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So all you have to do is accurately calculate/estimate TDEE and calorie inputs? Sounds hard.

vorpalhex 5y ago
It's about 10 mins and reading those large high contrast nutrition labels on your food. If you actually do find that too hard, pay someone for pre-portioned meals or go to a nutrionist.
- maxerickson 5y ago
  Reading the boxes will establish my TDEE? How does that work? Also, just keeping track of calories is a lot of work. I've done it before, it isn't hard in a mechanical sense, it's hard in the sense that you have to do it all the time, for everything you eat, for quite a while, before you really have a reasonable picture.
  - vorpalhex 5y ago
    You can estimate your TDEE in a few minutes using a tool such as https://tdeecalculator.net/ https://tdeecalculator.net/ And it takes about five mins from your day to track calories. Get a piece of paper, write calorie counts of food you are consuming on it. Stop consuming food when the total exceeds your desired caloric goal ( TDEE - speed of weight loss ). If that is genuinely too hard for you, there are a number of pre-portioned food programs you can get.
    - throw0101a 5y ago
      > You can estimate your TDEE in a few minutes using a tool such as https://tdeecalculator.net/ https://tdeecalculator.net/ Or spend some money at a sports clinic to get hooked up to a machine: * https://korr.com/metabolic-test-equipment/ https://korr.com/metabolic-test-equipment/ * https://www.parvo.com/trueone-2400/ https://www.parvo.com/trueone-2400/
adrianN 5y ago
You need very little accuracy in those measurement because you have a very accurate proxies that you can measure. The amount of food you eat and the weight on the scale. When the weight doesn't go down, eat less and move more. The only thing you have to do to be able to do this is tracking the amount of food you eat, for example by keeping a food diary and using a kitchen scale.

It's about 10 mins and reading those large high contrast nutrition labels on your food. If you actually do find that too hard, pay someone for pre-portioned meals or go to a nutrionist.

maxerickson 5y ago
Reading the boxes will establish my TDEE? How does that work? Also, just keeping track of calories is a lot of work. I've done it before, it isn't hard in a mechanical sense, it's hard in the sense that you have to do it all the time, for everything you eat, for quite a while, before you really have a reasonable picture.
- vorpalhex 5y ago
  You can estimate your TDEE in a few minutes using a tool such as https://tdeecalculator.net/ https://tdeecalculator.net/ And it takes about five mins from your day to track calories. Get a piece of paper, write calorie counts of food you are consuming on it. Stop consuming food when the total exceeds your desired caloric goal ( TDEE - speed of weight loss ). If that is genuinely too hard for you, there are a number of pre-portioned food programs you can get.
  - throw0101a 5y ago
    > You can estimate your TDEE in a few minutes using a tool such as https://tdeecalculator.net/ https://tdeecalculator.net/ Or spend some money at a sports clinic to get hooked up to a machine: * https://korr.com/metabolic-test-equipment/ https://korr.com/metabolic-test-equipment/ * https://www.parvo.com/trueone-2400/ https://www.parvo.com/trueone-2400/

adrianN 5y ago

You need very little accuracy in those measurement because you have a very accurate proxies that you can measure. The amount of food you eat and the weight on the scale. When the weight doesn't go down, eat less and move more. The only thing you have to do to be able to do this is tracking the amount of food you eat, for example by keeping a food diary and using a kitchen scale.