How Many Calories Do I Need?

Nutrition
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Hi all,

I’m one of those guys who’s always been a bit bigger, bit of a belly etc. I currently weight about 100kgs and just can’t drop this at all, and now I think I know why.

I became an idiot.

Diet is a mess, used to justify takeaways etc way too often and frankly it became a bit pathetic.

I’m now trying to come up with a proper diet plan for myself, using this website as a helping hand, but I’m confused…

I have always been under the impression that I’d need around 2000ish calories to survive, and so using this as a base I’ve been eating around 1800 calories a day (unless junk food happened) for quite a while. So I think I’ve screwed up my metabolism maybe but I don’t know. (goal is for fat loss / recomp mainly)

Using a DEE calculator (HealthStatus - How is Your Health? - HealthStatus) it’s now saying apparently I should be having over 3000 calories a day?!

I’ve become one of those people who has read too much, and not enough doing, I just want some advice now on how best to go forward. There’s too much conflicting information about.

TL;DR:

What’s an accurate way to estimate how many calories I should aim for per day and how should I split macro’s for the goal of ‘recomp’.

Appreciate any help on the matter, thanks.

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Answer is: read Nate miyaki and bill Roberts

https://www.T-Nation.com/diet-fat-loss/fat-loss-hierarchy

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Sex Goal Calories (kCal/lb) Protein (g/lb) Carbohydrates (g/lb) Fat (g/lb)
Male Recomposition 12.75 1.15 1.25 0.35

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[quote]craze9 wrote:
Sex Goal Calories (kCal/lb) Protein (g/lb) Carbohydrates (g/lb) Fat (g/lb)
Male Recomposition 12.75 1.15 1.25 0.35[/quote]

Thanks for the replies guys, I’m just gonna follow these and see how it goes, adjust as neccessary!

Craze can I confirm this is for lb of bw or LBM?