Hello all,
I've been on a seemingly perpetual healthy eating/diet for a few years...it has worked well for me so far.
A few years ago when I started, I weighed 284 lbs...I'm down to 202 lbs. My issue that the last few months, my weight loss has been slow (understandably so, I wasn't actually trying to lose anything when I hit ~220). Because of that, I have sort of stopped reading on weight loss, namely things like BMR, and how much to cut down etc.
My target is 184 lbs (100 lbs lost!)...I am a 25 year old male, 202 lbs, 5 feet 10 inches. I am a software designer, so my job involves a lot of sitting at a computer.
I do exercise 5 times a week, burning anywhere between 800 and 1200 calories per day (according to whatever cardio equipment I'm on).
Assuming I am doing NO exercise at all, just working at my desk job, what should be my maintenance caloric intake? I just think it's easier to calculate that and then subtract whatever I do at the gym. I remember reading somewhere on here that you can take your weight and multiply by 13 (or was it 11?) to estimate maintenance calories.
Thanks a lot! I was never an active poster here but I learned a lot from the many conversations that go on on this forum
I've been on a seemingly perpetual healthy eating/diet for a few years...it has worked well for me so far.
A few years ago when I started, I weighed 284 lbs...I'm down to 202 lbs. My issue that the last few months, my weight loss has been slow (understandably so, I wasn't actually trying to lose anything when I hit ~220). Because of that, I have sort of stopped reading on weight loss, namely things like BMR, and how much to cut down etc.
My target is 184 lbs (100 lbs lost!)...I am a 25 year old male, 202 lbs, 5 feet 10 inches. I am a software designer, so my job involves a lot of sitting at a computer.
I do exercise 5 times a week, burning anywhere between 800 and 1200 calories per day (according to whatever cardio equipment I'm on).
Assuming I am doing NO exercise at all, just working at my desk job, what should be my maintenance caloric intake? I just think it's easier to calculate that and then subtract whatever I do at the gym. I remember reading somewhere on here that you can take your weight and multiply by 13 (or was it 11?) to estimate maintenance calories.
Thanks a lot! I was never an active poster here but I learned a lot from the many conversations that go on on this forum
