Ok i need some help :(

Ok i'll make this short, i've hit a plateau can't loose any more weight, i'm gonna try to up the amount I eat for a couple days.... whatever.  But i want to know how many calories i should actually take in to achieve weight loss.  I'm 20yo, 6'2" , and somewhere around 215, i exercise daily, usually including biking and running as well as some minor strength training ( I really only do enough to maintain muscle) so exactly how many calories do i need on a daily basis to loose weight, my goal weight is 195.

Your BMR is about 2160 and the burn tool says you burn 2600 as a sedentary person. Do you have a HRM? That would help you track your burn through the running, etc.

You might want to aim for a really small deficit, like 500 under your total burn. That way, if you are burning more (because of your muscle mass from weight training, for example) you should still fall under the 1000 cal deficit. Without knowing how much you generally burn with exercise, it's hard to say how much you should eat.

well I'm a big built person, I have a good bit of muscle mass, large boned (my wrist is 7in circumference) according to this site my BMR is around 3k cal (I have it set at light activity), I don't know what HRM is though? I don't believe i could really be burning 3k cal, or say 3.5 - 4k on a workout intense day. The other thing i don't understand is how to really calculate how much I burn during exercise, say on a bike ride if i go by the speed on average it's considered a moderate difficulty workout, but except for the up part of the hills, the ride doesn't seem to vigorous to me. This whole weight loss is almost more pain and difficulty than it's worth.

215 really isnt that high for your height and body size (you said you have a large frame) My brother is 6'3 and 180 and really thin (but he has the problem of not being able to hold onto weight lucky bastage) He is broad at the shoulders but very narrow at the hip (29" waist). Maybe instead of trying to lose weight you should try more strength exercises, So that what fat is on your body looks different, and not so flabby.

CC classifies you as "slightly" overweight. But they classified my 160 (my goal) as slightly over too... and its not, i also have a large frame, and i look kick a$$ at that weight, not too thin just right. If i were you I'd just focus on becoming stronger and not necessarily losing weight (and with more muscle your body fat percentage will change too, more impartant than BMI IMO)

According to my calculations:

Your BMR - 2058

Your RMR - 2470 at sedentary

Take 2470 + your exercise - 500 = what you should be eating on any given day

Just don't go below 2058

Ok guys and gals, thanks for the help now all I need to do is figure how to accurately log my exercise

Put the best estimates you can in the activity log. Only put in "light activity" if that is how you are when you are otherwise not exercising. If "light activity" includes the exercise you already do then you do not need to re-enter all that stuff. If you are inactive except during the exercise, and you want to log exercise, set you may think about setting your meter at sedentary and then logginf in your exercise on top of that.

Put your best faith estimate in the meter. The only reason to over-estimate the burn of your exercise is to justify eating more calories. This may may tend to lead a person to what they deem to be an unexplainable weight plateau.

HRM from an earlier post stands for Heart Rate Monitor.  I use one when I run and bike and I find it very motivating.  I set my weight and height and then during exercise it monitors my heart rate and gives me an estimate of calories burned. 

I have a polar F11 which I bought on Ebay for about $70.  It is a little bit of overkill with the features and I could probably get everything I need out of the Polar F6.  If you are a gadget kind of guy and decide to get a HR monitor, I would definitely suggest one with a chest strap instead of the ones you have to stop execising and take your pulse periodically.

Just a suggestion to help you get a more accurate handle on your calories burned.  My best estimates on CC are always much higher than what the HR monitor comes up with.