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Originally Posted by Purdue FR-S
Are calorie calculators accurate? I've usually just googled "daily caloric needs" and worked from there. Often there are sites where you input height, weight, age, activity level (probably by far the most difficult to assess), but they never seem to have the same number in the end.
What resources do you use to determine this when dieting?
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You need to calculate your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate), and then you can adjust from there. There are plenty of calculators online for this.
Its basically to find out how many calories your body will burn by just basically doing nothing. So if you woke up and sat on your couch all day, you would burn "xxxx" amount of calories. This is your maintenance calories. So if you were to eat this amount everyday, and lets say do some cardio and burn off 200 calories twice a week, in theory you should lose weight. So by finding out what your BMR is based off your activity level will help you set the foundation of what you should be eating calorie wise to either maintain, gain, or lose weight.
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Originally Posted by stefmiesterb
The most important thing I learned through my 4 year journey is if you want to get big you have to always be eating and counting calories to make sure you hit your number. Eat a scheduled times during the day even if you're not hungry. Took me 3 years to realize this, lots of wasted time.
Went from 6' 150lbs at ~11% to 194lbs at 12% for reference.
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Do you have any proof of your 12%bf at your current weight now? Not taking anything away from you, but gaining 44 pounds of basically muscle is not common (naturally anyways).
A lot of people throw BF % out there and they really don't have any idea on what a real reading is, lol. Either way, good job gaining weight.
The idea of just "eating" to get big though doesn't always work. Really depends on what body type you have.