Thursday, March 10, 2016

TDEE and confusing calculators.

I am male. SW 180. CW162. GW150. Currently eating between 1500 and 1700 calories.

I used to gym three times a week weight training since I started my diet and this has helped me lose the initial weight. Since I plateaued I decided to shake it up a bit, skip the lifting and do 2-3 miles of running at 7-7.5 miles per hour speed, every day of the week with one or two days off. I actually prefer running to lifting. Anyway this is all background information.

I realize I need to assess my TDEE again to be able to continue losing weight. Since I plateaued I figure its either because I am a) eating too much, which I don't think is the case (I am extremely meticulous in counting calories, to a fault sometimes). Or I am eating too little and the bod is in starvation mode. So I went online and looked at a TDEE calculator (several actually) and with my current activity level and amount of exercise I have a TDEE of about 25-2800 (or so the calculators say). Which would mean I should be losing weight at 1.5+ pounds a week. Is a TDEE that high accurate?

TL;DR -- My recalculated TDEE says I should be eating 25-2800 calories a day, I eat 1500-1700 a day and am not losing weight anymore. Is this TDEE being calculated incorrectly by the online calculators?

Thanks :)

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