Calculez votre TDEE

Trois formules de MB, chaque niveau d'activité, un plan par objectif avec macros et une projection sur 12 semaines

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Estimations pour adultes en bonne santé, pas un avis médical. Si vous êtes enceinte, avez moins de 18 ans ou suivez un traitement, consultez un médecin ou un diététicien avant de modifier votre alimentation.

Dernière mise à jour: octobre 2, 2026

Les outils qui rendent les chiffres précis

Une estimation du TDEE ne devient votre vrai chiffre que si vous suivez apports et poids pendant quelques semaines. Ces trois outils simplifient la tâche.

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What Your TDEE Is Made Of

Total Daily Energy Expenditure is everything your body burns in 24 hours. It has four parts, and the biggest is the one you do nothing to earn:

BMR, about 60-70%

Basal metabolic rate: the energy to keep your heart, brain, organs and temperature running at complete rest.

Digestion, about 10%

The thermic effect of food. Protein costs the most energy to digest, fat the least.

Daily movement

Walking, standing, chores, fidgeting. It varies enormously between people and is the part most often underestimated.

Exercise

Planned training. For most people it is a smaller share of the day than they expect.

A calculator estimates BMR from your size, age and sex, then multiplies it by an activity factor that rolls the other three parts together. That is why the activity level you pick moves the answer more than anything else you enter.

The Three Formulas

FormulaBMR (kcal/day)Best for
Mifflin-St Jeor (1990)10 × kg + 6.25 × cm − 5 × age + 5 (men) or − 161 (women)Most adults; the best-validated general equation
Harris-Benedict, revised (1984)Men: 88.362 + 13.397 × kg + 4.799 × cm − 5.677 × age
Women: 447.593 + 9.247 × kg + 3.098 × cm − 4.330 × age
Comparison; tends to run a little high
Katch-McArdle370 + 21.6 × lean body mass (kg)Lean or muscular people with a reliable body-fat figure

The calculator shows all three so you can see how far apart they are for your body. For most people they land within 100-150 kcal of each other; a big gap usually means your build is far from average, which is exactly when Katch-McArdle earns its place.

Activity Factors

LevelFactorTypical week
Sedentary1.2Desk job, little or no exercise
Lightly active1.375Light exercise 1-3 days a week
Moderately active1.55Moderate exercise 3-5 days a week
Very active1.725Hard exercise 6-7 days a week
Extremely active1.9Physical job plus hard training

If you are between two levels, choose the lower one. Overestimating activity is the most common reason a calorie target "doesn't work".

Finding Your Real TDEE

Every formula is an estimate built from population averages; your true number can sit 10% either side. The way to find it is simple:

  1. Eat at the calculated TDEE, consistently, for two to three weeks.
  2. Weigh yourself each morning under the same conditions and look at the weekly average, not single days.
  3. If the average holds steady, that intake is your TDEE. If it drifts, adjust by about 7,700 kcal per kg of weekly change, divided by seven (roughly 1,100 kcal a day per kg, or 500 kcal a day per pound).

A kitchen scale makes the intake side accurate; eyeballed portions routinely run 20-30% over what people think they ate.

Limits of Any TDEE Estimate

These equations were built and validated on healthy adults. They are less reliable for teenagers, older adults, very high body-fat levels, athletes in heavy training, and anyone with a medical condition affecting metabolism, such as thyroid disorders. Pregnancy and breastfeeding change energy needs substantially. The 7,700 kcal-per-kilogram figure is a useful approximation, not a fixed law: early weight changes include water and glycogen, and the body adapts to sustained deficits. Use the numbers as a starting point, and talk to a doctor or registered dietitian for anything medical.

Comment nous calculons cela

Méthode
BMR by three published equations x activity factor; goal energy at 7,700 kcal per kg
Formule
Mifflin-St Jeor: 10W + 6.25H - 5A + 5 (men) / - 161 (women). Harris-Benedict (Roza & Shizgal 1984): men 88.362 + 13.397W + 4.799H - 5.677A, women 447.593 + 9.247W + 3.098H - 4.330A. Katch-McArdle: 370 + 21.6 x lean mass, lean mass = W x (1 - body fat %). W in kg, H in cm, A in years. TDEE = BMR x 1.2 / 1.375 / 1.55 / 1.725 / 1.9. Daily target = TDEE + weekly change (kg) x 7,700 / 7. Protein 2.0 / 1.6 / 1.8 g per kg (cut / maintain / gain); fat 25% of calories, minimum 0.6 g/kg; carbohydrates fill the rest.
Source
Mifflin MD, St Jeor ST et al., Am J Clin Nutr 1990;51:241-7. Roza AM, Shizgal HM, Am J Clin Nutr 1984;40:168-82. Katch-McArdle lean-mass equation (McArdle, Katch & Katch, Exercise Physiology). Activity factors are the standard multipliers used with these equations. Protein range from the International Society of Sports Nutrition position stand (1.4-2.0 g/kg) and later meta-analyses (up to about 2.2 g/kg in a deficit).
Limites
Equations predict resting needs for healthy adults and carry roughly 10% individual error. The calorie floor (1,200 kcal women, 1,500 kcal men) is common general guidance for unsupervised dieting, not a medical threshold. 7,700 kcal per kg is an approximation: early changes include water and glycogen and metabolism adapts to long deficits. The 12-week projection recomputes TDEE weekly at the projected weight (Katch-McArdle assumes body-fat % stays constant). Not for under-18s, pregnancy, breastfeeding or medical conditions.
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Foire Aux Questions

Total Daily Energy Expenditure is the number of calories you burn in a full day: your basal metabolic rate (the energy to keep you alive at rest, usually 60-70% of the total), plus the energy used by digestion, daily movement and exercise. Eat at your TDEE and your weight holds steady; eat below it and you lose weight, above it and you gain.

For most adults, Mifflin-St Jeor (1990) is the best-validated predictor and is the default here; studies found it within 10% of measured resting energy expenditure for more people than older equations. Harris-Benedict (revised by Roza and Shizgal in 1984) tends to run slightly higher. Katch-McArdle uses lean body mass instead of total weight, so it can be more accurate for very lean or very muscular people, but only if your body-fat estimate is good.

Most people overestimate. Choose by your whole week, not your best day: a desk job with three gym sessions is usually "lightly active", not "moderately active". If you are unsure, pick the lower level, track your weight for two to three weeks, and adjust. Your real TDEE is the intake at which your weekly average weight stays flat.

A common starting point is 500 calories a day below your TDEE, which works out to roughly 0.45 kg (1 lb) a week, using the rule of thumb that about 7,700 kcal equals 1 kg of body weight (3,500 kcal per pound). Larger deficits are faster but harder to sustain and cost more muscle. Without medical supervision, most guidance says not to go below about 1,200 kcal a day for women or 1,500 for men.

Because a smaller body burns less energy. Every kilogram lost lowers your BMR and the energy cost of moving, so a fixed calorie target becomes a smaller deficit week by week. The 12-week projection in this calculator recalculates TDEE at each new weight to show that slowdown. Recalculate every 4-5 kg lost, or whenever progress stalls for three weeks.

Research on active adults generally supports about 1.6 to 2.2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day, toward the higher end in a calorie deficit to protect muscle. This calculator uses 2.0 g/kg when cutting, 1.6 g/kg at maintenance and 1.8 g/kg when gaining, then sets fat at 25% of calories and fills the rest with carbohydrates. Treat those as a starting split, not a prescription.