Totally Confused on How Many Calories to Eat Per Day

@johnson2133 ’s advice gets my vote.

I recognize I’m beating a dead horse, but in case anyone else reads this, the “active” thing is not an insult.

When I was a rifle in the Army, I was extraordinarily active. When I was in staff jobs, I was not. I still ran hard and did PT for 90-120 minutes every day, so I didn’t want to think I was sedentary; I kept eating the same way, and soon I was the fat staffer.

Most our jobs a these days require us to be sedentary to be working hard - so it isn’t saying someone is lazy, it’s just dialing in a relevant assumption for these calculators to get as accurate a starting point as possible.

All that said, @johnson2133 nailed it anyway; whatever you’re eating now is your starting point, so just track that and adjust from there.

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Yup. Much of the notion of metabolism slowing down with age can honestly be attributed to US slowing down with age. We tend to be far more active as young bucks vs as we age, for, often, careers advance and require more desk time than foot time and when we eat like we did in our 20s when we’re in our 30s and 40s, we find the weight pile on. “My metabolism must have slowed down!”

Well maybe, but maybe we’re also just not burning calories like we used to.

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whats the goal to weight 165-170 lbs ? a