Machka9 wrote: » PS. If you eat your BRM amount ... you'll maintain your weight. You've got to eat lower than that to lose.
katem999 wrote: » Machka9 wrote: » PS. If you eat your BRM amount ... you'll maintain your weight. You've got to eat lower than that to lose. I'm still kinda new to this, so correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you mean tdee? Isn't bmr the amount your body burns just keeping you alive? Everybody who isn't in a coma burns more than their bmr, I'd expect.
Machka9 wrote: » Sorry, I don't know what TDEE is.
evillottie wrote: » Thanks for all your advice guys :-) MFP tells me I should be eating 1520 calories a day. I exercise in some form everyday (even if it is just walking my dog!) so if I aim for around 1700 (which is eating back some of my exercise calories) I should be about right? I've opened up my diary as well if anyone wants a peek :-) thanks again!
Machka9 wrote: » MFP tells me: "Your estimated BMR is: 1,346 calories/day" It told me that my BMR was more than that a couple months ago when I was heavier ... if I recall correctly it was about 1400 cal/day. And back then, MFP gave me 1250 as my max calories. As my weight dropped, my BMR went down, and so did my max calories ... down to 1200. I couldn't sustain that (too hungry), so I manually upped my max calories back to 1250, approx. 100 cal below my BMR. Then I add my activity on top of that ... so I might walk for an hour or go for a 4 hour bicycle ride or something. I add that into the exercise, and adjust the calories to be a bit lower than what MFP tells me. Then I may or may not eat some or all of those calories back. Whatever I decide to do each day, I'm netting less than 1250 calories/day. I have been quite happy with my weight loss. ~~~~~~~~~~~~All that said, what I meant was the number MFP provides you when you go into My Home > Goals and look in the column on the right under Your Diet Profile. There it tells me Calories Burned From Normal Daily Activity = 1,680 cal/day. I don't know what that is called other than "Calories Burned From Normal Daily Activity". Evidently I mistakenly called that BMR. From what I understand, if we go over that, we maintain or gain.