TL;DR Do we have the same “maintenance calories” every day or does it depend on our activity level for that particular day?
24F, CW: 179, GW: 170. I workout at least three times a week but sit at a desk for most of the day.
Most weight loss apps (lose it included) ask about how active you are in order to calculate basal metabolic rate. So for example, when I select moderately active, the app tells me my maintenance calories are around 2300 but if I select sedentary it says maintenance is around 1900.
I’m trying to understand where this comes from. Is it on days that we’re more active, our maintenance calories are higher (because we’re burning more calories)? Or is it more general, so that even on a day we’re not active, our maintenance calories are still higher?
I ask because I wasn’t losing weight when I had moderately active selected, even though I was eating around 1900 calories and my maintenance was 2300. My theory was that since some days I was very active and other days I just sat around, that my maintenance wasn’t actually 2300 all the time. But I’m not sure if that’s actually how it works.
Thanks!
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