What is TDEE ? What role does it play in Fat Loss ?
Fat Loss.The name by itself sounds dreadful to certain people.I had mentioned in a previous blog that total daily caloric intake has to be less than your base maintenance calories to initiate fat loss.How does the term TDEE fit into all this ?
What is BMR ? BMR is your Basal Metabolic rate.The amount of calories your body requires to maintain weight per day at rest.
What is TDEE ? TDEE is your Total daily Energy Expenditure is an estimation of how many calories your body burns per day taking exercise and other activities into account.
How to calculate your exact maintenance calories ?
The Base Maintenance calories has to be calculated by taking your TDEE into account.Below is a link to a calculator which gives a rough estimate of your maintenance calories taking TDEE into account.
How can TDEE be increased by external factors ?
What these calculators fail to do is also take into account your other activities throughout the day.Fat loss can be made easier by simply increasing your TDEE. For example instead of taking a bike to a nearby shop you can walk,instead of taking a car to the gym you can ride a bicycle.All these are nothing but activities which burn a few extra calories making your weight loss much easier to handle.Remember the more sedentary or less active you are, the less your maintenance calories and hence your fat loss becomes difficult and eventually you have to diet down/lose fat at insanely low calories.
Below are 2 images showing how many calories are burned simply through cycling and walking.Do note, even burning an extra 50 calories per day makes a huge difference in losing fat.
Next time you take a bike or a car to the gym,think again especially if you are loosing fat.And stop using a car to get to the gym just to do cardio.Makes no sense!