I have been a Weight Watchers member since January 2011, and was pretty successful with it...but lately I've been thinking that eventually, I'm going to need to try and do this "on my own", and to that end, I've decided that instead of counting points, I'm going to try counting calories for a while.
But I'm having trouble figuring out how many calories I need in a day! I feel kind of dumb, because it seems like it should be relatively simple to figure out, but...I mean, I am the QUEEN of Googling, but it seems like the more I Google, the more confused I get. BMR, TDEE....holy crap, I can't figure out exactly how to calculate my daily caloric needs, and how much I need to cut my damn calories in order to lose the weight!
Can someone help simplify this for me? What's more important -- BMR or TDEE? Which do I need to eat below in order to lose weight? Should I eat back my exercise calories, or not? GAH! Help! XD