Losing Calorie intake on my fitness pal...Help?

tlcmillet

So for the last 50 days my calorie intake suggested on here was an even 1400 calories, which I was happy about. Then all of a sudden this morning when I signed in it said 1360 a loss of 40 calories. How do I get them back and has this happened to anyone else? The more weight I lose does that mean I will get to eat even less food?

megsmom2

To keep losing, yes, your calorie needs will drop a bit. After all there's less of you now! But you can reset your calories manually if you want to.

khall86790

As you lose it should re-adjust so you keep losing. As you get smaller, your body needs less calories to function.

susannamarie

You probably clicked on something to re-calculate your goals. It will re-calculate them so that you continue to lose at the same rate -- for example, if you clicked on 'lose 1 lb/week', originally a 500 calorie cut was 1400, but now you have lost enough weight that 1400 is only a 460 calorie cut, so they've readjusted.

If 1400 is under your maintenance at goal weight, you can just continue to eat 1400. Your weight loss will slow, though.

tlcmillet

Okay, I see what you are saying but then how do you know what your maintenance calories are when you have lost all your weight. I still have 40 or more pounds to go?

susannamarie

Well, I found out what they would be by changing my weight to goal weight, setting MFP to 'maintain', then deleting that weight and changing it back to 'lose'.

heybales

Okay, I see what you are saying but then how do you know what your maintenance calories are when you have lost all your weight. I still have 40 or more pounds to go?

Go to Goals - read the summary page. Daily maintenance is your estimated based on your selection of activity level, and of course no exercise is included in there. That always gets added on later.
Now in diet, later in maintenance.

thistimesucess

When you hit maintenance you can recalculate under your settings. Interestingly for me, Mfp initially reduced the cals as I lost weight but at one point put my cal goal back up. I don't know if it happened to anyone else, I figure that at some pont your body has less fat to burn so you need more cals to compemsate - hope that makes sense,

tlcmillet

Thank you very much every one, this is helpful to know and really understand. Ia ppreciate everyone's time and knowledge. . Have a great day.

cmeiron

MFP bumped mine down once...I moved it right back to where it was. I was still losing at the same rate as always, so why eat less when I could eat the same amount and still lose?

(Later I discovered I could actually eat a LOT more and still lose, but that's a whole 'nuther thing :P)