Running TDEE, and modifying calorie goals. Topic

TreeFarmer 11/16/18
I have a spreadsheet originally made by /r/sun3 on reddit, and modified a few times since that does a running track of Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) Once a week I use this to modify my calories on MND.

However MND is a bit silly. I was working hard this week, putting the trees to bed for the winter, and have lost 2.5 pounds already just this week. And feeling it. This is too fast. So I raised my cals by 400, based on my actual TDEE. Now it thinks I won't reach my goal for another year.

My weights on the weight/time chart are well below the graph. What should be happening: I specify a target amount to lose, and a final date. MND knows that I can afford to lose weight a bit faster at the start, and this is plotted on the graph. But when I'm consistently below the graph, MND should say something like, "You're more active than your original plan suggested, and are losing weight too fast, and may be losing muscle as well as fat. You should increase your daily calories by X

MND doesn't have a good way to track NEAT -- non exercise activity thermogenesis. All the stuff you do outside your workouts. This is kind of subsumed in the activity level you put in when starting a plan up, but real life isn't like that, not for me anyway. I have days I'm out working most of the day, moving trees, cutting firewood. I have days when I sit in front of my computer. Some form of "Outside of your logged exercise, how much time did you spend on your feet today" or "Top 3 activities not at your desk today" Don't directly count these as calories, but factor them into the suggestion for the next adjustment to the plan.


Suggestion: Track TDEE, doing the calcs based on weights and calories. If the original stated goal is, say, 1 lb/week, then when it hasn't been this, suggest a correction to the daily calories.

Suggestion: Do the forecast not based on the original numbers, but rather on the actual results.

None of these work without several weigh points per week.

As a food tracker MND is great. Other functions are a bit weak.

Running TDEE, and modifying calorie goals.