TDEE calculators are SCAM and do not work, don't bother with them! Here's far more accurate method!

AlexS
AlexS
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If a beginner asks ChatGPT, "What are my maintenance calories?", ChatGPT can give them a number. But ask how it arrived at that number, and it will usually explain that it used a formula like Katch-McArdle, Harris-Benedict, or Mifflin-St Jeor to calculate BMR, then layered activity on top using an activity factor, PAL, or MET tables.

Dig deeper and those formulas come from statistical regressions based on averages from past populations. That means maintenance calories calculated this way can be off by hundreds of calories.

TDEE calculators like Calculator.net or TDEECalculator.net use the same formulas, so they share the same limitation: unreliable estimates.

Then how to calculate maintenance calories with high accuracy?
Look into Adaptive TDEE (Maintenance Calorie) tracking!

Using this method you basically calculate the maintenance which is highly personalized and specific to your body and not to population average.

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