
06/08/2025
❓What is TDEE and why should you care?
The TAKEAWAYS of total daily energy expenditure:
🟢 Exercise comprises the smallest amount of calories burned daily, which explains why you may be feeling frustrated that you’re spending so much time at the gym without significant weight loss.
🟡 TEF partly explains why everyone is telling you to eat more protein - it literally burns more calories just to digest.
🟠 NEAT takes up the majority of energy expenditure that you have control over. Walking, fidgeting, standing
- just not being sedentary - is a great way to sneak in more energy expenditure.
🔴 BMR is largely based on your genetics/ things you can’t control - height, weight, s*x. But gaining more muscle mass can increase this a bit (a pound of muscle burns ~3 times as much as a pound of fat).
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