u/Dropelet

▲ 9 r/claude

Claude refuses to calculate my TEE (total energy expenditure)

I asked DeepSeek, providing my exercise plan, and DeepSeek didn't have a problem answering. I copied DeepSeek's response and sent it to Claude and asked to calculate it for me again, because often AIs give me different numbers and I want to compare them.

And now Claude says that my conversation has been flagged and he refuses to respond!! It's a conversation I had with model Sonnet 4.5, and now that's it's retired, it switched to Sonnet 4.6. Sonnet 4.5 never had a problem talking with me about ways how I can increase kcal intake, and calculating my TEE as my activity started increasing, so I knew how much more I need to eat.

FYI I do not want to restrict calories. I'm actively trying to increase kcal intake. I'm not trying to exercise to burn fat. I want to introduce simple and beginner exercises, chosen carefully, for the sole purpose of recovering from muscle atrophy.

I am recovering from malnutrition. I was eating too little all my life because my parents starved me as a kid and I got used to small amounts of food.

Last year I had cardiac symptoms caused by magnesium deficiency. I've been refeeding since.

It took me half a year to climb up from 1300 kcal to 2200 kcal per day. I try to eat more but due to slow gastric emptying, I'm still struggling.

My muscles are atrophied and I wanted to start easy resistance training to help rebuild muscle mass and I wanted Claude to calculate my TEE so then I would know how much kcal should I be eating

Now, why doesn't Claude see a difference?? He admitted to me in a chat that it doesn't make sense but the conversation got flagged and he can't respond.

Honestly, what the heck??

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