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My BMR is 1406 basal but with "lifestyle" which I checked as "seated some movement" it rises to 2320- Which should I count to get to my food budget? Okay, someone else will probably be able to answer this better but as I am the only one here right now, you get my take on it! If you figure out how much weight you want to lose, it will tell you how many calories to minus from the number. Like my BMR is 1834, but to lose 5 lbs in one month I have to minus 625 fewer calories than my body burns. So that makes it.. 1209, and then I get to add whatever calories I burn from exercise.. Does that make sense for you?

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Yep that's right on, except don't minus whatever you want to lose from your BMR, minus it from your # of calories burnt total (BMR + lifestyle) then add on anything you exercise off as Stephie said.

So say you want to lose 1 lb/week, you'd need to take off 500 calories a day (1 lb = 3500 calories). So you'd eat about 1820 calories/day. And if you can do exercise you can eat more - say you burn 300 calories at the gym, you could eat 2120 calories that day. And voila, you're calorie budget.

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