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Or how you selected a “moderate” activity level when it could just as easily be considered “light.”Īnd second, it will make you think the number you got is definitely the number you need. You’ll wake up in a cold sweat thinking about how you said you were 5’11 when you’re really more like 5’10 and half. First, it will drive you crazy wondering if you picked the right calculator or filled in your info correctly. Thinking of it as anything more than that causes two problems. It’s just a quick and easy way of getting a number that should (usually) be within at least some sane distance of the number you truly need. It’s NOT a completely accurate starting point, and it’s NOT a guaranteed end point. The only reason these calculators and equations exist is to provide you with an estimated starting point. That is… until now! Which Method Is The Best? The Definitive Answer!Īfter TONS of research, plenty of experimenting and untold hours of careful consideration, I have finally come to a definitive conclusion for which calorie calculator is the best. Which means, we still have no definitive proof as to which one is “the best” in terms of accuracy. I can also vaguely remember seeing a study once years ago showing that it was the most accurate equation out of the group it was compared against, with the only downside being that not all of these methods were actually in that group. That’s part of why the calculators I’ve created/recommended over the years (like the one used here) use The Mifflin-St Jeor Equation instead. However, I’ve always had WAY above-average calorie needs, so if a specific equation is accurate for me, chances are it’s going to be inaccurate for most other people. But I’d say that whenever you’re using some kind of calculator, there’s about a 99% chance it’s using one of these equations.įor me personally, The Harris-Benedict Equation has always been the closest. There are a few others as well, not to mention a few “less official” methods that various people have developed on their own based on their own experience. The most popular methods (or at least the first few that come to my mind) include… I bring this up only because “maintenance level” tends to be the term I most often use in the stuff I write.

So if your TDEE is 2500 calories, and you eat eat 2500 calories per day, you’re at maintenance and 2500 is your maintenance level. Basically, when you consume the same number of calories that you burn… you’re at your maintenance level. Maintenance Level: Your maintenance level is essentially the same thing as your TDEE, only from a slightly different perspective.

So it’s all of the calories your body burns per day doing everything. normal human movement, exercise, digestion/the thermic effect of food, NEAT, etc.).