, but exercise calories are going to vary so greatly. I just don't understand how that can be accurate.

[wambam]

May 5, 2015 10:46:13 GMT -5 clseale said:

Hey, wambam. When you look at stuff like this, do you just choose sedentary, and then figure out your exercise calories? My TDEE (with sedentary desk job) is 1412. If I select 5 days of exercise, it jumps to 1727, but exercise calories are going to vary so greatly. I just don't understand how that can be accurate.

I just use the number of days of exercise. You're right that exercise calories are going to vary, but I think over the average, it works out. So one day may not be the intensity and duration that is "right" but another day may be over. I don't typically think of things in terms of a day's worth of calories.

[Una]

For me personally, when I have some muscle I look better even though I weigh more. When I've been at a lower weight with no muscle, I look heavier. You need calories to build and maintain muscle. I go by measurements and how my clothes fit over the scale.

[cleo29]

I adjusted my daily intake to being "active" which gives me 1680 to work with a day. We shall see if this helps. I am just kind of stuck. I don't just rely on the scale, but the way things are fitting on me, which can be a big difference. For example, I am wearing jeans that I used to only wear when I weighed more than 10 pounds less than I do now, but they are fitting. A bit tightly, but fitting.